Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Lars Hanisch]

Hi,

Am 03.01.2012 11:43, schrieb Morfsta:

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, ilia mane  wrote:

Thank you Lars Hanisch it work for me.I just disable the dynamite plugin in
/etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf and the rotorng plugin work now.


Just returned from the Christmas period, merry Christmas all!

Then it looks like dynamite is the problem. Rotorng has a setup option
for the satellite adapter that is connected to the rotor and normally
it is set to 1,2,3 etc depending on the allocated adapter # at boot
up. I guess this might now change with this virtual proxy for the
adapter that is setup by dynamite?

How is this handled, for example by femon or other plugins that need
to communicate with the required physical adapter #?


 A quick grep in the femon sources shows me, that femon opens the frontend on its own. It will use the device's 
"CardIndex()" as adapter number and will always open frontend0 (which will break even without dynamite on 
multi-frontend-devices). For now dynamite will not guarantee that adpater #0 will have cardindex #0. If you want to 
correlate the shown info to your devices, you'll have to look in the dynamite settings -> list all devices (or use the 
SVDRP command "plug dynamite lstd").


 It is possible to assign adapters to specific cardindices with the udev environment variable "dynamite_cardindex". But 
one should use this on all adapters since the logic behind this is not so smart to first attach all devices with a set 
cardindex and then all others.


 I think it might be a good idea if dynamite will use the adapter number as a 
hint for the cardindex.


 I can imagine these things, that will lead to problems with dynamite:
- new virtual functions in cDevice or cDvbDevice: they have to be patched into dynamite's cDynamicDevice so it can 
forward calls to its subdevice
- new non-virtual member functions in cDevice/cDvbDevice: for every method it has to be evaluated if the "parent's" or 
"subdevice's" value has to be return (e.g. CardIndex, DeviceNumber, PatPmtParser, CamSlot etc.). It depends from where 
and in which context these functions are called (has the caller a pointer to a subdevice like a call from within 
cDvbDevice - has it a pointer from the cDevice::device array which will point to the parent device etc.).
- dynamic_cast (like it is used with the new device bonding feature): plugins won't get the "real" 
device like cDvbDevice or similar. It will always be a cDynamicDevice.


 rotorng adds one new virtual function to cDevice: SendDiseqcCmd
 In yavdr this is included in the dynamite plugin (as "nm -d 
/usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-dynamite.so.1.7.22" confirms).
 When I look at the cDevice-functions rotorng is using I don't see anything which will lead to problems. Maybe it's 
just a cardindex mismatch?


 There are two ways to test this (after reactivating dynamite with an * in /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf, which will 
ensure that dynamite loads as the last plugin):


1. The "fast" way: Detach all devices from vdr with "svdrpsend plug dynamite 
dtad"
   Reattach them in the "right" order with "svdrpsend plug dynamite attd 
/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0" etc.

2. The other way: Add a udev rule to your system that will assign every 
frontend a cardindex, it may look like:

 ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="dvb", ENV{DVB_DEVICE_TYPE}=="frontend", 
ENV{dynamite_cardindex}="%E{DVB_ADAPTER_NUM}"

 Reload the modules and restart vdr. This assumes you have no card with 
multiple frontends.


Thanks,
Lars.



Thanks,

Morfsta

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Morfsta]

On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:32 PM, ilia mane  wrote:
> Thank you Lars Hanisch it work for me.I just disable the dynamite plugin in
> /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf and the rotorng plugin work now.

Just returned from the Christmas period, merry Christmas all!

Then it looks like dynamite is the problem. Rotorng has a setup option
for the satellite adapter that is connected to the rotor and normally
it is set to 1,2,3 etc depending on the allocated adapter # at boot
up. I guess this might now change with this virtual proxy for the
adapter that is setup by dynamite?

How is this handled, for example by femon or other plugins that need
to communicate with the required physical adapter #?

Thanks,

Morfsta

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[ilia mane]

Thank you Lars Hanisch it work for me.I just disable the dynamite plugin in
/etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf and the rotorng plugin work now.

