[mythtvnz] Help with Skystar 2 PCI card

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, September 19, 2007 9:12 am, Steven Ellis wrote:
> Simon Green wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to get my Skystar 2 PCI card going, and have about as much
>> success as I did with the USB device. I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
>> (64 bit), and have a Sky dish that was installed three months ago. I
>> have the satellite cable plugged straight into the pci card (i.e. no
>> splitter yet)
>>
>> This is the output from dvbtune:
>>
>> simon@mythbox:~$ dvbtune -f 1733000 -s 22500 -p h -m

Actually a really good test of your card and LNB is 12519 H+V
(see http://www.lyngsat.com/optusd1.html for details)

At the moment Sky transmit on both H + V for this setting.

for my Universal LNB I'd run the following

mythtv@mythtv:~/dvb$  dvbtune -c 1 -t 1 -f 1919000 -s 22500 -D 0 -p h -m
Using DVB card "ST STV0299 DVB-S"
tuning DVB-S to L-Band:8, Pol:H 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: 140
Signal strength: 53316
SNR: 49560
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
A/V/TT Filters set
Signal=3D53037, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D49413dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D53721, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D49701dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D53426, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D49659dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)


and

mythtv@mythtv:~/dvb$  dvbtune -c 1 -t 1 -f 1919000 -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: 25339
Signal strength: 55650
SNR: 52494
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
A/V/TT Filters set
Signal=3D55721, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D52653dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D55718, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D52425dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D55137, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D52626dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)


The lack of Verror and BlockErrors means my LNB has the correct skew.

Steve


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