[mythtv-users] Failed to find any channel (DVB-S)

[zito skeete]

Hi

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 14 December 2010 12:05, zito skeete <zorionmartin at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM, George Poulson <
> george.poulson at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> You don't say where in the World you are but as you mention Freesat and
> >> BSkyB I'm guessing you are in the UK and your dish is aligned towards
> Astra
> >> at 19.2 or 28.2'E (I am in the UK and I receive both on my standard 'Sky
> >> dish')
> >
> >  Sorry if in my haste that I didn't mention my location, yes I'm in the
> UK
> > and am indeed aware of the fact that the dish is pointing to one of the
> two
> > Astra satellites.
>
> The Astra 28.2E cluster (2A/2C/2D) is all you need to point at for UK
> Freesat. Astra 19.2E is for continental Europe and you'll probably
> need a dish larger than 40cm (and motor) if you want to receive it
> well.
>

The dish is for Astra 28.2E definitely, though there may be an Astra 19.2E
that I'm not aware of.


>
> As for the Freesat/BSkyB distinction - the free to air channels on
> Freesat are the same (as in the same stream of bytes received from the
> same transponder on the same satellite) as you'll receive via Sky, so
> don't worry about the names of the multiplexes you see during a scan.
>
>
Should be no problem then.


> >>> I live in a flat with shared dishes so can only just plug in the
> >>> satellite cable in one of the two feeds on wall.
> >>
> >> As you effectively have a single fixed dish I would say you just need to
> >> set the 'DiSEqC' settings to just 'LNB' and 'Universal (Europe)'
> >
> > Same thing I did as in method #1 listed in my original post and for that
> I
> > just get a "Failed to find any channel" popup in mythtv-setup. In any
> case,
> > I will attempt to do it over again later this week as I'm missing a few
> > accessory. I will also attempt to get a more verbose error log from
> > mythtv-setup as the previous one didn't output anything significant.
>
> Based on the fact kaffeine works, I still think you have an LNB
> misconfiguration. If you reopen mythtv-setup after your normal DVB-S
> configuration procedure, does the LNB status show "Connected"? If it
> doesn't, it needs to be fixed before you'll be able to receive
> anything.
>
> LNB setup has been a long-time problem with DVB-S configuration (IME
> and based on following this list) - the mythtv-setup rewrite should
> hopefully make configuration a lot simpler.
>
> I will attempt to do so later. In all cases the LNB status showed
"Unconnected". I have a question though, what exactly do I need to do to fix
the LNB status? Do you mean the 2nd method that I listed in my original
post, i.e:

Capture card -> DiSEqC in the configuration of the capture card ->
"(Unconnected)" -> switch -> switch Type - DiSEqC, number of port 2 -> ESC
-> "(Unconnected)" -> LNB from the list (switch, rotor, LNB) -> "Universal
(Europe)"

The dish is not accessible to me since I live in a shared flat, so I cannot
do anything wrt LNB on the dish itself.

Thanks for the input
best regards,
zs.
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