On Sat, Dec 10, 2005, Oliver Endriss wrote: > Reinhard Nissl wrote: > > Yes, I read something like that in the VDR ML. But if VDR repeats the > > sequence on it's own, it is more tolerant to connecting the antenna > > cable at run time (at least in the case of DVB-S with a DiSEqC > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > You should not do that. It might kill the LNBP chip on your card. This is the first time I ever hear that. Where do you have this information from? (If it were true then manufacturers would have to do a lot of warranty repairs because of it, thus my doubts.) > > >>Is it therefore necessary to repeat FE_SET_FRONTEND too at an interval > > >>of 500 ms? IMHO this too short. I've seen cards lock on a signal after some seconds of zig-zag. If you restart tuning every .5s it might never get a lock. Johannes
