Dish wont move to certain satellites

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  • Hi folks


    Hope you can help


    I recently had an 80cm Motorised Dish installed


    Lets see if I can explain what the problem is


    Using Catseye Bouquet I am able to select channels from 3E 7E 9E 10E 13E 19E 20E 23.5E 26E 28.2E and others going East
    The Dish will then move to the position for ALL these satellites. Obviously some wont receive a signal e.g BADR


    I am unable to select ANY from a WEST position and 4.8E as the channel lists are greyed out. Looking to get Thor 5/6 0.8W
    Strange how I can get dish to move to 7E and 3E but not 4.8E which is in the middle so to speak. I know I wont pick up anything from 4.8E but surely dish should move there?


    I have updated my Satellite.xml file using the link on here but to no avail.


    I have VU SOLO2 running OpenPli 4 Beta


    Any help much appreciated


    Mike


  • Knowing how you have your tuner config setup would be a big help here buddy.

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  • Here is tuner config


    Tuner A


    config mode simple
    mode single
    Sat sly uk
    Send Diseqc no


    Tuner B


    Config Mode Simple
    mode positioner
    Long My Longtitude
    west
    Lat My latitude
    North


    Tuning step size 0.360
    memry positions 040
    Horizontal turn speed 2.3
    Vert turn speed 1.7


    There is obviously a setting, and/or file not set up correctly
    As said above strange that I cant get dish to go to 4.8E by using channel selection in bouquet but can get 3E and 7E no problem


    If it was only West satellites then I would think perhaps motor not set up correctly but its also 4.8E

  • motor can only be controlled by one cable via tuner A in your twin stb.


    If that was the case, then I wouldn't be able to get the motor to move to the satellites stated in my first post.



    UPDATE


    Installed BH image and was able to get the dish to move to all the west channels and 4.8E through SATFINDER in setup


    Was unable to do that in OpenPli SATFINDER


    I am however unable to pick up 0.8W The signal gets blocked by my extension on the side of my house :26_002:


    Such a shame as it manages 3E. arrghh if only i could get that extra 4 degrees to the west



    Thanks anyway folks for your input on this


    Mike

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