Re: Re: [dvbtools-devel] dvbtune-0.5 inverts diseqc pol and band bits

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Zoilo Gomez wrote:
> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>> Nico Sabbi wrote:
>>> Zoilo Gomez wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> The Diseqc-specs at
>>>>>> http://www.eutelsat.com/satellites/pdf/Diseqc/Reference%20docs/bus_spec.pdf
>>>>>> (table on page 13) confirm that dvbtune is in fact sending the
>>>>>> wrong command.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> With a patched dvbtune (pol-bit and band-bit both inverted) it
>>>>>> works OK, and is also according to the Eutelsat specs.
>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have attached a patch for you.
>>>>
>>>> The problem is only in dvbtune (version 0.5); you may not have been
>>>> using dvbtune (dvbtools); dvbscan and szap (linuxtv-dvb-apps) do not
>>>> suffer from this problem.
>>>>
>>>> Z.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> diff -Naur dvbtune-0.5.orig/tune.c dvbtune-0.5/tune.c
>>>> --- dvbtune-0.5.orig/tune.c    2004-02-06 15:00:36.000000000 +0100
>>>> +++ dvbtune-0.5/tune.c    2007-04-30 21:22:53.000000000 +0200
>>>> @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@
>>>>      * bits are: option, position, polarizaion, band
>>>>      */
>>>>     cmd.cmd.msg[3] =
>>>> -       0xf0 | (((sat_no * 4) & 0x0f) | (hi_lo ? 1 : 0) | (pol ? 0 :
>>>> 2));
>>>> +       0xf0 | (((sat_no * 4) & 0x0f) | (hi_lo ? 0 : 1) | (pol ? 2 :
>>>> 0));
>>>>  
>>>>     diseqc_send_msg(secfd, pol,
>>>>             &cmd, hi_lo,
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I disagree with your changes:
>> according to the specs that you linked the fields are:
>> *switch-number
>> *switch option
>> *satellite position
>> *polarization
>> *frequency_is_in_hi_band
>> *bytecode
>>
>>
>>                         1 A A V Lo F0
>>                         2 A A V Hi F1
>>                         3 A A H Lo F2
>>                         4 A A H Hi F3
>>                         5 A B V Lo F4
>>                         6 A B V Hi F5
>>                         7 A B H Lo F6
>>                         8 A B H Hi F7
>>                         9 B A V Lo F8
>>                        10 B A V Hi F9
>>                        11 B A H Lo FA
>>                        12 B A H Hi FB
>>                        13 B B V Lo FC
>>                        14 B B V Hi FD
>>                        15 B B H Lo FE
>>                        16 B B H Hi FF
>>
>> assuming that in the code "pol" stands for "pol_is_vertical" and that
>> "hi_lo" stands for "hi_band" ( frequency above SLOF) and counting bits
>> from 8..1
>> - the last bit must be set to 1 when hi_band is 1
>> - the forelast bit (0x2) must be set when the polarization is
>> horizontal (this polv is 0).
>>
>> Please, explain why you believe that the current code is incorrect
> 
> Not so much a matter of believe, but of results.
> 
> My switch was not working, and selecting the wrong input. Hence I looked
> into the source, put some printfs and found that the DiSEqC command
> being sent was incorrect, i.e. different from the table above. So I
> changed the code, then it was working correctly.
> 
> Perhaps it would be better to change the code in the calling function;
> your opinion that (hi_lo==1) means high band seems logical, but in that
> case the value being passed to the function is wrong.
> 
> (pol==1) meaning "vertical" seems somewhat more ambiguous to me, perhaps
> a better name would be "vpol" (in which case however the calling
> function is sending the wrong value, inverted) or hpol (in which case
> it's OK).
> 
> Z.
> 
> 

can someone with a DVB-S card checkout the SVN version of rb-download
from here:

svn checkout https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/redbutton/

and tell me if it works, because I cut'n'pasted the diseqc code from
szap too

ta!

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