Request to add <frequency> and <polarity> options to channels.yml for DVB-S2 (SKY) channels

[trollcop]

Issue

Currently there is no easy way to synchronize DVB-S2 tuning with data in channels.yml. Need to maintain zap.conf with redundant data for tuning.

Suggestion

• Add frequency: xxxxx to channel specification. This will be passed to command as <frequency>
• Add polarity: <H> or <V> to channel specification. This will be passed to command as <polarity>

The above would result in a command line for example:

--freq 12598 --satellite JCSAT4B --polarity H

and tuners.yml would have something like

recapp --freq <frequency> --satellite <satelite> --polarity <polarity>

Which means immediate tuning can be done (freq, polarity, tone are known).
Complete channels.yml would look something like this:

- name: AT-X
  type: SKY
  channel: CH667
  freq: 12718
  polarity: V
  serviceId: 33435
  satelite: JCSAT3A

Also, "satellite" has two ll.

Please consider it.

[kanreisa]

Thank you.
added on a192dcd.

[trollcop]

Thanks!

I've added the parameters to my recskapa fork to match these new capabilities: trollcop/recskapa@3c53ea7

Now its possible to tune without using skapa.conf, and specifying all tuning details inside channels.yml

[trollcop]

I recently upgraded my chinachu to latest version and confirmed this patch working, thanks a lot.

channels.txt

Here's an example of skapa channels.yml (attached .txt file) and tuners.yml

- name: TBS6903(A)
  types:
    - SKY
  command: recskapa -a 0 -l <satellite> -b -s --freq <freq> --pol <polarity> - -

- name: TBS6903(B)
  types:
    - SKY
  command: recskapa -a 1 -l <satellite> -b -s --freq <freq> --pol <polarity> - -