[mythtv] need tone to make diseqc switch work ???

[Simeon Simeonov]

> > I did try that and indeed it helped - 80 % of the
> time
> > I get the switch to work. I do not understand
> that. My
> > rotor works in any case whether I set the tone on
> or
> > off. But the switch would need tone on??? to
> perform
> > the switch. To make things more interesting I
> tried 3
> > different switches and one of them is Spaun
> switch.
> >
> >   
> Do you remember if it works reliably on all those
> switches without the 
> modified tone code if you remove the rotor and plug
> the switch directly 
> in? It almost sounds like the rotor is having
> difficulty passing the 
> modulated tone (diseqc) through unmolested, and
> having a continuous tone 
> before the modulation helps somehow.
> 

I did not try all three of the switches but only two
when I connected directly the switch. I still could
them to work. I also forgot to mention that on this
computer I also have Windoz and there it always
worked. Don't know though how MyTheatre does the
switching (and don't care as long as Linux is OK).
One thing that I,ve seen about the Twinhan cards is
that they tend to generate noise with the diseqc
commands. Perhaps the noise is masking the diseqc and
switches cannot filter them. At the same time Spaun
switch is supposed to be very good at that. Also I am
sure there are a lot of people out there which use
similar cards and I do not see similar reports.


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