[mythtv-users] DVB-S2 scan fails (0.29)

[UB40D]

On 24 December 2017 at 04:15, Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz>
wrote:

> On Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:27:51 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >By the sound of Mike's suggestions I probably haven't quite got the
> drivers
> >for the cards working yet.
> >
> >As I wrote elsewhere in this thread, it would be useful to have a simple
> >way to test that the card works before attempting to make it work with
> >myth. The moral equivalent of "let me play this video with VLC and see if
> I
> >hear any audio" before spending hours trying to get the audio
> configuration
> >screens of myth to produce sounds when the fault was misconfigured drivers
> >or bios or amplifier or whatnot.
>
> Yes, from those logs I would suspect the card is not working properly
> yet.  I have a script I use to scan the transponders on my satellite
> (Optus D1), which is a good way of testing if the card is working.  It
> produces a list of all the channels on all the transponders.  I have
> put a copy here on my web server:
>
> http://www.jsw.gen.nz/mythtv/skynz-satellite-scan.sh


Thanks a lot for this. The card is almost working now, as I just wrote in
another message in this thread, but a test script like yours is definitely
something I'd want to have in my arsenal of debugging tools so I'll give it
a go next.
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