[mythtv-users] Setting up DVB-S (Error tuning to transport)

[Nes Yarug]

Hi.

I have a motorised satellite dish. With my satellite set-top box I can 
successfully point it to the different satellites by specifying the 
satellite's location.

Could someone please confirm the following:

I'm trying to setup a NEXUS-S DVB-S card. I have defined my capture card 
as dvb:0:

Card #: 0
Card name: ST STV0299 DVB-S
Card type: DVB-S
Disecq input type: Disecq v1.3 positioner (goto x)

This gives me 19 inputs. Do I understand correctly that each different 
satellite (Astra 1, Hotbird 1-5, Turksat 1C, etc) will connect to a 
different input? Because this is what I did:

I defined 3 different video sources "Astra 1", "Hotbird 1-5" and 
"Turksat 1C".

On the input connections screen I pointed Input1 to the Astra 1 video 
source, Input2 to the Hotbird 1-5 video and Input3 to the Turksat 1C 
video source.

Then I went to the Channel Editor screen, selected the Astra1 video 
source and let it scan for channels. I filled in a known transponder on 
the tuning screen (Note that I don't have any transponders defined under 
Advanced options on the Channel Editor screen because the tuning screen 
allows me to set these parameters as well and having one didn't make a 
difference). These are the tuning parameters:

Frequency: 11597000000
Symbol rate: 22000
Inversion: auto
FEC: 5/6
Polarity: Vertical

It then tries to find channels, but after a short period I get the 
following error message:

"Error tuning to transport".

However, the Signal strength and the Signal/noise bars were showing 
(both around 60/70%).

Here is the output from lsmod:

Module                  Size  Used by
dvb_ttpci              90036  0
dvb_core               78204  1 dvb_ttpci
l64781                  7300  1 dvb_ttpci
saa7146_vv             46272  1 dvb_ttpci
video_buf              19460  1 saa7146_vv
saa7146                15560  2 dvb_ttpci,saa7146_vv
v4l1_compat            12036  1 saa7146_vv
v4l2_common             6528  1 saa7146_vv
videodev                9280  1 saa7146_vv
ves1820                 5828  1 dvb_ttpci
stv0299                11464  1 dvb_ttpci
tda8083                 5572  1 dvb_ttpci
stv0297                 7936  1 dvb_ttpci
sp8870                  7052  1 dvb_ttpci
firmware_class          8704  2 dvb_ttpci,sp8870
ves1x93                 6404  1 dvb_ttpci
ttpci_eeprom            2432  1 dvb_ttpci
cx24110                 7812  0
fglrx                 277808  7
ftdi_sio               39364  1
usbserial              27888  3 ftdi_sio
8139too                21632  0
mii                     5184  1 8139too

And the dmesg output after the modules loaded:

Linux video capture interface: v1.00
saa7146: register extension 'dvb'.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:01.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem ffffc20000002000 (revision 1, irq 169) 
(0x13c2,0x000e).
DVB: registering new adapter (Technotrend/Hauppauge WinTV Nexus-S rev2.3).
adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:24:07:8e
dvb-ttpci: gpioirq unknown type=0 len=0
dvb-ttpci: info @ card 0: firm f0240009, rtsl b0250018, vid 71010068, 
app 8000261d
dvb-ttpci: firmware @ card 0 supports CI link layer interface
dvb-ttpci: Crystal audio DAC @ card 0 detected
saa7146_vv: saa7146 (0): registered device video0 [v4l2]
DVB: registering frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
dvb-ttpci: found av7110-0.

Excuses for the lenghty message, I hope someone can help me tuning the 
channels.

Kind regards,
Nes