Hello Jelle,
> My w_scan version 20081106 stopped working on my Debian system. I had
> the following errors:
> ERROR: Sorry - i couldn't get any working frequency/transponder
>
> So I first checked if there was a wscan update.
No reception for some reason - probably the new version will show the
same result.
> I had to make a new argument line:
> ~/.wscan/wscan -t 3 -A 1 -E 0 -O 0 -c NL -X tzap >
~/.wscan/channels.conf
"-A 1" is wrong for you, please omitt this one, it's used outside Europe
only.
"-O 0" is default anyway, not needed
> This is very troubling for me because I must have a scan command that
> works in complete Europa and not in one country. This is because I have
> traveling systems that need to scan for channels on every stop.
>
> Why :-( please explain and try to fix this regression that a country
> code is needed?
w_scan tends to be used now to be used also in other countries - with
different settings
- frequency lists
- frequency offsets from center frequency
- Symbolrates
- channel bandwidths
- Modulations ( QAM_128 for example in FI, QAM_64 and QAM_256 otherwise )
At the beginning w_scan was made to work in Germany only. But with the
time more and more additions were made
and at some point one has to find a compromise. Either prolong scanning
time to be endless, omitt new features or change command line options.
If you need the some behaviour working in many european countries, you
may simply use "-c DE". It will give nearly the same result as the old
versions.
> I was hoping for auto signal strength detection and automatic filtering
> depending on the signal strength to remove duplicated channels from
> different broadcast towers.. what work is being done to realize this,
> and can I help by donating resources?
As soon we have dvb drivers which give some reliable and *comparable*
signal strength information
signal information *across all frontends* this would be possible, not
earlier. But i guess it will never happen.
Best Regards,
Winfried
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