[mythtv-users] Scanning dvb-s Nova-S Plus

Nick Morrott knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 21:45:59 UTC 2008


On 29/06/2008, Paul <thannet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 19:56 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote:
>  > On 29/06/2008, Paul <thannet at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > > Hi
>  > >  I'm fighting in the dark here, not found any reference that I could
>  > >  understand to setup these two tuner cards. So far I think I am doing the
>  > >  following properly, but assume I am not by the error message.
>  > >
>  > >  paul at vs:~$ scan
>  > >  -a3 /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E
>  > >  > .szap/channels.conf
>  > >  scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E
>  > >  using '/dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter3/demux0'
>  > >  initial transponder 10773000 H 22000000 5
>  > >  initial transponder 11778000 V 27500000 2
>  > >  WARNING: frontend type (OFDM) is not compatible with requested tuning
>  > >  type (QPSK)
>  > >  WARNING: frontend type (OFDM) is not compatible with requested tuning
>  > >  type (QPSK)
>  > >  ERROR: initial tuning failed
>  > >  dumping lists (0 services)
>  > >  Done.
>  >
>  > Are you sure that /dev/dvb/adapter3/ is your DVB-S card? Do you have 4
>  > DVB tuners in the system? Numbering starts from zero, and so far you
>  > have mentioned only the Nova-T 500 and the Nova-S Plus.
>  >
>
>
> Hi Nick, thanks for the response, I have one Nova-T 500 and two Nova-S
>  plus, so in effect I have 4 tuners. Will read into your reply when I am
>  more awake tomorrow.

Right - you should have /dev/dvb/adapter[0-3], but there's no
guarantee which order the devices are created. I would check your
dmesg/syslog to ensure that /dev/dvb/adapter3 is a DVB-S adapter and
not a DVB-T one.

-- 
Nick Morrott

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