Re: [vdr] Re: vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

[Gregoire Favre]

Hello,

of course there is NO problem with vdr diseqc commands, see my posting
with title "THANK YOU Reinhard Nissl (diseqc)" for more info.

Thank and have a good day,
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Re: [vdr] Re: vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

[Gregoire Favre]

On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:50:44PM +0100, Reinhard Nissl wrote:

Hello,

> Which three cards do you have?
> 
> card 0: Hauppauge budget CI
> card 1: Geniatech budget
> card 2: Geniatech budget

> If I didn't drop a line while analysing the output, it seems that card 0
> locks always, card 1 misses some locks and card 2 misses more locks.
> 
> To test whether this is a switch or card issue, would you mind permuting
>  the cables on your cards?

Of course I don't mind :)

> For example: plug the cable on card 0 into card 2 and vice versa and run
> the test again. If card 2 locks always now, then it looks like a switch
> issue.
> 
> With the original configuration, what happens if you run the inner szap
> loop in parallel on the three cards?

I have tried with a new type of LNB and with another diseqc, so all
changed... without any improvment, I think I have to put my dish "right"
again after all those testings before doing some more try :-)

> Hhm, a quick look into cx88-mpeg.c shows that a DMA transfer timed out
> in this case. Don't know what this means. Maybe a driver developer can
> tell you more.
> 
> BTW: what has changed in your setup recently, as I you didn't report
> such issues in the past?

I was having 2 FF cards, and I got tuning problem on one card, since it
seemed FF cards suffer from bad diseqc sending message, I bought two FF
cards, but apparently, it wasn't just a card problem, unless my cards
are broken...

I'll report here ASAP, thank you very much,
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Re: [vdr] Re: vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

[Reinhard Nissl]

Hi,

Gregoire Favre wrote:

> maybe my hardware is not optimal : running a simple bash command :

Which three cards do you have?

card 0:
card 1:
card 2:

> for j in `seq 0 2`;do for i in `seq 1 12`; do szap -a $j -x -n $i ; date
> ;done;done > TUNING.log
> 
> And then grep FE_HAS_LOCK TUNING.log |wc
> 28 4482212
> 
> Which show I miss some lock ???

If I didn't drop a line while analysing the output, it seems that card 0
locks always, card 1 misses some locks and card 2 misses more locks.

To test whether this is a switch or card issue, would you mind permuting
 the cables on your cards?

For example: plug the cable on card 0 into card 2 and vice versa and run
the test again. If card 2 locks always now, then it looks like a switch
issue.

With the original configuration, what happens if you run the inner szap
loop in parallel on the three cards?

> I got lots of "cx88[1]/2-mpeg: cx8802_timeout" in syslogd.

Hhm, a quick look into cx88-mpeg.c shows that a DMA transfer timed out
in this case. Don't know what this means. Maybe a driver developer can
tell you more.

BTW: what has changed in your setup recently, as I you didn't report
such issues in the past?

Bye.
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[vdr] Re: vdr diseqc equivalence of szap diseqc n ?

[Gregoire Favre]

Hello,

maybe my hardware is not optimal : running a simple bash command :

for j in `seq 0 2`;do for i in `seq 1 12`; do szap -a $j -x -n $i ; date
;done;done > TUNING.log

And then grep FE_HAS_LOCK TUNING.log |wc
28 4482212

Which show I miss some lock ???

I got lots of "cx88[1]/2-mpeg: cx8802_timeout" in syslogd.

The channels.conf I used for the test :

TV5MONDE EUROPE:11597:v:0:22000:45:46:10060
ProSieben:12480:v:0:27500:255:256:898
RTBF SAT:10832:h:0:22000:4194:4195:61998
DAS VIERTE:12460:h:0:27500:2047:2048:1793
Rai Uno:10992:v:1:27500:512:651:8511
The Spirit Word Channel:12265:v:1:27500:2210:2220:3122
ALO TV:10853:h:1:27500:2109:2110:8628
ASTRO CENTER TV:12245:h:1:27500:1023:1033:1003
BBC HD:10847:v:2:22000:0:2320:6940
EuroNews:12560:v:2:27500:2315:2316:54104
BBC FOUR:10773:h:2:22000:5300:5301:6316
Movies4Men:12523:h:2:27500:2331:2332:55011

Doing the tuning twice don't seems to improve things :
for j in `seq 0 2`;do for i in `seq 1 12`;do szap -a $j -x -n $i;szap -a
$j -x -n $i; date;done;done > TUNING2.log
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reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 1 'TV5MONDE EUROPE':
sat 0, frequency = 11597 MHz V, symbolrate 2200, vpid = 0x002d, apid = 
0x002e sid = 0x274c
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 00 | signal  | snr  | ber 4f00 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal 8bf1 | snr b550 | ber 3800 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:42 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 2 'ProSieben':
sat 0, frequency = 12480 MHz V, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x00ff, apid = 
0x0100 sid = 0x0382
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 03 | signal b67d | snr b976 | ber 1900 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal b66d | snr ce28 | ber 0700 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:43 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 3 'RTBF SAT':
sat 0, frequency = 10832 MHz H, symbolrate 2200, vpid = 0x1062, apid = 
0x1063 sid = 0xf22e
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 01 | signal 9c29 | snr 913e | ber ff10 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal b538 | snr aae8 | ber 5e00 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:44 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 4 'DAS VIERTE':
sat 0, frequency = 12460 MHz H, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x07ff, apid = 
0x0800 sid = 0x0701
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 03 | signal a579 | snr ce94 | ber 1c00 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal acb7 | snr e02b | ber 0500 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:45 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 5 'Rai Uno':
sat 1, frequency = 10992 MHz V, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x0200, apid = 
0x028b sid = 0x213f
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 03 | signal 9d83 | snr c0e7 | ber ff30 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal a8be | snr d5ae | ber 0700 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:47 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 6 'The Spirit Word Channel':
sat 1, frequency = 12265 MHz V, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x08a2, apid = 
0x08ac sid = 0x0c32
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 07 | signal a5e7 | snr db90 | ber 0b00 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal a77e | snr ddd9 | ber 0800 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:48 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 7 'ALO TV':
sat 1, frequency = 10853 MHz H, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x083d, apid = 
0x083e sid = 0x21b4
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 07 | signal b2b6 | snr d26c | ber 9900 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal b3da | snr d371 | ber 0300 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:49 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 8 'ASTRO CENTER TV':
sat 1, frequency = 12245 MHz H, symbolrate 2750, vpid = 0x03ff, apid = 
0x0409 sid = 0x03eb
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 03 | signal 6f9b | snr b682 | ber 4000 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal 90cc | snr d332 | ber 0b00 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:50 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/greg/.szap/channels.conf'
zapping to 9 'BBC HD':
sat 2, frequency = 10847 MHz V, symbolrate 2200, vpid = 0x1fff, apid = 
0x0910 sid = 0x1b1c
using '/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0' and '/dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0'
status 03 | signal ab0b | snr a9e9 | ber 2800 | unc  | 
status 1f | signal b540 | snr c867 | ber 0500 | unc  | FE_HAS_LOCK
Thu Feb  1 22:46:51 CET 2007
reading channels from file '/home/g