[mythtvnz] Help with Skystar 2 PCI card

[Steven Ellis]

On Wed, September 19, 2007 12:31 pm, Hadley Rich wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2007 12:20:32 Steven Ellis wrote:
>> 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
>
> Are you trying to turn on tone with that "-t 1"? If so it should be "-t=
one
> 1".
> The man page is incorrect and therefore so are most examples you see
> around
> the 'net.
>

Thanks for that hads. Anyway with my universal LNB it works fine without
"-tone 1", although with that argument removes the Invalid argument error=
..

mythtv@mythtv:~/dvb$ dvbtune -c 1  -f 1856000 -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: 4965
Signal strength: 51273
SNR: 54816
FE_STATUS: FE_HAS_SIGNAL FE_HAS_LOCK FE_HAS_CARRIER FE_HAS_VITERBI
FE_HAS_SYNC
Signal=3D51183, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D54810dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)
Signal=3D51178, Verror=3D0, SNR=3D54771dB, BlockErrors=3D0, (S|L|C|V|SY|)




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