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Lars Hanisch  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am 23.12.2011 20:07, schrieb Morfsta:
>
>   Please install the latest updates with:
>>> $ sudo apt-get update
>>> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>>>
>>>  There was an error in the vdr-plugin dynamite's Makefile.
>>>
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Thanks for your help, but the rotor / rotorng plugins still don't work
>> after the update.
>>
>> Any other ideas?
>>
>
>  I don't see a dynamite related problem after a quick look over the source
> of the plugins in the yaVDR PPA.
>  The vdr-patch adds a new method to cDevice and dynamite is aware of it.
>
>  Please take a look at 'nm -D 
> /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-**dynamite.so.1.7.21'
> if there's a symbol cDynamicDevice::SendDiseqcCmd.
>
>  If you'r familiar with build debs you can try to rebuild vdr with some
> logmessages in the SendDiseqcCmd methods of dvbdevice.c to see if there are
> really sent. I have only DVB-C and can't really test it.
>
>  Some words to dynamite, a core functionallity of yaVDR:
>  It creates devices "between" vdr and the "real" devices like a proxy
> passing all virtual methods to its subdevice. This makes it possible to
> start vdr with a lot of dummy devices (not to mix with the plugin) and
> attach the dvbdevices when they are created, e.g. if they get plugged in
> via USB.
>  Also dynamite is able to set unused devices to an idle state, which means
> that it closes all its filehandles including the frontend. Please look in
> /etc/vdr/plugins/plugin.**dynamite.conf if an idle-timeout is specified.
>
>  dynamite is running in the yavdr team for months and hasn't shown many
> problems. But I don't think that anyone of us has tested it with rotor(ng).
>
>  And take a look at the dynamite repository. There are patches for other
> plugins which need to be patched.
>
>  I hope we can get rotor back to work again!
>
>  If you have dvb hardware, which initialises fast on boot (like PCI/PCIe
> devices) you can try to disable dynamite in the
> /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf, just insert a minus before it. But be aware to
> insert a * if you want to use it again, since this is needed to asure that
> dynamite is the last plugin that gets loaded.
>
> Regards,
> Lars.
>
>
>
>> Kind Regards,
>>
>> Morfsta
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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Lars Hanisch]

Hi,

Am 23.12.2011 20:07, schrieb Morfsta:

  Please install the latest updates with:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

  There was an error in the vdr-plugin dynamite's Makefile.


Hi there,

Thanks for your help, but the rotor / rotorng plugins still don't work
after the update.

Any other ideas?


 I don't see a dynamite related problem after a quick look over the source of 
the plugins in the yaVDR PPA.
 The vdr-patch adds a new method to cDevice and dynamite is aware of it.

 Please take a look at 'nm -D /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-dynamite.so.1.7.21' if there's a symbol 
cDynamicDevice::SendDiseqcCmd.


 If you'r familiar with build debs you can try to rebuild vdr with some logmessages in the SendDiseqcCmd methods of 
dvbdevice.c to see if there are really sent. I have only DVB-C and can't really test it.


 Some words to dynamite, a core functionallity of yaVDR:
 It creates devices "between" vdr and the "real" devices like a proxy passing all virtual methods to its subdevice. 
This makes it possible to start vdr with a lot of dummy devices (not to mix with the plugin) and attach the dvbdevices 
when they are created, e.g. if they get plugged in via USB.
 Also dynamite is able to set unused devices to an idle state, which means that it closes all its filehandles including 
the frontend. Please look in /etc/vdr/plugins/plugin.dynamite.conf if an idle-timeout is specified.


 dynamite is running in the yavdr team for months and hasn't shown many problems. But I don't think that anyone of us 
has tested it with rotor(ng).


 And take a look at the dynamite repository. There are patches for other 
plugins which need to be patched.

 I hope we can get rotor back to work again!

 If you have dvb hardware, which initialises fast on boot (like PCI/PCIe devices) you can try to disable dynamite in 
the /etc/vdr/plugins/order.conf, just insert a minus before it. But be aware to insert a * if you want to use it again, 
since this is needed to asure that dynamite is the last plugin that gets loaded.


Regards,
Lars.



Kind Regards,

Morfsta

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Morfsta]

>  Please install the latest updates with:
> $ sudo apt-get update
> $ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
>
>  There was an error in the vdr-plugin dynamite's Makefile.

Hi there,

Thanks for your help, but the rotor / rotorng plugins still don't work
after the update.

Any other ideas?

Kind Regards,

Morfsta

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Lars Hanisch]

Hi,

Am 20.12.2011 09:49, schrieb Morfsta:

I have just upgraded my VDR system to yavdr 0.4.0 which uses VDR
1.7.21 and I notice that the Rotor plugin and my own Rotor-ng plugin
no longer drive the rotor using any of the functions in the menu.

Is anyone else seeing this too?

I think that this could be because of recent changes to disecq
handling code within VDR as part of the Unicable update. Klaus could
you point me in the direction of what might have changed such that
these plugins no longer work and I will do my best to implement a fix.

Thanks very much for your help,


 Please install the latest updates with:
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 There was an error in the vdr-plugin dynamite's Makefile.

Thanks,
Lars.



Regards,

Morfsta

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Jan. Med.]

Hi,

> That may be. Have you installed the latest updates?
># sudo apt-get update
># sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 >There should at least be an update for vdr-plugin-dynamite.

