[mythtvnz] Broken DVB-S setup

[Noel & Diane]

And yes, I'd try a complete power-off shutdown of the system first like
Steve suggested.  Sometimes strange things happen when the system is
surreptitiously powered down :-o

-----Original Message-----
From: Nick & Ann Read <nick.read at engineer.com>
Reply-to: MythTV in NZ <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
To: mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz
Subject: Re: [mythtvnz] Broken DVB-S setup
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 23:26:46 +1200


OK did some more testing. If I 'Watch TV' on the Satellite input, if 
shows 71% signal strength with SBS (Vertical?) and 53% with Freeview 
channels (Horizontal I think). But S/N of 4.5 dB in all cases. BE was 
originally zero, but after playing with LNB settings to try and wake 
something up, I am now getting BE of 3k-40k reported (after restoring 
the LNB settings). If I remove the cable from the LNB to the DVB card, 
signal strength drops to 0% but S/N stays at 4.4dB.

So, anyone want to guess if its the card or the LNB that's broken? I'm 
tempted to get a new DVB-S2 card cause that's easiest, but its $100 that 
I don't want to spend if the problem is the LNB...

Nick


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