dish set up

[shadows9]

having used a tm5400 for for the last few years iv now changed to a dm500 but dont know what to do with the dish set up at the moment its perfect so dont know what settings to use in new box any help would be appreciated cheers

 

[Robbo]

You don't need to do anything to the dish setup, if you can get gotoX working, the job will be simple, just swap over the receivers, and setup the motor using gotoX (USALS substitute). If not you will have to use Diseqc 1.2 and store the sat positions manually.

Hopefully your dm500 will work the motor OK, there are reports of clones having problems. In which case you could move the dish with the TM, and feed through to the DM.

 

[shadows9]

i was using USALS before, do have to set my long and latt in goto cheers

 

[Robbo]

Yes, of course, it wont know how far to turn the motor otherwise.

 

[shadows9]

ok am on 1w but might sound stupid but how do i get to move to another sat cheers

 

[Lazarus]

You need to go into each Satellite and select USALS (IIRC there isn't a "global" setting ie one tick and USALS applied to all Satellites on that Box, so you have to select that mode for each and every one).

Then, when you select a USALS enabled Satellite, the motor will drive to the correct position.

 

[shadows9]

and how do i go into each sat menu, set up, service searching , then cheers

 

[Lazarus]

That's something you really need to find out for yourself, by navigating around and seeing what's what.

You won't get the best out of it if you don't play around.

As a matter of interest, are you in Milan, as per your User Profile, or are you in the UK?

Tends to be rather important for many Satellite related issues - In particular, setting up on 1W is fine for the UK, but not terribly valid for Milan ...................... If you are located there, then you should be using Eurobird 9A at 9E as your reference Satellite!

 

[shadows9]

at ther moment am in the south of the uk but will be back in milan next week i have motorized sat systems in both houses on my tm5400 its a lot easier to change sats

 

[Lazarus]

Ah, ok. Thanks.