Well, post the code if you could... I'll have a look at it and see about bringing it up to date... Does the motor still stop responding, even after sending a reset (e0 00 00) to it? -Philip w-thiel@xxxxxxx wrote: >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 > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > >
