Hi, On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:39:05PM +0200, Alex Betis wrote: > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 11:10 PM, Artem Makhutov <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to setup VDR to receive from 2 different sattelites. > > > > Currently I have 3 DVB-S cards in my VDR box, and all are connected > > to a single dish pointing to astra 19.2E. > > What LNBs do you have on those dishes? If all of them have single output > LNBs than you're probably causing problem. > All cards provide voltage/current for LNB to work, so now your LNB gets 3x > times more current than needed. > Also, I'm not sure what happen when one card tries to tune on vertical > transponder, while another will try to tune on horizontal transponder. One > of them will not succeed for sure. > > > > I have installed a second dish pointing to Sirius 4.8E and would like > > to connect this dish to VDR. > > > > Is it possible to connect one of the DVB-S cards directly to the > > second dish and setup VDR somehow to use this one DVB-S card only > > to receive channels from Sirius and not trying to use it to tune to > > Astra channels? > > Don't know. I use Diseqc > > > Later on I would like to install one Diseqc switch, so that one of > > the cards can switch between the two sattelites. Is this possible > > with only one Diseqc switch, or must I use 3 Diseqc switches and > > connect all of my DVB-S cards to the two dishes? > > Normal installation would be to connect your 2 dishes (actually LNBs) to > diseqc inputs and feed disecq output to your card. > If you want to have more than 1 card to record multiple programs at the same > time, you'll need LNBs with multiple outputs where several diseqs should be > connected to outputs from different LNBs and outputs from every diseqc > should be connected to different cards. Thanks for you answer. But I was was actually looking for the Sourcecaps patch. Best regards, Artem _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr
