[mythtv-users] Satip - cannot change Diseqc position

[Klaas de Waal]

Hi Johan,

Can you please share how you start/configure your minisatip server in a
DiSEqC configuration?

Thanks,
Klaas.


On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 07:01, Johan Van der Kolk <johan.vanderkolk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Klaas,
>
> Whether or not it works on Disecq 1 or 1.1 switches depends on the
> implementation of the SatTIP server.
> Minisatip supports both versions.
>
> According to the documentation
> https://www.satip.info/sites/satip/files/resource/satip_specification_version_1_2_2.pdf on
> page 43 you’ll find that src is to be used to select a satellite position
> and its value is a numerical value between 1 and 255. So up to 255
> satellite positions are supported by the SatIp protocol.
> It’s up to the SatIP server to serve the satellite position based on the
> sent src value.
>
> thanks for looking in to this!
>
> Johan
>
>
> Op 30 nov. 2022, om 23:15 heeft Klaas de Waal <klaas.de.waal at gmail.com>
> het volgende geschreven:
>
>
>
> On Wed, 30 Nov 2022 at 19:58, Johan Van der Kolk <
> johan.vanderkolk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Been running a long time with standard DVB-S cards but thought to try my
>> luck with satip, now the new “capture card” is available in Myth 0.32.
>> So running 0.32/fixes on Ubuntu 22.04, compiled Myth the day before
>> yesterday from (git)source.
>>
>> Installed minisatip as a Sat->IP server, also a fresh compile, allocated
>> my 4 DVB-S tuners and ran a channelscan from mythtv-setup. That works fine.
>> However I have a triple LNB and need to use Diseqc 1.0 to change between
>> the satellites.
>>
>> The channel search on the SatIP capture card always sends a “src=1” to
>> minisatip, which means it always selects the lowest diseqc position (AA).
>>
>> How do I get mythtv-setup to send the src=2 and src=3 commands so I can
>> use the 2nd and 3rd DiseqC position?
>> For testing, I created a playlist for VLC for use with DiseqC position
>> “AB” (src=2) and that works fine.
>>
>> It’s probably hidden somewhere, but after 2 days of searching and trying
>> to assign different video sources I can’t seem to find how to.
>> Probably simple though once you know it.
>>
>>
>> MythTV SatIP does not support DiSEqC. It is an interesting feature and I
> am willing to look at it but I just did not know at the time that the
> "src=1"does select a DiSEqC position. Does that work only for the four
> channel switches or also for the sixteen channel DiSEqC 1.1 switches?
> Pointers to documentation would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Klaas.
>
>
>
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