Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-28 Thread Ales Jurik
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Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-27 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.04.2013 20:56, Lars Hanisch wrote: Am 22.04.2013 14:28, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: ... or even virtual void Drive(bool Left) {}// true = left, false = right virtual void Step(int Steps) {} // <0 = left, >0 = right virtual void SetLimit(bool Left) {} // true = left, false

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-27 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
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Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-23 Thread Ales Jurik
On 04/23/2013 01:08 PM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: ... I'm also thinking of allowing something in the form of * 11700 V 9750 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F0] W15 P * 9 V 10600 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F1] W15 P * 11700 H 9750 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F2] W15 P * 9 H 10600 t V W15 [E0 10 38 F3] W15 P (no

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-23 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 23/04/13 12:41, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: >> >> So maybe it should be better called "SetCurrentPosition" > > The specs on the 0x6F command are a little vague. > What do you suggest should be sent to a DiSEqC rotor? > Something like > > 6F nn 00 00 > > where 'nn' is the number of t

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.04.2013 18:12, Füley István wrote: On 2013.04.21. 15:54, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: (...) The question I have now is: will it be enough to have *one* single positioner in any given setup, or are there actually users who have more than one positioner? (...) Klaus Currently I have 4 tune

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-23 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.04.2013 13:30, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 22/04/13 11:12, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: virtual void Recalc(int Number) /// What would this actually be good for? Imagine that the dish moved but the counter didn't work, or simply there's some slack accumulated, so the actual posit

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Timothy D. Lenz
Better to support multi-positioners. Makes options much more flexible. On 4/21/2013 5:54 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual base class cPositioner, which defin

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Lars Hanisch
Am 22.04.2013 14:28, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: >... > or even > > virtual void Drive(bool Left) {}// true = left, false = right > virtual void Step(int Steps) {} // <0 = left, >0 = right > virtual void SetLimit(bool Left) {} // true = left, false = right > > ? If you would go thi

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Füley István
On 2013.04.21. 15:54, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: (...) The question I have now is: will it be enough to have *one* single positioner in any given setup, or are there actually users who have more than one positioner? (...) Klaus Currently I have 4 tuners, each of them is connected to several

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread VDR User
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 5:33 AM, Klaus Schmidinger wrote: >> I think I would be interested to have possibility for multiple positioners >> later, if VDR would only support it. > > There doesn't seem to be such a big demand for multiple positioners, > so I guess I'll take the easy way and assume th

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 22/04/13 14:28, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: > So what do you folks think? I don't have any preference wrt Left/Right East/West. My last (and only) set top box with integrated positioner was analogue and used East/West, but I don't remember if it had any provision for the southern hemisp

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.04.2013 13:38, Antti Hartikainen wrote: ... I think I would be interested to have possibility for multiple positioners later, if VDR would only support it. There doesn't seem to be such a big demand for multiple positioners, so I guess I'll take the easy way and assume there is only one.

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.04.2013 13:35, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 22/04/13 11:11, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: I'd suggest a parameter with the number of steps to move (and for "step" I mean a "pulse", not the next/previous stored satellite position). I don't see the need for a "number of steps". Well, I

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 22.04.2013 12:37, Mike Booth wrote: I have two positioners one for a ku dish and a second for a C Band dish. The general desire for multiple positioners appears to be rather low, so I guess I won't do the extra work to handle such cases. Would it be possibles to cater for the southern hemi

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Antti Hartikainen
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 11:46:34AM +0300, Teemu Suikki wrote: > 2013/4/21 Klaus Schmidinger : > > I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based > > on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual > > base class cPositioner, which defines all the func

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 22/04/13 11:11, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: >> I'd suggest a parameter with the number of steps to move (and for "step" >> I mean a "pulse", not the next/previous stored satellite position). > > I don't see the need for a "number of steps". Well, I use it from time to time. Say I move

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 22/04/13 11:12, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: >> virtual void Recalc(int Number) >>///> Number >>/// > What would this actually be good for? Imagine that the dish moved but the counter didn't work, or simply there's some slack accumulated, so the actual position and the registere

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Mike Booth
I have two positioners one for a ku dish and a second for a C Band dish. Would it be possibles to cater for the southern hemispere by a switch. Your East is my West. Mike ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/li

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 21.04.2013 20:36, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: One more observation virtual void StepEast(void) {} ///< Move the dish one step to the east. virtual void StepWest(void) {} ///< Move the dish one step to the west. I'd

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 21.04.2013 20:17, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: Any visual feedback will be done via the channel display of the skin, by comparing CurrentLongitude() to TargetLongitude(). And of course any section filtering will start only after the target posit

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 21.04.2013 20:43, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 21/04/13 20:36, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: One more observation virtual void StepEast(void) {} ///< Move the dish one step to the east. virtual void StepWest(void) {}

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-22 Thread Teemu Suikki
2013/4/21 Klaus Schmidinger : > I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based > on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual > base class cPositioner, which defines all the functions necessary to > control the positioner. An implementation of cDis

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 21/04/13 20:36, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: > Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: > > One more observation > >> virtual void StepEast(void) {} >> ///< Move the dish one step to the east. >> virtual void StepWest(void) {} >> ///< Move the dish one st

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: One more observation > virtual void StepEast(void) {} > ///< Move the dish one step to the east. > virtual void StepWest(void) {} > ///< Move the dish one step to the west. I'd suggest a parameter with the number of st

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 21/04/13 20:17, En/na Luca Olivetti ha escrit: > Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: > >> >> Any visual feedback will be done via the channel display of the skin, by >> comparing >> CurrentLongitude() to TargetLongitude(). And of course any section >> filtering will >> start o

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 21/04/13 15:52, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: > > Any visual feedback will be done via the channel display of the skin, by > comparing > CurrentLongitude() to TargetLongitude(). And of course any section > filtering will > start only after the target position has been reached. Mmh, how w

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Dimitar Petrovski
I currently only have one dish with motor, but if the VDR allows it I might consider a second one. Although in that setup I'm not sure that I would use them on just one system. I would definitely add another receiver, maybe with a possibility to share between the two motorized dishes. On Sun, Apr

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread VDR User
I don't have a dish motor myself but FWIW I know a few people who do and they all have only one in their setup. ___ vdr mailing list vdr@linuxtv.org http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Arthur Konovalov
21.04.2013 15:54, Klaus Schmidinger kirjutas: The question I have now is: will it be enough to have *one* single positioner in any given setup, or are there actually users who have more than one positioner? Hi and thanks for bringing this feature to the job list! One is enough for me. -- br,

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
On 21.04.2013 15:40, Luca Olivetti wrote: Al 21/04/13 14:54, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual base class cPositioner, which defines all the functions n

Re: [vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Luca Olivetti
Al 21/04/13 14:54, En/na Klaus Schmidinger ha escrit: > I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based > on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual > base class cPositioner, which defines all the functions necessary to > control the positioner.

[vdr] RFC: one or many positioners?

2013-04-21 Thread Klaus Schmidinger
I'm currently implementing support for steerable dishes, loosely based on https://linuxtv.org/patch/12911. In doing so, I'm defining a virtual base class cPositioner, which defines all the functions necessary to control the positioner. An implementation of cDiseqcPositioner will allow control of "