DVBViewer and TBS 8920 (S2) Diseqc Problem

[mydan]

Hi there,

 

I bought DVBViewer last night - recommended by my DAD He has a Hauppauge Nova S2-HD which worked perfectly a 2 port diseqc switch which he gave me.

 

I bought the TBS 8290 S2 card though (For no other reason than it was cheaper!) I have a simple two LNB setup on one dish - one at 13E and one at 28E). My satellite receiver swaps between port 0 and port 1 easily.

 

I did a search on the forum and a guy reported something similar - but it's a different problem I have, I think. 28E is on port 0 - which will scan and find 804 channels using POS A OPT A. When it comes to trying to scan Hotbird on port 1, using POS B OPT A, it finds 103 for BSkyB, POS A OPT B find 92 channels, all BSkyB and POS B OPT B finds 92 all bSkyB, but I am sure yesterday when I did a scan or two I found a few (only around 60 or so) CYFRA+ channels. Today I can't find any.

 

Further info:

WIndows 7 x64

Latest TBS 8920 Driver - 1.0.5.3

 

Chipset: NVIDIA nForce 590 SLI AMD - Latest NVIDIA nForce Driver

Graphics: NVIDIA 9500GT - 8.17.11.9621

 

Can anyone advise me what to do to get it working - if at all?

 

Thanks

 

Dan

support.zip

[Griga]

What about TransEdit (installed according to your support.zip)? Same problem?

[mydan]

hi there,

 

Equally unpredictable unfortunately. However once, after having tried most DISEQC options first, I tried selecting NONE and I started getting hotbird results in right from the first frequency. So immediately I thought "Great, Sky is Simple A / POS A OPT A, and Hotbird will be None. But closing Transedit and reopening and choosing None didn't find anything second time around. I have yet to get it to show them since.

 

A little painful this one!

 

Dan

[Griga]

I tried selecting NONE and I started getting hotbird results in right from the first frequency.

None means no DiSEqC command at all. Strange... the options that you have tried before must have switched to Hotbird.

 

Maybe it's a communication problem between the DiSEqC switch and your card, or a timing issue... sometimes cases like this can be handled by using the DiSEqC Editor (also available in DVBViewer Pro). Set DiSEqC to "Extended" and enter something like

 

Switch - Committed - 2

Internal - Delay - 500

Switch - Committed - 2

 

which means, the DiSEqC command for B/A will be sent twice with 500 ms delay in between.

 

For no other reason than it was cheaper!

Now you have to pay in a different way... it costs a lot of time.

[mydan]

The Switch, Delay Switch, didn't work. But as it made me understand the function of Extended, I tried a few others - Switch 2, Switch 2 (Uncomitted each time) with no delay made it work flawlessly.

 

So it found 1623 channels on Hotbird.

 

And DVBViewer swaps between both flawlessly.

 

PERFECT support Griga. Many many thanks