ss2 and motor

***Pullet_Surprise*** · 01-08-2004

My set-up is a 1m dish on a rotorsat h-h 100 motor. This goes into the receiver and I have a separate feed off the lnb for my skystar 2. I now want to drive the motor using the pc card via mytheatre, progdvb etc etc. Loop out of the receiver won’t work, will it? So do I need a switch box, if so which one?

Got the right plugins etc, just cant figure the hardware?

**rolfw** · 01-08-2004

Are you wanting to be able to control the dish with either unit? Not sure whether a loopthrough would work for motor control, an A+B switch would obviously do the job, but would carry an insertion loss.

***Pullet_Surprise*** · 01-08-2004

Rolf,

The motor still needs to be controlled by either device, but not at the same time. I would be using one or the other. Could you recommend an a+b switch that would do the job please?

**rolfw** · 01-08-2004

Try this one Pete.

http://custom1.farnell.com/cpc/produ...ct%5Fid=264271

***Pullet_Surprise*** · 01-08-2004

Thanks Rolf,

Just managed to get it moving through the loopout on my sammy. I should really always allow at least three days messing with a satellite project before asking questions

That switch is less than half the price compared to some other sites Ive seen

**rolfw** · 01-08-2004

To make life easy, always try and leave the dish on your due south satellite.

***rossy*** · 07-08-2004

I have eaxactly the same scenario but cant get th e LNB loopthru to work with motor! What wa steh trick and what software were you using for the motor moving?

Originally Posted by Pullet_Surprise

Thanks Rolf,

Just managed to get it moving through the loopout on my sammy. I should really always allow at least three days messing with a satellite project before asking questions

That switch is less than half the price compared to some other sites Ive seen

***Pullet_Surprise*** · 07-08-2004

@Rossy,

The plugin I use is ss2diseqc17, this goes in mytheatre plugins folder. In the first instance I disconnected the receiver and tried to move the motor directly from the card. Once I got it working I tried the loop out et voila.

Let me know how you get on

P.S Make sure you update the synet.sys file in windows/system32/drivers

***rossy*** · 08-08-2004

Hmm,
Alas no success. Connected to Dish without loopthru and Progdvb works fine.
ss2diseqc1.7 however even shows dish as moving but no dish movement happens.Weird. I have tried every permutaion possible (apart from the right one I guess) for configuring but still no movement. Tried Dixie as well and still the same result

Originally Posted by Pullet_Surprise

@Rossy,

The plugin I use is ss2diseqc17, this goes in mytheatre plugins folder. In the first instance I disconnected the receiver and tried to move the motor directly from the card. Once I got it working I tried the loop out et voila.

Let me know how you get on

P.S Make sure you update the synet.sys file in windows/system/drivers

***Pullet_Surprise*** · 08-08-2004

You did update skynet.sys?

***rossy*** · 12-08-2004

Pullet.
I uninstalled everything and reinstalled and lo and behold one moving dish!!!

Do you find that PrOgDVD gets a bit blocky after awhile or if you change channels frequently. Even on 19E or 13E with strong signals I find occasional blocking. I have pretty fast PC 3.06 so was just wondering if you experienced the same or is there something else in options im missing.
Thanks again

Originally Posted by Pullet_Surprise

You did update skynet.sys?

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