petasis Posted September 14, 2008 Share Posted September 14, 2008 Hi all, I have bought a skystar HD2 a month now, and I am unable to control part of my satellite installation with it. Techinsat technical support is not helpful at all, and I don't know what else to do. It all comes down to: Does the skystar HD2 support diseqc 1.1? Technisat said it does, but I cannot make it work... The dish is a wavefrontier T90, with 8 LNBs, installed by a professional installator. All 8 LNBs are connected to a 8->1 switch from maximum. The switch is this: http://www.kjaerulff1.com/catid.216/pid.796/82.aspx The manual that came with the switch claims that the switch supports diseqc 1.0, 1.1 & 1.2: http://www.ellogon.org/~petasis/nova/Diseq...tch-English.png Now with DVBViewer: I can see the first 4 switch inputs with diseqc 1.0. All my attempts with diseqc 1.1 failed. And with diseqc 1.2 I had mixed results. Using diseqc 1.2, I declared the switch as a "positioner". I was able to see the inputs from 5-8, but it was really unstable. I was able to see input 5 using "position 5" for example, without storing anything in this position. But it was impossible to see inputs 1-4, no matter what "position" I selected. Then I tried to build a "mixed" channel list: the 4 first satellites using diseqc 1.0, and the last 4 using diseqc 1.2. It worked partially: I was able to switch channels inside a "group" (i.e. the first 4), but I had to restart DVBViewer to tune channels from the second "group". Once I used diseqc 1.0, diseqc 1.2 stopped working, and the opposite. So, my final test was to use diseqc 1.1. As there is no support for this in DVBViewer, I used the diseqc editor. Taking as starting point the post: http://www.DVBViewer.info/forum/index.php?...mp;#entry116033 I tried to setup a command to see LNB 8. All my attempts failed. No matter what uncommitted switch command I used, I could switch only the first 4 inputs. I am out of ideas Does anybody know a solution? What may be the problem? Is it DVBViewer? Is it the drivers? (driver details: Technisat Mantis BDA HID Device version 1.0.1.5, Technisat Mantis BDA Receiver 1.1.0.402, all date 25/1/2008), Is it the hardware? Is skystar HD2 a good card? Maybe it was a wrong choice and I should buy something better? Its a pity to have 8 lnbs and be able to see only four of them... Quote Link to comment
petasis Posted September 14, 2008 Author Share Posted September 14, 2008 Here is the support zip... support.zip Quote Link to comment
petasis Posted September 26, 2008 Author Share Posted September 26, 2008 Finally, the solution was simple: I used as DiseqC the value "Use Positioner", and in the USALS entry beneath the values: INPUT 1 -> Position 0 INPUT 2 -> Position 1 INPUT 3 -> Position 2 INPUT 4 -> Position 3 INPUT 5 -> Position 4 INPUT 6 -> Position 5 INPUT 7 -> Position 6 INPUT 8 -> Position 7 Quote Link to comment
wickham Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hello, I did what you wrote in the last post. It works. DVBViewer can find all 8 satellite and can scan as well. When I change channels from one satellite to the another I can see nothing only that the quality is strong enough. After restarting DVBViewer starting with the last channel everithing ok. It means for me any time when I change satellite I should restart DVBViewer. Does it happend with you? How did you solve it? thx, wh Quote Link to comment
farzad goli Posted October 23, 2009 Share Posted October 23, 2009 can not work for me support.zip copy to there? i work DVBViewer 4.0.0 and diseqc 1.1 and sky star hd2 and canot scan sat 2,3,4,..... please help me Quote Link to comment
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