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[raj3664]

ive figured out a way to do it.. if i move the dish to a better signal and change the settings straight away to diseqc then the dish doesnt move again and the stronger signal is locked and working! i am a happy chappy haha! thanks everyone for your help! much appreciated

raj

[gerard0610]

Dear ‘rhinoceros’ and others.

First my compliments tot rhinoceros, all the OpenPLi members and other people how support the improvement and expanding of the options.
This is great job, Thanks.

I am actual studying all the info and test actual all the possibilities

I am now notice something what I can’t explain.
If I use the Autofocus option in combination with my VBox this option is operating Oké (so with DISEqC 1.2 -stored positions)

However if I am using the option Autofocus in combination with my DiSEqC rotor (configuration in OpenPLi as USALS) the rotor is indeed moving. But after several steps it ends always with the message ‘Can not determinate the west-limit’
If I look under the Info/EPG button I see a strange thing which could be the cause of this Phenomenon.
I see that:
the Lokatie noorderbreedte’/ ‘Location north latitude’: 50.8 north
the location ‘westerlengte’/ ‘location south latitude’: 5.1 east
Bezig met autofocus …. enz. (performing autofocus ..)


Strange: These are the value’s which OpenPli is default mention in there settings (see my remark below).
But I have defined in OpenPLi in menu – Instellingen – Zenders zoeken – Tuner configutatie – TunerX – Selected here:
-the Locatie ‘noorderbreedte’/ ‘Location north latitude’: 5x.xx north
-the location ‘westerlengte’/ ‘location south latitude’: x.xx east
So other values because I live somewhere else.

Could this be the cause that the Autofocus is not popper working in combination with a DiSEqC rotor defined with USALS?

[rhinoceros]

raj3664, on 1 April 2012 - 11:53, said:

hey guys

ive installed the new positoner setup but i am still having trouble moving the dish manually.. when i enter the positoner setup and manually move the dish to get a better signal it finds the signal and locks it but when i exit i find that the dish has moved again and retrieved the old crappy signal or no signal in most cases. I am just wondering if i missed anything? any help would be appreciated.

thanks
raj

It seems your dish is not perfectly aligned. Neither is mine, by the way. I guess it will be rare to find such perfect setups. Don't worry. It is for this situation that I put in the 'Calibration'. What you should do is press that button. When the measurement is finished, write down the correction calculated and use that to correct your actual geoposition that you entered in the tuner configuration. You can then do a Calibration again to verify that your signal is now the same as what you determined with 'Autofocus'.

Or you could switch to using Diseqc 1.2 for a single, several, or all satellites and store the positions individually. As you wish.

[rhinoceros]

gerard0610, on 5 April 2012 - 17:19, said:

Dear ‘rhinoceros’ and others.

First my compliments tot rhinoceros, all the OpenPLi members and other people how support the improvement and expanding of the options.
This is great job, Thanks.

I am actual studying all the info and test actual all the possibilities

I am now notice something what I can’t explain.
If I use the Autofocus option in combination with my VBox this option is operating Oké (so with DISEqC 1.2 -stored positions)

However if I am using the option Autofocus in combination with my DiSEqC rotor (configuration in OpenPLi as USALS) the rotor is indeed moving. But after several steps it ends always with the message ‘Can not determinate the west-limit’
If I look under the Info/EPG button I see a strange thing which could be the cause of this Phenomenon.
I see that:
the Lokatie noorderbreedte’/ ‘Location north latitude’: 50.8 north
the location ‘westerlengte’/ ‘location south latitude’: 5.1 east
Bezig met autofocus …. enz. (performing autofocus ..)


Strange: These are the value’s which OpenPli is default mention in there settings (see my remark below).
But I have defined in OpenPLi in menu – Instellingen – Zenders zoeken – Tuner configutatie – TunerX – Selected here:
-the Locatie ‘noorderbreedte’/ ‘Location north latitude’: 5x.xx north
-the location ‘westerlengte’/ ‘location south latitude’: x.xx east
So other values because I live somewhere else.

Could this be the cause that the Autofocus is not popper working in combination with a DiSEqC rotor defined with USALS?

Thank you for your kind words and for reporting this issue. This looks like a bug. I will try to reproduce it. However, to better understand your setup it would help me if you could post here your settings file (/etc/enigma2/settings). If you need help to do that let me know, please. If you see your geoposition in that file you can replace it with xx since I don't need that information.

[rhinoceros]

rhinoceros, on 6 April 2012 - 07:35, said:

gerard0610, on 5 April 2012 - 17:19, said:

However if I am using the option Autofocus in combination with my DiSEqC rotor (configuration in OpenPLi as USALS) the rotor is indeed moving. But after several steps it ends always with the message ‘Can not determinate the west-limit’
If I look under the Info/EPG button I see a strange thing which could be the cause of this Phenomenon.
I see that:
the Lokatie noorderbreedte’/ ‘Location north latitude’: 50.8 north
the location ‘westerlengte’/ ‘location south latitude’: 5.1 east
Bezig met autofocus …. enz. (performing autofocus ..)


Strange: These are the value’s which OpenPli is default mention in there settings (see my remark below).
But I have defined in OpenPLi in menu – Instellingen – Zenders zoeken – Tuner configutatie – TunerX – Selected here:
-the Locatie ‘noorderbreedte’/ ‘Location north latitude’: 5x.xx north
-the location ‘westerlengte’/ ‘location south latitude’: x.xx east
So other values because I live somewhere else.

Could this be the cause that the Autofocus is not popper working in combination with a DiSEqC rotor defined with USALS?

Thank you for your kind words and for reporting this issue. This looks like a bug. I will try to reproduce it. However, to better understand your setup it would help me if you could post here your settings file (/etc/enigma2/settings). If you need help to do that let me know, please. If you see your geoposition in that file you can replace it with xx since I don't need that information.

I seem to be unable to reproduce this problem. I tried 'simple', 'advanced no usals' and 'advanced usals' in Tuner Configuration. You must define the geoposition separately in 'simple' and in 'advanced'. But as long as you do that the 'Autofocus' works fine here, though I have only one LNB, no positioner box.

So I definitely would like to understand your configuration. If you could post your settings file, please, or else describe your tuner configuration as you see it in the screen. Thanks.

[gerard0610]

@ rhinoceros.

I send you a PM with detailed information.