On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: > Oliver Joa wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006, Richard Lithvall wrote: >> >>> Oliver Joa wrote: >>> >>>> hi, >>>> >>>> i want to use astra and hotbird, but i don't know how. what is the >>>> easiest way? at the moment i have a quad-lnb for astra and two dvb-s >>>> cards. i wanted to by a additional lnb for hotbird and put it together on >>>> the satellite dish. but how do i have to connect it to the computer? >>> >>> >>> Use one diseqc per receiver (DVB-S card). >> >> >> and if i have a third card. does vdr know which card can use diseqc and >> which not. is it possible to configure this? > > The easiest way to have full support for multiple sat positions > and multiple DVB cards is to use a multiswitch. yes, but i want to save money. i need hotbird only for 1 or 2 channels and only very seldom. a multiswitch is very expensive and need powersupply. thanks olli
