[mythtv] Looking for developers familiar with channel scanning and diseqc code
belcampo
belcampo at zonnet.nl
Sat Jul 4 08:45:16 UTC 2009
Peter Brouwer wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am looking for developers who can help me understand the bigger
> picture of the channels scanning and diseqc code for DVB receivers.
> So far it seems quite complex. What I would like to to is add
> functionality to import the so called satellite.xml file. This file
> contains a schema listing the known frequencies for the specified
> satellites in the file. The file is commonly used by DVB satellite
> receivers running on some form of embedded Linux.
> There are various tools around that generate an satellite.xml file from
> well know sat web pages like lynsat or kingofsats.
> Those tools make it very easy to keep on up to date list of known
> frequencies of sats of your choice.
>
> So being able to import such a file in myth would make the whole channel
> scanning process much easier.
>
> I also am having problems getting myth to use my rotor using the Usals
> config option. mythtv-setup works fine, it positins the rotor to the
> correct sat when channel for channels . Zapping channels via the
> frontend does not work, i.e. the rotor always stays at the position I
> lastly used during a channels scan fom mythtv-setup.
>
> The logic and implementation seems hideous complex. Needing to define a
> source for each new sat in the setup phase.
>
> So I am looking for some help and guidance to understand this
> functionality/architecture and code implementation in myth , before
> starting to make changes in it.
Would also love to have this solved, if VDR, Kaffeine, w_scan and
scan-s2/szap-s2 can do it, reliable switch channels from different
sattelites, I think mythtv should be able to do the same, but I'm not a
coder, so can't be of any help.
>
> Regards
> Peter
>
>
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