Hi<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Nick Morrott <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:knowledgejunkie@gmail.com">knowledgejunkie@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 14 December 2010 12:05, zito skeete <<a href="mailto:zorionmartin@googlemail.com">zorionmartin@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi<br>
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:42 AM, George Poulson <<a href="mailto:george.poulson@gmail.com">george.poulson@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> You don't say where in the World you are but as you mention Freesat and<br>
>> BSkyB I'm guessing you are in the UK and your dish is aligned towards Astra<br>
>> at 19.2 or 28.2'E (I am in the UK and I receive both on my standard 'Sky<br>
>> dish')<br>
><br>
> Sorry if in my haste that I didn't mention my location, yes I'm in the UK<br>
> and am indeed aware of the fact that the dish is pointing to one of the two<br>
> Astra satellites.<br>
<br>
</div>The Astra 28.2E cluster (2A/2C/2D) is all you need to point at for UK<br>
Freesat. Astra 19.2E is for continental Europe and you'll probably<br>
need a dish larger than 40cm (and motor) if you want to receive it<br>
well.<br></blockquote><div><br>The dish is for Astra 28.2E definitely, though there may be an Astra 19.2E that I'm not aware of.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>
As for the Freesat/BSkyB distinction - the free to air channels on<br>
Freesat are the same (as in the same stream of bytes received from the<br>
same transponder on the same satellite) as you'll receive via Sky, so<br>
don't worry about the names of the multiplexes you see during a scan.<br>
<div class="im"><br></div></blockquote><div><br>Should be no problem then.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="im">
>>> I live in a flat with shared dishes so can only just plug in the<br>
>>> satellite cable in one of the two feeds on wall.<br>
>><br>
>> As you effectively have a single fixed dish I would say you just need to<br>
>> set the 'DiSEqC' settings to just 'LNB' and 'Universal (Europe)'<br>
><br>
> Same thing I did as in method #1 listed in my original post and for that I<br>
> just get a "Failed to find any channel" popup in mythtv-setup. In any case,<br>
> I will attempt to do it over again later this week as I'm missing a few<br>
> accessory. I will also attempt to get a more verbose error log from<br>
> mythtv-setup as the previous one didn't output anything significant.<br>
<br>
</div>Based on the fact kaffeine works, I still think you have an LNB<br>
misconfiguration. If you reopen mythtv-setup after your normal DVB-S<br>
configuration procedure, does the LNB status show "Connected"? If it<br>
doesn't, it needs to be fixed before you'll be able to receive<br>
anything.<br>
<br>
LNB setup has been a long-time problem with DVB-S configuration (IME<br>
and based on following this list) - the mythtv-setup rewrite should<br>
hopefully make configuration a lot simpler.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>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:<br>
<br>
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)" <br><br>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.<br><br>Thanks for the input <br>best regards,<br>
zs.<br></div></div>