Mailing List Archive: Setting up DVB-S

Setting up DVB-S

Oct 29, 2006, 5:35 PM

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Hi all,

I just received my SkyStar2 cards today and put them in my Myth box to have a
play with. At this stage I know very little about DVB.

I've installed some DVB utils and tried to follow the guide at pvr.geek.nz.

I've been trying to follow the info on DVB-S setup at pvr.geek.nz without too
much luck so far.

A Sky installer came out and put a new dual LNB on our dish a while back so I
am assuming that the offset should be 10.75.

Trying to tune the card gives me this output ;

root@frog:~# dvbtune -f 1920000 -s 22500 -p v -m
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:0, Pol:V Srate=22500000, 22kHz=off
ERROR setting tone
: Invalid argument
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_CARRIER
polling....
polling....

the polling lines continue until a ^C. I got the 1920000 from 12.671 - 10.75 =
1.92.

Can anyone shed some light on what I may be doing wrong?

Cheers,

hads

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Re: Setting up DVB-S [ In reply to ]

stevehodge at gmail

Oct 29, 2006, 7:06 PM

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On 10/30/06, Hadley Rich <mythtvnz@nice.net.nz> wrote:
> I got the 1920000 from 12.671 - 10.75 = 1.92.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what I may be doing wrong?

The only obvious thing I can see is that 12671-10750=1921, not 1920.
Have you tried:
dvbtune -f 1921000 -s 22500 -p v -m

Cheers,
Steve

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Re: Setting up DVB-S [ In reply to ]

mythtvnz at nice

Oct 29, 2006, 7:22 PM

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On Monday 30 October 2006 16:06, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On 10/30/06, Hadley Rich <mythtvnz@nice.net.nz> wrote:
> > I got the 1920000 from 12.671 - 10.75 = 1.92.
> >
> > Can anyone shed some light on what I may be doing wrong?
>
> The only obvious thing I can see is that 12671-10750=1921, not 1920.
> Have you tried:
> dvbtune -f 1921000 -s 22500 -p v -m

Quite right! I forgot that the calculator I was using rounded automatically.

Unfortunately that didn't help matters, I'm still getting the same output.

Thanks for your input though.

hads

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Re: Setting up DVB-S [ In reply to ]

mythtvnz at nice

Oct 29, 2006, 9:14 PM

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On Monday 30 October 2006 14:35, Hadley Rich wrote:
> I just received my SkyStar2 cards today and put them in my Myth box to have
> a play with. At this stage I know very little about DVB.
>
> I've been trying to follow the info on DVB-S setup at pvr.geek.nz without
> too much luck so far.
>
> A Sky installer came out and put a new dual LNB on our dish a while back so
> I am assuming that the offset should be 10.75.
[snip]

I believe that it was a bad cable, I can now tune the card and retrieve a
channel listing with scan -c.

I always manage to overlook the simple things.

Now I just need to setup mythtv.

Cheers,

hads

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