On Mon, 14 Dec 2009, Michael Akey wrote: > I can't get the scan/scan-s2 utilities to lock any transponders (DVB-S). My > test satellite is AMC1 103W, the Pentagon Channel tp. This is probably some > simple user error on my part, but I can't figure it out. I have a Corotor II > with polarity changed via serial command to an external IRD. C/Ku is switched > by 22KHz tone, voltage is always 18V. Ku is with tone off, C with tone on. I'm afraid that I have a european background into which your use does not fit my expectations. What I expect is that the voltage will be determined by what sort of polarisation you are trying to receive (your fixed 18V would correspond to horizontally polarised transponders) whilst the 22kHz tone would be used to select within the Ku band between the low and high band (switchover between a universal LNB's 9750 and 10 600 MHz IF at actual frequency near 11 700 MHz). Variants thereupon may depend on older installations, and while C band does exist, I've never personally bothered to use it or play with LNBs and such to learn those details. With this background, I'll attempt to interpret what I see below. > $ ./scan-s2 -a 0 -v -o zap -l 10750 INIT > initial transponder DVB-S 12100000 H 20000000 AUTO AUTO AUTO > initial transponder DVB-S2 12100000 H 20000000 AUTO AUTO AUTO > ----------------------------------> Using DVB-S > >>> tune to: 12100:h:0:20000 > DVB-S IF freq is 1350000 This frequency would normally be tuned with 22kHz tone on, with a traditional Universal LNB. I can't be arsed to look up the particular bird on which your transponder lies to get its particulars (frequency 12100h, SR 20000 I will take from your parameters), but if this utility is selecting the 22kHz switching signal based on the frequency, it may assume that 12100 needs this tone, in spite of your specifying the LO intermediate frequency, which apparently you use to select between Ku band and when active, C band. > If I use dvbtune, it works though.. > > $ dvbtune -f 1350000 -p H -s 20000 -c 0 -tone 0 -m > tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:H Srate=20000000, 22kHz=off Here you're tuning directly to the IF frequency which the above utility determines from your specified LO value and desired tuning frequency. I'd look at the source code for the above utilities which fail to see if it's deciding 22kHz tone based on the tuned frequencies. If so, and there aren't options to work around this as you can with directly specifying the IF to `dvbtune' as above, then it may work to massage the input values you feed to `scan' not to be the actual frequencies. > The tuning file 'INIT' contains only the following line: > S 12100000 H 20000000 AUTO If this corresponds to 1 350 000 kHz IF, and you faked that your LNB had an IF of 9750 MHz, the corresponding ``tuning frequency'' would be 11 100 MHz, or 11100000 H in the above line. Horizontal polarisation corresponds to your 18V nicely. Otherwise it's a particular configuration which would be alien to me with my limited hands-on experience. Note that what you get back from parsing the NIT tables when tuning the above transponder at the hacked value would need to be again adjusted similarly. But I don't know what the frequencies and bands are that are used by this bird, nor do I know what sort of consumer equipment is used outside the part of the world where I learned my knowledge of the trade. Anyway, that's how I interpret your results. I'd be happy if someone with more intimate knowledge of those utilities, their options, and other setups, could give you a one-line cure for your woes -- otherwise I hope I've provided a bit of background to help you better understand what may be going on. -- 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