Sorry, I don't use yavdr.
Rotorng works fine for me with the last 1.7.22 and the previous versions.
The version 22 is patched only with rotor patch.
The 21 with rotor+lnbsharing patches

Regards,
Jan
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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Lars Hanisch]

Hi,

Am 21.12.2011 22:12, schrieb jan med:

I think the problem is YaVDR.
Rotorng work whit both vdr-1.7.21/22 (whit patch).
There are only same problem with low/no signal!
The old-rotor not compile for me.


 That may be. Have you installed the latest updates?
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

 There should at least be an update for vdr-plugin-dynamite.

Regards,
Lars.



kind regards,

Jan23


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[vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[jan med]

I think the problem is YaVDR.
Rotorng work whit both vdr-1.7.21/22 (whit patch).
There are only same problem with low/no signal!
The old-rotor not compile for me.

kind regards,

Jan23
diff -ruN 1.7.22//device.h 1.7.22a//device.h
--- 1.7.22//device.h	2011-12-04 14:38:17.0 +0100
+++ 1.7.22a//device.h	2011-12-05 21:17:36.77513 +0100
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@
 #include "spu.h"
 #include "thread.h"
 #include "tools.h"
+#include 
+#include 
 
 #define MAXDEVICES 16 // the maximum number of devices in the system
 #define MAXPIDHANDLES  64 // the maximum number of different PIDs per device
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@
   virtual bool HasProgramme(void);
  ///< Returns true if the device is currently showing any programme to
  ///< the user, either through replaying or live.
-
+  virtual bool SendDiseqcCmd(dvb_diseqc_master_cmd cmd) {return false;}
 // PID handle facilities
 
 private:
diff -ruN 1.7.22/dvbdevice.c 1.7.22a/dvbdevice.c
--- 1.7.22/dvbdevice.c  2011-12-03 16:24:27.0 +0100
+++ 1.7.22a/dvbdevice.c 2011-12-08 22:13:44.04113 +0100
@@ -261,6 +261,7 @@
 private:
   static cMutex bondMutex;
   enum eTunerStatus { tsIdle, tsSet, tsTuned, tsLocked };
+  bool SendDiseqc;
   const cDvbDevice *device;
   int fd_frontend;
   int adapter, frontend;
@@ -276,6 +277,7 @@
   cMutex mutex;
   cCondVar locked;
   cCondVar newSet;
+  dvb_diseqc_master_cmd diseqc_cmd;
   cDvbTuner *bondedTuner;
   bool bondedMaster;
   bool bondedMasterFailed;
@@ -297,6 +299,7 @@
   uint32_t SubsystemId(void) const { return subsystemId; }
   bool IsTunedTo(const cChannel *Channel) const;
   void SetChannel(const cChannel *Channel);
+  bool SendDiseqcCmd(dvb_diseqc_master_cmd cmd);
   bool Locked(int TimeoutMs = 0);
   int GetSignalStrength(void) const;
   int GetSignalQuality(void) const;
@@ -308,6 +311,7 @@
 {
   device = Device;
   fd_frontend = Fd_Frontend;
+  SendDiseqc=false;
   adapter = Adapter;
   frontend = Frontend;
   frontendType = FrontendType;
@@ -813,6 +817,10 @@
 if (GetFrontendStatus(NewStatus))
Status = NewStatus;
 cMutexLock MutexLock(&mutex);
+if (SendDiseqc) {
+   CHECK(ioctl(fd_frontend, FE_DISEQC_SEND_MASTER_CMD, &diseqc_cmd));
+   SendDiseqc=false;
+   }
 switch (tunerStatus) {
   case tsIdle:
break;
@@ -867,6 +875,17 @@
 }
 }
 
+bool cDvbTuner::SendDiseqcCmd(dvb_diseqc_master_cmd cmd)
+{
+  cMutexLock MutexLock(&mutex);
+  if ((frontendType!=SYS_DVBS2 && frontendType!=SYS_DVBS) || SendDiseqc)
+return false;
+  diseqc_cmd=cmd;
+  SendDiseqc=true;
+  newSet.Broadcast();
+  return true;
+}
+
 // --- cDvbSourceParam ---
 
 class cDvbSourceParam : public cSourceParam {
@@ -1415,6 +1434,11 @@
   return dvbTuner ? dvbTuner->Locked(TimeoutMs) : false;
 }
 
