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Techomate M5402 M3 and Diseqc setups
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 975836" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Update:</p><p></p><p>EMP has now told me that setting dipswitch 4 to ON causes the switch to repeat the Diseqc 1.0/1.1 commands to connected switches and so on, and suggested that I do that - which I did.</p><p></p><p>Next, I re-did the Switch and LNB Diseqc 1.0 and 1.1 configuration according to the list in a diagram that they sent me for all 12 LNBs on the 3 BEST switches - (been trying to insert a link to the Dropbox Public Folders file of the diagram - but keep getting Error 404 - Grrh!)</p><p></p><p>I then selected and tried to access various of the 12 satellites – and unfortunately found that it made little or no difference to the actual LNBs selected, with the BEST switch Inlet port “1” LNBs almost always being those that were automatically selected, BUT the correct Inlet 1 port on the EMP switch for that BEST switch was always correctly selected. That meant when, for example, I chose LNB 4 on Dish 3, which should choose 9E and did a channel scan I actually found that I was getting channels that are on Hispasat at 30W (i.e. LNB 1 on Dish 3).</p><p></p><p>Finally, and after trying a lot of other possible things on various satellites and to avoid any confusion, I completely deleted the existing channel list on the receiver. That left the list of satellites still there but with no channels listed on any of them.</p><p></p><p>I then looked at LNBs 1, 2, 3 & 4 which are on Dish/BEST switch 1 for 13E, 19E, 28E & (I think 33E) respectively as I already knew that I appeared to be receiving none of the previously-listed channels on 28E but always those from on 13E.</p><p></p><p>I then selected the nominal 28E satellite which was/is shown as Diseqc 1.0 input 3 & Diseqc 1.1 input 1, and did a fairly long Blind Search on “that” satellite – and got a large number (nearly 1000 before I stopped the search) of channels but they are clearly all from 13E s and <em>not</em> from 28E (I have Lygnsat printouts of channels on 13E, 28E and all the other satellites in the list ).</p><p></p><p>I then adjusted the Diseqc 1.0 and 1.1 input selections in the menus on a channel where an actual signal was shown to be present – and found that altering the 1.0 selection made no difference, but altering the 1.1 selection to anything but “1” (i.e. BEST switch 1 for Dish 1, i.e. for 13E) made the channel signal drop out immediately but it would then come back again when I reselected Diseqc1.1 = “1”.</p><p></p><p>BTW: On this receiver, the Diseqc 1.1 menu only allows you to select 1 to 16 of 16 LNBs, whereas on the Diseqc menu on the Icecrypt that I had previously, you could select 1 of 2 (i.e. mini-Diseqc), 1 to 4 of 4 (i.e. Diseqc 1.0), 1 to 8 of 8 <em>or</em> 1 to 16 of 16 (both Diseqc 1.1 I assume) – not sure if that would make any actual difference here as I guess that most people would generally not have more than 6-8 LNBs anyway and so – if this model of receiver could initially have caused a selection problem to those people then it would have been sorted out by now as the model is several years old.</p><p></p><p>Therefore, as I did all three separate Dish & LNB setups using the relevant BEST switches (which, it appears, actually claim to be DiSEqC 2.0 compliant) using the Diseqc 1.0 selection from the receiver with no issues, I believe that I can be pretty confident that the receiver itself is correctly and consistently outputting the correct 1.0 commands to the EMP switch, but that the EMP switch is apparently not correctly transmitting those 1.0 commands onwards to the BEST switches - and that conclusion is consistent all that I have observed over the last couple of days since I connected those switches to the EMP switch.</p><p></p><p>Your thoughts ?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 975836, member: 176704"] Update: EMP has now told me that setting dipswitch 4 to ON causes the switch to repeat the Diseqc 1.0/1.1 commands to connected switches and so on, and suggested that I do that - which I did. Next, I re-did the Switch and LNB Diseqc 1.0 and 1.1 configuration according to the list in a diagram that they sent me for all 12 LNBs on the 3 BEST switches - (been trying to insert a link to the Dropbox Public Folders file of the diagram - but keep getting Error 404 - Grrh!) I then selected and tried to access various of the 12 satellites – and unfortunately found that it made little or no difference to the actual LNBs selected, with the BEST switch Inlet port “1” LNBs almost always being those that were automatically selected, BUT the correct Inlet 1 port on the EMP switch for that BEST switch was always correctly selected. That meant when, for example, I chose LNB 4 on Dish 3, which should choose 9E and did a channel scan I actually found that I was getting channels that are on Hispasat at 30W (i.e. LNB 1 on Dish 3). Finally, and after trying a lot of other possible things on various satellites and to avoid any confusion, I completely deleted the existing channel list on the receiver. That left the list of satellites still there but with no channels listed on any of them. I then looked at LNBs 1, 2, 3 & 4 which are on Dish/BEST switch 1 for 13E, 19E, 28E & (I think 33E) respectively as I already knew that I appeared to be receiving none of the previously-listed channels on 28E but always those from on 13E. I then selected the nominal 28E satellite which was/is shown as Diseqc 1.0 input 3 & Diseqc 1.1 input 1, and did a fairly long Blind Search on “that” satellite – and got a large number (nearly 1000 before I stopped the search) of channels but they are clearly all from 13E s and [I]not[/I] from 28E (I have Lygnsat printouts of channels on 13E, 28E and all the other satellites in the list ). I then adjusted the Diseqc 1.0 and 1.1 input selections in the menus on a channel where an actual signal was shown to be present – and found that altering the 1.0 selection made no difference, but altering the 1.1 selection to anything but “1” (i.e. BEST switch 1 for Dish 1, i.e. for 13E) made the channel signal drop out immediately but it would then come back again when I reselected Diseqc1.1 = “1”. BTW: On this receiver, the Diseqc 1.1 menu only allows you to select 1 to 16 of 16 LNBs, whereas on the Diseqc menu on the Icecrypt that I had previously, you could select 1 of 2 (i.e. mini-Diseqc), 1 to 4 of 4 (i.e. Diseqc 1.0), 1 to 8 of 8 [I]or[/I] 1 to 16 of 16 (both Diseqc 1.1 I assume) – not sure if that would make any actual difference here as I guess that most people would generally not have more than 6-8 LNBs anyway and so – if this model of receiver could initially have caused a selection problem to those people then it would have been sorted out by now as the model is several years old. Therefore, as I did all three separate Dish & LNB setups using the relevant BEST switches (which, it appears, actually claim to be DiSEqC 2.0 compliant) using the Diseqc 1.0 selection from the receiver with no issues, I believe that I can be pretty confident that the receiver itself is correctly and consistently outputting the correct 1.0 commands to the EMP switch, but that the EMP switch is apparently not correctly transmitting those 1.0 commands onwards to the BEST switches - and that conclusion is consistent all that I have observed over the last couple of days since I connected those switches to the EMP switch. Your thoughts ? [/QUOTE]
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