Diseqc bug? (1 Viewer)

[mylle]

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Hi,

I just found a weird issue that i have not seen before.

I have a dvb-s card connected to a 4 port diseq switch. Normally the ports a numbered as this

port1 = AA
port2 = AB
port3 = BA
port4 = BB

This is also how they are numbered if you look at the dvb-s card properties eg. where you set if you are using a diseq switch or not and how many ports you are using.

BUT

If you look under at a specific dvb-s channels properties in the channel manager its different.

Here it reads.

port1 = AA
port2 = BA
port3 = AB
port4 = BB

My problem shows if i scan afther channels on diseq port 2 (AB). The scan completes fine and finds all the expected channels BUT if you look under the properties of the channels just found they will read as BA where they actually should be AB as when they were scanned, and when trying to tune the channels does not work.

Has anybody seen this?

I have attached a couple of pictures that shows this behaviour.

regards
Jacob

 

[willemx]

Yes!
I have seen this in my setup too. I even looked in the logfiles to see what codes are actually sent to the cards and I noticed that also there the wrong codes are being used. I can live with this however; I just swapped the antenna cables in my disecq switch to "fix" this problem.
regards,
Willem

 

[willemx]

This week I have reinstalled my system, including the antenna dish with Diseqc switches and I have rechecked the Diseqc settings.
I am using Triax 4/1 switches which have clear indications (AA AB BA BB) on the antenna connectors.
(If these indications are correct, then )MP must definitely be using the wrong codes. If I let MP tune to a channel that is on a sattelite on the AB position of the switch, I must set the Diseqc code in MP to BA and vice-versa. Even though in the MP logfile it says that the AB code is sent, actually the BA code was sent.
The AA and BB codes are sent correctly.

 

[morpheus_xx]

AW: Diseqc bug?

please post complete tvserver logfiles. best with a channel scan included.

 

[willemx]

TV Server logs...

 

[gibman]

I've looked into the issue. I have 4 lnb's myself.

If you compare the 2 dropdown lists containing the diseqc info you will see that they are inconsisten in regards to the "right" sequence of the contents listed.

In the code we have this enum:

 public enum DisEqcType
  {        
    <snip>
    Level1AA = 3,    
    Level1AB = 4, 
    Level1BA = 5,    
    Level1BB = 6,
  } ;

when u scan a channel using diseqc, you should ideally look in the tuningdetails SQL table and look up the diseqc integer value.
Does it correspond well to the ENUM above ?
This is what the tuning logic retrieves and uses.

so the dropdown in "edit tuningdetails" under setuptv is merely wrong, it should reflect the sequence listed in the enum above.
although fixing this just tells the end-user the correct diseqc details.
which it should

edit:
fix has been added to svn.
mantis : http://mantis.team-mediaportal.com/view.php?id=3008

as to why the "port2 = AB" scanned channels do not work for u I currently dont know.
could u check that SQL tuningdetails reports diseqc=4 in this case ?



/gibman

 

[mylle]

I've looked into the issue. I have 4 lnb's myself.

If you compare the 2 dropdown lists containing the diseqc info you will see that they are inconsisten in regards to the "right" sequence of the contents listed.

In the code we have this enum:

 public enum DisEqcType
  {        
    <snip>
    Level1AA = 3,    
    Level1AB = 4, 
    Level1BA = 5,    
    Level1BB = 6,
  } ;

when u scan a channel using diseqc, you should ideally look in the tuningdetails SQL table and look up the diseqc integer value.
Does it correspond well to the ENUM above ?
This is what the tuning logic retrieves and uses.

so the dropdown in "edit tuningdetails" under setuptv is merely wrong, it should reflect the sequence listed in the enum above.
although fixing this just tells the end-user the correct diseqc details.
which it should

edit:
fix has been added to svn.
mantis : 0003008: setuptv - tuningdetails : diseqc dropdown contains wrong items. - MediaPortal Bugtracker

as to why the "port2 = AB" scanned channels do not work for u I currently dont know.
could u check that SQL tuningdetails reports diseqc=4 in this case ?



/gibman

Thanks alot for fixing this even though the bug might have just been cosmetic

Everything DID work before, I was just changing so many things at once that i somehow screwed it up.

Everything is working fine.

Regards
Jacob

 

[danzka]

AW: Diseqc bug?

Hi,
I hope this is the right place..

I miss the entry "9/10" in the InnerFecRate dropdown at the tuningdetails.
On a scanned channel the parameters seems to be correct and the channel tunes fine, but I can't edit or add a channel manualy.
If I open the details of a scanned FEC 9/10 channel the dropdowns InnerFecRate, Pilot and Roll-Off shows an empty entry..

An export of one of these channel shows this:
<TuningDetails>
<tune IdChannel="195" IdTuning="195" AudioPid="0" Bandwidth="8" ChannelNumber="195" ChannelType="3" CountryId="31" Diseqc="0" FreeToAir="False" Frequency="11914000" MajorChannel="-1" MinorChannel="-1" Modulation="31" Name="Sky Sport HD 1" NetworkId="133" PcrPid="0" PmtPid="98" Polarisation="1" Provider="SKY" ServiceId="129" SwitchingFrequency="11700000" Symbolrate="27500" TransportId="6" TuningSource="0" VideoPid="0" VideoSource="0" AudioSource="0" IsVCRSignal="False" SatIndex="-1" InnerFecRate="14" Band="0" Pilot="1" RollOff="3" Url="" Bitrate="0" />
</TuningDetails>

 

[gibman]

Re: AW: Diseqc bug?

Hi!

This has already been fixed and committed in:
0002853: Adding and editing channels does not match MP channel handling. - MediaPortal Bugtracker

/gibman

Hi,
I hope this is the right place..

I miss the entry "9/10" in the InnerFecRate dropdown at the tuningdetails.
On a scanned channel the parameters seems to be correct and the channel tunes fine, but I can't edit or add a channel manualy.
If I open the details of a scanned FEC 9/10 channel the dropdowns InnerFecRate, Pilot and Roll-Off shows an empty entry..

An export of one of these channel shows this:
<TuningDetails>
<tune IdChannel="195" IdTuning="195" AudioPid="0" Bandwidth="8" ChannelNumber="195" ChannelType="3" CountryId="31" Diseqc="0" FreeToAir="False" Frequency="11914000" MajorChannel="-1" MinorChannel="-1" Modulation="31" Name="Sky Sport HD 1" NetworkId="133" PcrPid="0" PmtPid="98" Polarisation="1" Provider="SKY" ServiceId="129" SwitchingFrequency="11700000" Symbolrate="27500" TransportId="6" TuningSource="0" VideoPid="0" VideoSource="0" AudioSource="0" IsVCRSignal="False" SatIndex="-1" InnerFecRate="14" Band="0" Pilot="1" RollOff="3" Url="" Bitrate="0" />
</TuningDetails>