On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:59:03AM -0600, Philip Prindeville wrote: > I was hoping to get my SG-2100 rotor up and running, but looking > through the sources I don't see a lot of support for positioning... > > Perhaps I'm looking in the wrong places. I guess most people use > either a fixed dish and a single satellite, or a fixed elliptical dish with > multiple LNB's and a switch, each pointed at a separate satellite. > > Does anyone else use a rotor? How do they get by? > I do. I use a SG-2100 as well. I wrote my own little program by stealing code from dvb-apps about 2 years ago. I'm using the program for a FF 1.5 and a Skystar 2.6B: the drivers support DiSEqC very well. It's easy: you read the specs at eutelsat, and write your own small program for "GOTO", and the other things you might need. I did not supply the program to dvb-apps as I'm sharing code with a modified (old) version of szap and some other code snippets from dvb-apps: it's a big mess;-( With vdr, you should be able to define the needed DiSEqC commands very comfortably as well; I have not done this: I usually tell vdr that I have a fixed dish, but do the stearing with my helper program, if I have to (my dish usually needs manual fixing anyway, as it is mounted not very solidly on a balcony: I'm not allowed to install a solid dish here, and I have to readjust it after a move). Either 'my' program or anything else is disturbing my SG-2100 every now and then, though: it sometimes doesn't react on any command any more: I have to remove the motor from power for about 10 seconds before it reacts again. Wolfgang
