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[font=&quot]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?
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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.
 

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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?
 

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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 ;)
 

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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?

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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 ;)
 

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@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
 

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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


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@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
 

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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


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You did update skynet.sys?
 
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