Posts by wabbit

  • Aligning LNBs on a Triax Multi-Block to recieve Thor, Astra and Eutelsat 16A (16E)

    Hi,


    I recently bought a Triax TD88 sattelite dish and a Triax multi-block LNB holder to hold 4 LNBs.


    I live in Denmark (Otterup) and am trying to recieve sattelite channels from Thor, Astra and Eutelsat 16A.


    The azimuth is set to 26,5 degrees.


    Reciever: Vu+ Solo2


    I manged to get a signal strength of 88% on Astra (middle LNB), however I cant get anything on Eutelsat 16A, which is the most important sattelite for me.
    Did not try Thor yet, but I dont imagine it will be a problem.


    Here is the setup:


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    Notice how the holder is tilted to the left. On Astra I get a better signal like this, compared to when it is straight, or tilted to the right.


    The question is how far to the right I should place the left LNB, in order to get a signal on Eutelsat? There is a difference in 11 degrees, how many cm is that approximately?


    The transponder I am using is:


    10720.00 H DVB-S 27500 3/4


    I got a signal strenght of 60% on Eutelsat with another sattelite and a single LNB. Finding it was a matter of millimeters, so I am wondering if it is even possible to recieve these sattelites at the same time, with my setup.


    Thanks in advance

  • How to recieve N lines through a proxy and share F lines without proxy

    Hi,


    I have a server which I can get N-Lines from.


    As far as I've understood, when you have an N-line, you can create F-lines that you can share with your friends (if the N-line has reshare rights).


    I would like to get the N-Line through a proxy server, and share the F-lines normally, without a proxy. Is that possible only with a CCCAM server? I was thinking about using proxychains for the proxy part, but I think it routes ALL traffic through the proxy, which is not what I want.


    The idea is illustrated in "Solution1" in the image below.


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    I dont think Solution1 is possible with just a single CCCAM server. AFAIK N: lines are issued by OScam, NewCS or any other emulator that follows the NewCamd protocol. Solution2 shows another idea on how I could approach this.


    Any suggestions?


    Thanks

  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Quote from bmitie

    yes you have 2 tuners on solo2 so two cables required, then you can record on one sat and watch on another, hole for 2 cables is not much bigger.


    Just load a satlelitelisting that has all the sats, I use catseyes then select 0.8w go to al jazeera etc, then select 4.8e I found quite a few free to air, a open is music. you can then use dremabox edit to delete the other sats etc


    I got my signal meter today. Managed to get a lock on both sattelites. Got around 800 services on Thor and 500 on Astra. Some channels are on 99% SNR some are lower, but I am satisfied :)!


    Catseyes is not available for my version of Black Hole. At least not through Addons -> Addons Download Manager -> Black Hole Addons Plugins. AutoBouquetsMaker only finds the two transponders that were available when i first installed it. Tried reinstalling but the list of transponders remains the same.


    The next step is to create some nice bouquets for these sattelites :)


    Thanks for all the help everyone!


    // Edit: Just figured out catseye is a channel list supposed to be managed by an editor, and not an addon

  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Quote from joeuser

    Maybe look closer at which channels you receive and which ones you don't and see if there is a pattern of only V or H or Hi or Low.


    Here are the channels that I recieve (wrapped in code element so the post will be shorter):


    header: #, name, pos, freq, prov, sid, Ch.No, Type



    I mounted the diseqc on the outer wall. This way I only had to drill one hole for one cable. It also has a plastic cover which makes it waterproof. Was that a bad idea?
    I will try your suggestions with al jazeera and the other stuff tomorrow ! :)

  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Finally I figured out what skew means: rotating the LNB ^_^


    Changed it back to the old setup - Left LNB: Thor and Right LNB: Astra.


    Did an autoscan and recieved around 200 "services", 50 of them being from Astra, as before. No radios.


    SNR on all channels is around 95%.


    I think it's weird that I do not recieve more channels on theese sattelites.


    Installed AutoBouquetes to see if it would find more channels. It fails with the error message: Timeout for tuner lock


    Here is the error log:



    Thanks

  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Quote from bmitie

    You need to give a bit more information, the important bit is the make and mdel of your receiver, it might be a, cheap, b, have a poor tuner, c, the software may be poor. A lot of the channels on those sats are encrypted so you need a subscription. The usaul procedure for getting sats is buy receiver, load a list of channels already prepared, select sat and away you go. You are trying the hard way, ie scan sat and so on. You have a twin lnb setup that is specifically designed to received two sats. Does your receiver have a tuners, ie two lnb inputs?? You cant get 100% signal with that setup . Its a compromise so you aim for best signal that wont break up in case of rain or snow. Did you assemble the duo as shown in the photo? It has to be excact.


    Al jazeera is free to air on 0.8west use that to get a signal. I cant get 4.8e.


    A quad lnb is just a single lnb with 4 outputs it will always point at one satellite.