+bool cDvbDevice::SendDiseqcCmd(dvb_diseqc_master_cmd cmd)
+{
+  return dvbTuner->SendDiseqcCmd(cmd);
+}
+
 void cDvbDevice::SetTransferModeForDolbyDigital(int Mode)
 {
   setTransferModeForDolbyDigital = Mode;
diff -ruN 1.7.22//dvbdevice.h 1.7.22a//dvbdevice.h
--- 1.7.22//dvbdevice.h	2011-12-04 14:38:17.0 +0100
+++ 1.7.22a//dvbdevice.h	2011-12-05 21:17:36.75513 +0100
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@
   virtual bool SetChannelDevice(const cChannel *Channel, bool LiveView);
 public:
   virtual bool HasLock(int TimeoutMs = 0);
+  virtual bool SendDiseqcCmd(dvb_diseqc_master_cmd cmd);
 
 // PID handle facilities
 
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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Ales Jurik]

On 12/20/11 21:51, Morfsta wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Ales Jurik  wrote:
>>
>> I also had to implement changes into Seppo patch for gotoxx - so maybe
>> you could take a look into the latest version of gotoxx patch for
>> 1.7.22, it is working without problems, hope it helps.
>>
>> You could find the patch at
>> http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2011-December/025511.html
> 
> I don't know the previous patch, what did you have to change?
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The previous version you could find at
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2011-January/024430.html. I'm not
personally sure whether it was working with 1.7.21, but I've heard that
it was. I've personally used it with 1.7.16 and 1.7.18.

Regards,

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Morfsta]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Ales Jurik  wrote:
>
> I also had to implement changes into Seppo patch for gotoxx - so maybe
> you could take a look into the latest version of gotoxx patch for
> 1.7.22, it is working without problems, hope it helps.
>
> You could find the patch at
> http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2011-December/025511.html

I don't know the previous patch, what did you have to change?

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Morfsta]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Klaus Schmidinger
 wrote:
> On 20.12.2011 09:49, Morfsta wrote:

> I don't see what could have changed in version 1.7.21 that might
> have an impact on this.
> "Satellite Channel Routing" (SCR) and "Device Bonding" (unicable)
> were implemented in later versions.

I think the yavdr VDR distribution has the Unicable patch applied to
1.7.21, there is an option "log LNB usage" in the LNB menu and there
is a # Unicable set of entries in the disecq.conf file.

The rotor and rotorng plugin use: -

  if (ActuatorDevice->SendDiseqcCmd(switch_cmds[KNr]))

to send the disecq sequence to move the rotor where KNr is the device
number with the rotor atached.

Has this means to send the disecqc command now changed as part of
unicable support both in core VDR 1.7.21 and as part of the patch?

Kind Regards,

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Klaus Schmidinger]

On 20.12.2011 09:49, Morfsta wrote:

Hi,

I have just upgraded my VDR system to yavdr 0.4.0 which uses VDR
1.7.21 and I notice that the Rotor plugin and my own Rotor-ng plugin
no longer drive the rotor using any of the functions in the menu.

Is anyone else seeing this too?

I think that this could be because of recent changes to disecq
handling code within VDR as part of the Unicable update. Klaus could
you point me in the direction of what might have changed such that
these plugins no longer work and I will do my best to implement a fix.


I don't see what could have changed in version 1.7.21 that might
have an impact on this.
"Satellite Channel Routing" (SCR) and "Device Bonding" (unicable)
were implemented in later versions.

Klaus

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Re: [vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Ales Jurik]

On 12/20/11 09:49, Morfsta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have just upgraded my VDR system to yavdr 0.4.0 which uses VDR
> 1.7.21 and I notice that the Rotor plugin and my own Rotor-ng plugin
> no longer drive the rotor using any of the functions in the menu.
> 
> Is anyone else seeing this too?
> 
> I think that this could be because of recent changes to disecq
> handling code within VDR as part of the Unicable update. Klaus could
> you point me in the direction of what might have changed such that
> these plugins no longer work and I will do my best to implement a fix.
> 
> Thanks very much for your help,
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Morfsta
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Hi Morfsta,

I also had to implement changes into Seppo patch for gotoxx - so maybe
you could take a look into the latest version of gotoxx patch for
1.7.22, it is working without problems, hope it helps.

You could find the patch at
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/vdr/2011-December/025511.html

Best Regards,

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[vdr] Rotor / Rotor-NG not working with latest VDR

[Morfsta]

Hi,

I have just upgraded my VDR system to yavdr 0.4.0 which uses VDR
1.7.21 and I notice that the Rotor plugin and my own Rotor-ng plugin
no longer drive the rotor using any of the functions in the menu.

Is anyone else seeing this too?

I think that this could be because of recent changes to disecq
handling code within VDR as part of the Unicable update. Klaus could
you point me in the direction of what might have changed such that
these plugins no longer work and I will do my best to implement a fix.

Thanks very much for your help,

Regards,

Morfsta

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