[mythtvnz] DVB-S + Sky

[Steven Ellis]

On Mon, December 18, 2006 1:56 pm, Hadley Rich wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know if anything has changed overnight with regard to Sky o=
r
> something?
>
> I have a Skystar 2 and Sky running from the same cable with a splitter.
> Since
> this morning I need to unplug my Skystar2 to get signal on the Sky box,=
 as
> soon as I plug in the Skystar card the Sky box goes immediately to the
> rain
> fade screen.

Just done a signal strength test on both the B1 transponder, and a random
D1 transponder and it appears to be OK. Script and output below.

If you want to run this you might want to adjust the frequency as my LNB
has a LO of 10600, and most people have an LNB with an LO of 11300.

Steve


dvbtune -t 1 -f 1883000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p v -m
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:8, Pol:V Srate=3D22500000, 22kHz=3Doff
ERROR setting tone
: Invalid argument
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Bit error rate: 6911
Signal strength: 54536
SNR: 51750
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
A/V/TT Filters set
Signal=3D54373, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D51777dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D54442, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D52689dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D54520, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D52776dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)


dvbtune -t 1 -f 1820000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p v -m
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:8, Pol:V Srate=3D22500000, 22kHz=3Doff
ERROR setting tone
: Invalid argument
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS:
polling....
Getting frontend event
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Bit error rate: 8986
Signal strength: 52765
SNR: 51075
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
A/V/TT Filters set
Signal=3D52952, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D51078dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D53078, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D51255dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D52907, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D51174dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D53082, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D51159dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)



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