add EN50494 ("unicable") support to tvheadend #298
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EN50494 ("Unicable") basically sends special DiSEqC commands to the
LNB / switch matrix to select a channel and frequency, later the
frontend is tuned to a fixed freq.
This blends in pretty easily with diseqc_setup, so just add a similar
function named en50494_setup.
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@seife Thanks for doing this, but it will not be included unless done against the dvb-rewrite branch. That will, hopefully, soon be merged to master and I'm not in a position to spend lots of time integrating new DVB features to master only then to port them to rewrite. Adam |
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Ok, I'll rebase my code against dvb-rewrite. |
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Ok, after looking at the code I'm not going to do that soon but will just keep using the old codebase for interoperability tests as long as it is still usable :-) |
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@seife i have started to try to include it into dvb-rewrite, some days ago. |
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@seife ok you haven't a dvb-rewrite branch. Merge my db-rewrite branch easily |
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@seife @InuSasha I talked to Adam a bit about this on IRC the other day, and he (we) came to the conclusion that the EN50494 might be conceptually better suited to be added to the LNB configuration instead of as DiSEqC settings. This is probably where the users would look first. Maybe @adamsutton can chime in with his thoughts about it also. @seife wasn't your original implementation like that? Also, wouldn't it be possible to use both a EN50494 LNB and a DiSEqC switch? For what it's work, the original patch has been working without problems for me for two months or so. |
see https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/8586 and
https://tvheadend.org/issues/1752
Note that I am not an active tvheadend user, I just use it occasionally for testing third party software.
So even though it is unlikely that I'm falling off the edge of the planet soon, I'll probably not notice problems in this code by myself.
I will of course still try to fix issues that arise.