[mythtv-users] Scanning dvb-s Nova-S Plus
Nick Morrott
knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
Sun Jun 29 21:45:59 UTC 2008
On 29/06/2008, Paul <thannet at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 19:56 +0100, Nick Morrott wrote:
> > On 29/06/2008, Paul <thannet at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi
> > > I'm fighting in the dark here, not found any reference that I could
> > > understand to setup these two tuner cards. So far I think I am doing the
> > > following properly, but assume I am not by the error message.
> > >
> > > paul at vs:~$ scan
> > > -a3 /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E
> > > > .szap/channels.conf
> > > scanning /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-28.2E
> > > using '/dev/dvb/adapter3/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter3/demux0'
> > > initial transponder 10773000 H 22000000 5
> > > initial transponder 11778000 V 27500000 2
> > > WARNING: frontend type (OFDM) is not compatible with requested tuning
> > > type (QPSK)
> > > WARNING: frontend type (OFDM) is not compatible with requested tuning
> > > type (QPSK)
> > > ERROR: initial tuning failed
> > > dumping lists (0 services)
> > > Done.
> >
> > Are you sure that /dev/dvb/adapter3/ is your DVB-S card? Do you have 4
> > DVB tuners in the system? Numbering starts from zero, and so far you
> > have mentioned only the Nova-T 500 and the Nova-S Plus.
> >
>
>
> Hi Nick, thanks for the response, I have one Nova-T 500 and two Nova-S
> plus, so in effect I have 4 tuners. Will read into your reply when I am
> more awake tomorrow.
Right - you should have /dev/dvb/adapter[0-3], but there's no
guarantee which order the devices are created. I would check your
dmesg/syslog to ensure that /dev/dvb/adapter3 is a DVB-S adapter and
not a DVB-T one.
--
Nick Morrott
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