[dvblast-devel] Does DVBlast allow DiSEqC switching?

[Thomas Kernen]

Marian Ďurkovič wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 05:27:40PM +0200, Thomas Kernen wrote:
>> I did a quick test of both patches over the week-end. Neither provided a 
>> behaviour that was different from the previous patches.
>>
>> As a side note, and this is purely for comparison purposes, if I test 
>> against the mumudvb project, tuning with DiSEqC works each and every 
>> time with the TT-1500.
> 
> OK, a quick look shows mumudvb:
> - does not use S2API
> - sends only FE_DISEQC_SEND_MASTER_CMD 
> - sends it twice with 15 msec gap between.
> 
> One of those must be the reason.
> 
> 1) could you please check with szap-s2, if it's able to tune to problematic
> transponders on every attempt and if the PIDs are correct (i.e. we need to
> verify S2API).
> 
> 2) could you please try what I suggested before, i.e. use patch2 from
> Christophe and increase all msleep() waits to 100000 (slow switch might
> need larger gaps or repeated transmission).
> 
> 

Marian,

I tested with msleep() waits to 10000, it didn't seem to make any 
difference. I'll now test with Christophe's latest patch (#5) and report 
back.

Cheers,
Thomas