[mythtv-users] support for satscan rotor?

[Gavin Hurlbut]

On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:05, Per Jessen <per at computer.org> wrote:
>> Raymond Wagner wrote:
>>
>>> On 3/9/2012 12:38, Per Jessen wrote:
>>>> (newbie alert)
>>>> I am working on replacing our ageing Nokia Mediamaster 9602S - my
>>>> rotor is satscan, and I don't see an option for that when I run
>>>> mythtv-setup. Are satscan rotors supported by mythtv?
>>>
>>> Is "satscan" something different from DiSEqC?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, unfortunately:
>>
>> http://www.sbprojects.com/knowledge/satellite/satscan.php
>
> I was envisioning something serial controlled. This is much more
> complicated! If you're a hardware guy, you could try building the
> electronics to inject this signal into the coax, then control your
> injector with a channel change script. Replacing the rotor sounds like
> the simpler option.

Shouldn't be too hard to program this in a PIC or AVR.  If there's
enough demand for it, I could possibly spend a wee bit of time
designing some circuitry to do this.  Let me know :)