minortom
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- My Satellite Setup
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DM500S
Household LAN
Linux servers (no doze here)
- My Location
- Berkshire
Always nice to start a new forum with a solution rather than a problem :-)
Got a brand new DM500S, and a motor (Rotot sat HH100) going west to east, after
I'm out of the trees it works great up to 28.3E ... which is a pain given how many services there are there :-(
Anyhow to cut a long story shor the problem is a bad entry in the shipped satellite.xml
it has line with freq=9999999 (or more) this cuases the DB it crash/hang. So instead
of pointing E it's waving around off the wst somewhere. The other sympton is it has no
known transponders.
The solution, delete the line, bingo it all works ... I did reboot but it that but might not have been needed (I'd locked it up!).
How did I edit it? Dead easy with emacs(1) on a Fedora (Linux) box, there's a mode that
allows FTP (able) files to be edited just like local files, so desktop editing and dreambox editing are seamless....seems a lot easier that some of grief I see in discussions :-)
... BTW in playing aound with this, I took my palm (with WiFi) into the garden, dead useful to use the web interface to joggle the dish around while standing next to it... must take up the ladder next time !
Got a brand new DM500S, and a motor (Rotot sat HH100) going west to east, after
I'm out of the trees it works great up to 28.3E ... which is a pain given how many services there are there :-(
Anyhow to cut a long story shor the problem is a bad entry in the shipped satellite.xml
it has line with freq=9999999 (or more) this cuases the DB it crash/hang. So instead
of pointing E it's waving around off the wst somewhere. The other sympton is it has no
known transponders.
The solution, delete the line, bingo it all works ... I did reboot but it that but might not have been needed (I'd locked it up!).
How did I edit it? Dead easy with emacs(1) on a Fedora (Linux) box, there's a mode that
allows FTP (able) files to be edited just like local files, so desktop editing and dreambox editing are seamless....seems a lot easier that some of grief I see in discussions :-)
... BTW in playing aound with this, I took my palm (with WiFi) into the garden, dead useful to use the web interface to joggle the dish around while standing next to it... must take up the ladder next time !