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

[Per Jørgensen]

On 15-12-2010 07:34, zito skeete wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Nick Morrott 
> <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com <mailto:knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 14 December 2010 12:05, zito skeete
>     <zorionmartin at googlemail.com <mailto:zorionmartin at googlemail.com>>
>     wrote:
>     > Hi
>     > On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM, George Poulson
>     <george.poulson at gmail.com <mailto: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.
There is a Astra on 19,2
Anstra on 26.2E
Hotbird 0n 16E
Caurse I have all those in my setup up and running an working.


>
>
>     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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I have 3LNB on a 4p DiSeQ
port 1 --> HotBird 16
port 2 --> Astra 19,2
port 3 --> Unconnected
port 4 --> Astra 26,2 E

And getting almost 11000channels on this setup!

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