Recent content by David Jashi

No, it's not available in 8 tuner mode, that's why I'm connecting those to cascade output of multiswitch. They won;t see other satellites, only one.

They are used in different modes. 8 tuner mode (inputs should be VH/VL/HH/HL) 8 tuner mode Unicable (one connection from Unicable LNB on first port) 4 tuner mode (normal switchable inputs)

On the second thought, now that I'm aware of existence of 0/12V switch, I could assemble an Arduino-controlled switch matrix (1+2 cascaded 0/12V-s on each receiver, plugged into 1x4 splitters on each cascade output of multiswitch) but a) it will switch all 8 receivers from satellite to another...

Now, that's nothing special - they are intended to be stuck to their own satellites. So, you just plug them into cascade output of multiswitch and that's all.

Yrah, I noticed, that I was looking at my own post and removed this sentence about button not being there 5 minutes ago.

Of course, and different models from different suppliers too.

You could save us both hell of a time by posting those pictures earlier. This is factory-made thing that does EXACTLY what I need without any extra fiddling and risk. It switches 2 RF inputs with an EXTERNAL (not embedded, like DISEqC) signal. Marvelous. I'll simply buy 32 if those and connect...

Will it be "all", that's the question I must check. If not, its a dead end.

You are right: Well, it's much easier to get visa to my country, so I guess it's the better way out. ( by the way, it's not THAT Georgia, it's smaller one next to Turkey)

Now it's a bit clearer. The only way to check if this works is an experiment. So, as I understand, I should pass only 1.1 commands to my multiswitch (I will have to check, whether I can do basic switching without using anything from 1.0 subset, which I doubt - they are backward compatible) and...

As I mentioned above, commands for 1/2 switches will cascade to multiswitch, and it will react too, won't it? It depends on what do you mean by 0/12 switch. If something like Frankenswitch - then my comment was invalid.

Here are those switches: They always have power - either from 18V PSU, or at least one of receivers. Multiswitch will also react to this command and switch this very input to position 2. If for those I will definitely need external control, as they don't pass DISEqC commands out.

Now, that's exactly the problem and reason why I had to deal with this kludge - The multiswitch I am using (or should I call it matrix switch) uses DISEqC 2.0 for selection of one of 4 input dishes and 0/22kHz+14/18V for band/polarization. Therefore, whenever I send command to first DISEqC, the...

Yes, and Frankenswitch v4/v5 in conjunction with Arduino will do just fine. RF is present only in headend, clients are fed with HLS streams. There are 16 (14+2 spare) TBS6910 on multiswitch outputs and 8 (4+4 spare) TBS6909 cards on multiswitch's cascade (those cards have internal switches...

Well, its industrial grade headend for a small (couple of hundreds of end-users) community of my friends in remote mountainous location and it contains 10 small NUC-sized (mostly) computers for receiving, descrambling, transcoding and one 19" 1 RU for recordings. I think I can handle an Arduino...