VDR User wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:55 PM, Manu Abraham <abraham.manu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> * At the peak, you will get the maximum quality >> * falling down the slope to the left and right you will get falling >> signal strengths >> * Still rolling down, you will get increasing ERROR's, with still >> UNCORRECTABLES being steady. >> * Still falling down at the thresholds where you are about to loose >> frontend LOCK, you will see UNCORRECTABLE's getting incremented. >> >> Couple this logic into a program, with a feedback to the ROTOR and >> you get an automated satellite positioner, with a good fine tuned >> position. > > This would make for a very very useful tool to have. I can't count > the number of times I've seen people inquire about tools to help them > aim their dish and this sounds like the perfect solution to that long > standing problem. Especially if it returned the network id once it's > achieve a lock so the user can see if he's pointed to the correct > satellite. If you have a motor and you are able to automatically peak satellites, the only thing missing is a program to find all the signals automatically, including the ones which are turned on and off in a matter of minutes. Just google for *blindscan* (and maybe my name) to find a utility I wrote years ago and abandoned after failing to get the corresponding mt312-autosymbolrate kernel patch integrated. Next step, automatically upload found signals on some site, maybe including a frame from the received video stream and let users comment/moderate interesting ones on a sort of forum. :-) Hmmmm, feeds... Best regards. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
