[mythtv-users] When scanning a DVB-S adapter for channels - which parameters do I tweak to get a complete scan?

[Terjesen Jens Peder]

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On: 23. januar 2013 4:45 Per Jessen wrote:

When scanning for channels, so far I've entered a known frequency, picked orientation=horizontal and bitrate=27500, DVBs or DVB-S2 depending on the card, and left the rest (modulation,FEC etc) to auto or default.  Then repeat with other known frequency, orientation=vertical, bitrate=27500. 

Do I now need to vary the bitrate too, or does that happen automatically?  Are any of the other parameters varied automatically?

Also, what about the frequency? I'm asking because I scanned Hotbird using frequency=11097, orientation=vertical and only got 5 channels. I repeated with frequency=12597, orientation=vertical and got 30 off-air channels, 1062 old DVB channels etc. - i.e. far more.
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Have a look here for valid parameters.
http://en.kingofsat.net/pos-13E.php

It is usually enough to enter frequency, orientation, bitrate (or actually symbolrate) and DVB-S/DVB-S2.
In some cases I have found that setting FEC to correct value can be beneficial.

The "Full scan tuned" does a network scan, so you should get channels from other frequencies as well.
But there may be more networks on the same satellite position, so you may need to scan more than one frequency to get all channels.

So your parameters for frequency 11097 are wrong.
The parameters for frequency 12597 are almost correct, the frequency is 12596.

Jens