[linux-dvb] Support for rotors?

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I also have a SG2100 motor and know of the 'lockup' behaviour your'e
talking about. Check your cabling - my SG2100 only does that when I
switch cables with the power turned on, and while connecting the
cable, the voltage would fluctuate up and down a little bit - this
seems to confuse the motor and it doesn't respond to anything until
you remove power for 30 seconds or a minute. If this happens without
you moving any cables around, I'd check your ends - you could have one
strand of shield shorting occasionaly to the center conductor or
something.

Andrew

On 8/31/05, Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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