[mythtvnz] DVB-S + Sky

[Hadley Rich]

On Monday 18 December 2006 16:36, Steve Hodge wrote:
> So, you have a splitter with two outputs, A and B. If you have A plugged
> into Sky and B unconnected it works, but if you connect B to the SkyStar
> card A stops working, right? And if you swap so that A is plugged into the
> SkyStar card it stops working when you plug B in? If that's the case I'd
> suspect a faulty splitter.

It's something to do with the Skystar, I can swap the outputs of the splitter 
around quite happily and get the same result (i.e. plugging the Skystar into 
either kills Sky on the other).

I can also plug the input cable directly into the Skystar card (i.e. no 
splitter) and get no signal. I've also got a spare Skystar card and have 
swapped that out too just in case the card died.

So there is possibly some sort of error in my configuration, which is odd as I 
haven't touched it lately.

I've just been playing a little more and Sky works (watching from the second 
STB output) with mythbackend stopped, but cuts out as soon as mythbackend is 
started or I try a dvbtune or something (see output below).

root@frog:~# dvbtune -f 1921000 -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....

Odd.

hads

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