[mythtv-users] Diseqc problem with SG2100 rotor and MythTV

[Gert-Jan de Boer]

On zo, 2007-06-10 at 10:35 -0400, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 16:34 +0200, Gert-Jan de Boer wrote:
> > The rotor turns on its own scale to around 17.
> > I have pointed the rotor so that 19.2 points to 19.2.
> 
> I'm a satellite newbie, but my manual said to find a satellite
> as close to pointing directly South as possible (in the Northern
> hemisphere), then turning the rotor so that it should be
> pointing in that direction (in my case it turned 1 degree) and
> then fine tuning. If you are at 22 degrees you should try to
> find a satellite in the range 21-23 to point to even if it
> doesn't have the strongest signal or any programming you are
> interested in. (Oh, and this is Geographic South you want,
> where I am the Geographic and Magnetic South poles differ by
> about 14 degrees.)
> 
> Anyway, I'm using SVN head and there degrees in MythTV using
> GOTOX match where the rotor points.. I don't think this has
> changed since 0.20-fixes either.
> 
> FYI The scale on the rotor will usually not match the longitude
> of the Satellite, since your longitude is likely not zero.
> (Live in the Greenwich? :)
> 
> -- Daniel
> 
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I'm at 6 degrees south. My manual said to turn with Diseqc to the
nearest satellite with the lowest power (in my case Sirius at 5 east)

Then I needed to turn the rotor until I got an image on my TV. To my
knowledge 19.2e on the scale must be the 19.2e satellite.

Besides: my setup worked for 3 years with a Dreambox DM500 and a MVision
receiver using USALS (Diseqc 1.3)