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Message: <blockquote data-quote="clarkebelt" data-source="post: 1085674" data-attributes="member: 148422">Cool! (For those that don't - see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke_belt" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>).  And thank you very much for such an informative response!Ah, that's interesting.  If I understand what you are saying correctly, I would assume that each successfully scanned transponder is stored in a data file somewhere that also contains the DiSEqC and tone switch settings, and type of LNB?    Just out of curiosity, can that data be edited directly if some has a need to do so?I would like to avoid them, since I don't really understand exactly how they work or how to avoid unwanted settings from being used.Except I'm not seeing a way to set the 22 kHz tone off or on.Well that is kind of up in the air at the moment as I am just in the process of getting this system operational again.  That's why I'd kind of like to know how this works, so if I make changes in the future (very likely), I know how to change it here.  But right now, here is what I have:Moveable C-band dish connected to DiSEqC port 1, 5150 MHz, no tone switch.  I actually have a VBox positioner controller attached to it but recently replaced the LNB and for whatever reason we are getting much lower signal strengths than expected, so for the moment we have placed that on the back burner.  I actually haven't yet decided whether to park that on a single satellite most of the time, or try to connect the controller box to the tuner card and see if it can move the dish (in theory it should be able to, but that is not my top priority right now).  So for the moment just consider DiSEqC port one as C-band but not yet committed to a particular satellite.After that:107.3W, DiSEqC port 2, 5150 MHz, no tone switch (at present)125W, DiSEqC port 3, 10750 MHz, 22 k off99W, DiSEqC port 3, 5150 MHz, 22 k onDiSEqC port 4 is unused at this moment but we are planning to do this (this is all part of an ongoing summer project):103W, DiSEqC port 4, 10750 MHz, no tone switch (at least for now).Actually we may swap the dishes used for 125W and 103W because the one currently on 125W is a larger dish which I understand is necessary to successfully receive the signals from 103W.  But for now, that's how it is.Well, I have given you what I have at the moment.  Right now I am most concerned about DiSEqC port 3, which is the one with the 22 kHz tone switch on it.  I wish I could be more specific but as I say this is an ongoing project and things could change, particularly once I get the moveable dish working again.One thing I wish is that there was a way to scan satellites without permanently saving them so I can see what I can actually receive from them.  That might influence where the big dish winds up getting parked most of the time.  But at the moment I am not as concerned about that as I am about getting the two dishes connected to #3 working.Which you said is something I should try to avoid doing, and for the moment I'm still not quite completely understanding this.  I'm sure as I use this software more, how everything works will become more clear to me.  I'm a little slow to pick up new concepts (and software) sometimes.There is always the chance that someday I may want to add another dish and therefore a second 22 kHz switch on one of the other DiSEqC outputs, but I suppose that once I understand how to configure one, I can configure another if and when that occurs.  I have another Ku-band dish and LNB that I'm currently not using for anything.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Well I have done the best I can with that at the moment.  All my C-band LNBs are 5150 and all my Ku's are 10750, I avoid messing with "Universal" LNB's and such.Since you seem to understand this stuff, I have one additional question you might be able to answer.  I know that a tuner card can only receive one transponder at a time, but sometimes that one transponder can contain as many as a half dozen individual channels, or even more if some or all of them are standard definition.  Once I figure how to get scheduling and recording working, would MediaPortal have the capability to record more than one program from the same transponder at the same time, and if so, is there any setting that has to be changed to enable that?I will be checking those out.  Thank you again for such a complete and detailed response!</blockquote>

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