Using Technotrend S-2 3200 with v6.4 beta

[Wayneb]

I have tried now two versions of SageTV beta and the most recent official release and I can't get my Technotrend S-2 3200 to scan any satellites.

I try a satellite in DVB Dream and I make sure I have a good solid signal but it does not find anything at all in SageTV. I added transponder, symbol rate, FEC and polarity info into the predefinedDVBS.frq file for the sats I wanted to use. I have seen posts where some people say they got a pop up box asking for Local osscilator settings but I never get that. I have seen post where someone said they had a DVBs card.lnb file after adding the DVBs tuner card. I get nothing like that, I tried making my own .lnb file but I don't know how the card should be named. My card shows up in the tuner list as
"TechnoTrend BDA/DVB Capture" I tried naming the file Technotrend BDADVB Capture-0.lnb and many other variations. I put this info in the .lnb file

#LNB setup for TechnoTrend BDA/DVb Capture
sat_no:0
sat_name:"G-10R (123.0 W)"
LNB=10750-10750-0


I found some info for someones Hauppauge card and their .lnb file was named
Hauppauge%20WinTV%2088x%20TS%20Capture-0[1].lnb

I am lost on what else I can do here, it should not be this hard to set up a DVB card in a pvr program. In Media portal it is trivial to set one up.


Thanks, Wayne

[zzmystique]

Hi Wayne

Try the attached file - I have a slightly different model but hopefully it will work.

Edit: file didn't upload so..

file name should be TechnoTrend-BDA-DVB-Capture-0.lnb

#LNB setup for TechnoTrend BDA/DVB Capture
sat_no:0
sat_name:"G-10R (123.0 W)"
LNB=10750-10750-0 pos:None opt:None

You will need to stop sage completely (including the service, before copying it in into your sagetv directory)

Anne

[zzmystique]

Oh well it was worth a try - the only other thing I can think of is edit the file with

LNB=10750-10750-10750 pos:None opt:None
or
LNB=10750-10750-10750 pos:A opt:A
or
LNB=10750-10750-10750 pos:B opt:B
etc

And then reboot. (I had to reboot to get mine to work)

Anne

[peterjb]

I'm having a similar problem with my new TT s2-3600 device.. It works a treat in MyTheatre, ProgDVB, etc But won't scan anything through the latest beta no matter what I've tried so far...

Cheers

Peter

[krikkit]

with latest beta 6.4.4 you should not have to write a .lnb file manually, you can enter the needed info via the sage setup (add sat provider), if you don't have this dialog, start out with a fresh install

...i have a running s2-3200 with diseqc switching enabled, and i did not have to manually edit the .lnb file (just entered LOF1, LOF2, LOF SW and diseqc pos/opt)

[plawlor]

Originally Posted by krikkit

...i have a running s2-3200 with diseqc switching enabled, and i did not have to manually edit the .lnb file (just entered LOF1, LOF2, LOF SW and diseqc pos/opt)

Sorry to hijack, but what do LOF1, LOF2, LOF SW do? I'm assuming that these are the LNB settings for the target sat, but what do each mean? What should each of them be set to for a typical Linear FTA sat in North America, e.g. Galaxy 18 @ 123w?

Thanks!