    As mentioned in my first post the reciever is a Vu+ Solo2 running Black Hole 3.0.1.F OE. The LNBs are connected to a DiSEqC. The reciever also has two tuners. I have subscriptions for Canal Digital and Viasat (nordic, OSCam).
    Right now I have a SNR of 99% on some Canal Digital channels (Thor), however 59% SNR on Astra. Your idea with the prepared list of channels sounds good. Will try to find one and upload it, to see what SNR I am getting on those channels. Doesn't matter if I am doing it the hard way, wouldn't learn anything otherwise :P


    Just bought a satellite signal strenght meter for positioning satellite dishes so I hope that will help a bit.



    Im a little confused. What I meant was the leftmost LNB, when looking from behind the dish toward the satellites, was pointing at Thor. Is that correct, or should it be reversed?
    I just reversed it and am getting 99% on Thor while staying on 59% on Astra:


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    Im not sure how to skew the dish as it is locked to the wall mount, and the LNBs are locked to the bracket. Only thing I can do is to rotate the LNBs:


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  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Thanks for the replies and sorry for slow repsonse.


    As for my location I live in Odense, Denmark.


    I downloaded a sattelies.xml file from sattelites-xml.eu where I chose Thor 5/6/7/Intelsat 10-02 (0.8W) and Astra 4A/SES 5 (4.9E) and uploaded it to my reciever. Also I used a "spirit level" to level the dish correctly.


    I found a predefined transponder in Satfinder (Black Hole application) that was on 59% (Thor) and moved the dish until it came above 60%. Then I did a automatic scan and found a lot of services.


    I managed to get a signal from 62-78% on both sattelites (depending on the channel).


    On Astra i found 50 services while I found 150 on Thor.


    All the services from Thor are from the provider "Telenor" which is the Canal Digital package. On Astra the provider is Unknown, however it should be Viasat.


    On Thor I am missing some Ex-Yu channels like:


    Happy
    DM Sat
    TV B92
    OBN
    RTS 1
    RTS 2


    Which are on: 12092 H 28000 7/8


    http://www.lyngsat.com/Thor-5-6-and-Intelsat-10-02.html


    Tried changing the values in Satfinder to see how big an SNR I would get with these values but it isnt good.


    Would I recieve better signal on both sattelites with a quad lnb as mentioned by bmitie ?


    Thanks

  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Thanks for the reply!


    I was trying to pick up one sattelite just to see whether everything works. Is it absolutely necessary to connect both LNBs and use the DiSEqC just for test purposes?


    I bought this as a whole package that is supposed to be able to capture Thor 0.8W and Astra 4A 4.8E, because the Duo-Block is 6 degrees. Im not sure if that is a valid argument, but the advertisement was exactly for these two sattelites.


    I also noticed that the SNR on my Vu+ Solo2 is fluctating even when there are no cables connected. Is this normal?

  • Aligning dish with two LNBs to work with Thor 0.8W and and Astra 4A 4.8E

    Hello,


    I just set up a sattelite dish for the first time, and am having some trouble locking a good signal on Thor. This is the equipment:


    Dish:
    Triax TD 78 70x78 cm
    Link: http://www.triax.com/FindProdu…29-4836-9748-1e876f62173d


    LNB Holder:
    Triax 6 degree DUO-Block
    Link: http://www.triax.dk/FindProduc…28-42d1-a3e8-689ba844abb6


    LNB:
    2x: Triax TSI 006 Universal Single LNB
    Link: http://www.triax.dk/FindProduc…9a-4b26-b9c4-4aceb4be65f2


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    Only the LNB to the left is connected to the STB.


    Reciever:
    Vu+ Solo2 with Black Hole 3.0.1.F OE 3


    I also bought a DiSEqC but havent installed it yet.


    Dishpointer.com shows where to point the dish:


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    The dish is elevated to 26 degrees. I am live on the 2nd floor, does that matter?


    The AGC is 82% constantly and the SNR is spiking between 0-40 all the time.


    The same behaviour happens if i disconnected the cable from the LNB or switch the cable to the other tuner. When playing with different FEC values and symbol rates I cant get the SNR up to 60%.


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    What could I be doing wrong? Is the LNB skewed correctly?


    Thanks in advance

  • How to compile OScam to Black Hole on Vu+ Solo2?

    Hello :)


    Just got my first STB (Vu+ Solo2) and would like to install OSCam manually.


    I have download the repository from streamboards website.


    Accessing the box through telnet and executing the command "make" in the oscam folder returns the following error:


    Quote

    root@vusolo2:~/oscam/oscam-svn# make
    -sh: make: command not found


    I figured I need some compiler tools so I executed the following commands:


    opkg update
    opkg install gcc gcc-symlinks make-dev binutils-dev libgcc-dev


    which returns:



    My guess is that I am missing some repositories. The folder /etc/opkg/ contains the following files (which all point to the vuplus community feeds).:


    Quote

    vusolo2-feed.conf
    opkg.conf
    mips32el-feed.conf
    arch.conf
    all-feed.conf
    3rd-party-settings-feed.conf


    Any help is welcome.


    Thanks in advance