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<blockquote data-quote="jj32257" data-source="post: 234655" data-attributes="member: 63341">Dman,Let me help explain what his (and my) problem is:A popular switch (at least in the United States) is a 22 kHz multi-switch.&nbsp; It allows you to connect, say, 8 receivers to two different LNBs.&nbsp; Each LNB has two outputs.&nbsp; On the switch there are 4 connections for the LNBs.&nbsp; The first two go to one LNB and the third and forth go to a second LNB.&nbsp; Each cable run to a particular LNB is dedicated to either H or V.&nbsp; The switch itself sends 13V on one of the cables always and 18V on the other, always.&nbsp; The receiver selects H or V by either&nbsp; sending 13V (requesting the V feed) or 18V (requesting the H feed).&nbsp; There is also a 22 kHz tone that the receiver can send.&nbsp; If the tone is continuously absent the switch routes the receiver to LBN1 and if the tone is continuosly present you get LNB2.&nbsp; Simple, effective, rock solid reliable.The short verson of his question:On the standalone media portal install there is the option to choose 22 kHz tone for each LNB you have active.&nbsp; On the server version there is no such option therefore people who own this kind of switch can't choose which LNB they want to get data from.Typically with every other piece of software I've used you can choose a LOF1 LOF2 and switch frequency and the way you force the tone is by choosing a low switch frequency which then generates the tone we need and operates our switch.&nbsp; Media portal server does have this but it doesn't have it for EACH LNB.&nbsp; The way we'd normally config things in other software is&nbsp; the LNB that doesn't need a tone we'd pick a high switch frequency and on the one that does need the tone we'd pick a low switch frequency.&nbsp; End result is we get or don't get a tone so we can get routed to the correct LNB.Does that make more sense to you?The easiest way in the world to program this would be a checkbox for 22 kHz tone on or off for each LNB as exists in the standalone version.J</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jj32257, post: 234655, member: 63341"] Dman, Let me help explain what his (and my) problem is: A popular switch (at least in the United States) is a 22 kHz multi-switch. It allows you to connect, say, 8 receivers to two different LNBs. Each LNB has two outputs. On the switch there are 4 connections for the LNBs. The first two go to one LNB and the third and forth go to a second LNB. Each cable run to a particular LNB is dedicated to either H or V. The switch itself sends 13V on one of the cables always and 18V on the other, always. The receiver selects H or V by either sending 13V (requesting the V feed) or 18V (requesting the H feed). There is also a 22 kHz tone that the receiver can send. If the tone is continuously absent the switch routes the receiver to LBN1 and if the tone is continuosly present you get LNB2. Simple, effective, rock solid reliable. The short verson of his question: On the standalone media portal install there is the option to choose 22 kHz tone for each LNB you have active. On the server version there is no such option therefore people who own this kind of switch can't choose which LNB they want to get data from. Typically with every other piece of software I've used you can choose a LOF1 LOF2 and switch frequency and the way you force the tone is by choosing a low switch frequency which then generates the tone we need and operates our switch. Media portal server does have this but it doesn't have it for EACH LNB. The way we'd normally config things in other software is the LNB that doesn't need a tone we'd pick a high switch frequency and on the one that does need the tone we'd pick a low switch frequency. End result is we get or don't get a tone so we can get routed to the correct LNB. Does that make more sense to you? The easiest way in the world to program this would be a checkbox for 22 kHz tone on or off for each LNB as exists in the standalone version. J [/QUOTE]

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