Opened 18 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#2473 closed patch (fixed)

Support for 'reversed polarity' LNBs

Reported by: kenny@… Owned by: danielk
Priority: minor Milestone: 0.21
Component: mythtv Version: head
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: no

Description

Circularly polarizied LNBs when attached to satellite dishes that have two reflectors are reversed from their normal polarity (e.g., left-hand circular becomes right-hand circular). This patch adds a checkbox selector to the DiSEqC LNB configuration to support reversing the polarity of the LNB. Note that linear signals (i.e., horizontal and vertical) are not affected by this toggle.

This patch also adds two preset types for the existing circular LNB presets that are the same values but reversed.

Attachments (4)

lnb-reversed.patch (10.8 KB) - added by kenny@… 18 years ago.
Patch to add in reversal of polarity for circularly polarized LNBs
2473-v1.patch (10.7 KB) - added by danielk 18 years ago.
Partially reviewed patch (I need someone with DiSEqC to sanity check this too).
2473-fix-v1.patch (537 bytes) - added by kenny@… 18 years ago.
Fixes single instance of reversed values in SELECT results.
polinv.patch (393 bytes) - added by daniel.chassot@… 17 years ago.
Fix the polarity inversion bool that was not saved in the DB

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Change History (15)

Changed 18 years ago by kenny@…

Attachment: lnb-reversed.patch added

Patch to add in reversal of polarity for circularly polarized LNBs

comment:1 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Milestone: unknown0.21

Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Attachment: 2473-v1.patch added

Partially reviewed patch (I need someone with DiSEqC to sanity check this too).

comment:2 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [11371]) Fixes #2473. Adds support for polarity inversion in DiSEqC setups by applying modified patch from kenny at the b org.

This happens when using an even number of reflectors and a circularly polarized signal. In particular, this is a problem with those oddly shaped dishes that are used to recieve data from two different satelite constellations at once.

comment:3 Changed 18 years ago by anonymous

Priority: minortrivial
Resolution: fixed
Severity: mediumlow
Status: closedreopened
Type: enhancementdefect

In trunk/mythtv/libs/libmythtv/diseqc.cpp

line 1987 " lnb_pol_inv = :POLINV "

should be

line 1987 " lnb_pol_inv = :POLINV, "

missing comma.

comment:4 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

(In [11380]) Fixes #2473. Fixes typo in earlier commit.

comment:5 Changed 18 years ago by anonymous

Priority: trivialminor
Resolution: fixed
Severity: lowmedium
Status: closedreopened

I looks like the cmd_repeat and inv_pol database items are getting read/written in the wrong order in this patch.

mythconverg.diseqc_tree has lnb_pol_inv as the last item in the table but dieeqc.cpp sometimes has cmd_repeat as last. Check lines starting about 1943

comment:6 Changed 18 years ago by danielk

Can you make a patch?

I don't have DiSEqC, or DVB for that matter, so my write->test->rewrite loop is quite long...

Changed 18 years ago by kenny@…

Attachment: 2473-fix-v1.patch added

Fixes single instance of reversed values in SELECT results.

comment:7 Changed 17 years ago by danielk

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

(In [11398]) Really Fixes #2473. Fixes a copy-n-paste error in [11371].. (looked at, and missed by multiple devs, doh!)

comment:8 Changed 17 years ago by rocketr at gmail.com

Resolution: fixed
Status: closedreopened

With this patch mythtv-setup doesn't allow dishpro LNB's to be saved. It also does not allow me to reverse the 'reversed polarity' LNB option.

comment:9 Changed 17 years ago by anonymous

To clarify you can now only select reversed polarity LNB's in mythtv-setup and nothing else. It won't save the setting if you disable reversed polarity.

Changed 17 years ago by daniel.chassot@…

Attachment: polinv.patch added

Fix the polarity inversion bool that was not saved in the DB

comment:10 Changed 17 years ago by daniel.chassot@…

Type: defectpatch

The polarity inverted flag was never saved to the DB due to type error.(svn head rev11464) I've just attached a patch that fixes this (polinv.patch) This is a nasty bug because the scanner is not working while the inversion is wrong!!

comment:11 Changed 17 years ago by danielk

Resolution: fixed
Status: reopenedclosed

(In [11491]) Fixes #2473. Fixes a bug saving the DiSEqC polarity with patch from Daniel Chassot.

We were saving the string value of the checkbox to the DB as an int, which meant it was always true.

With this change we instead use its boolValue() to save the correct value to the DB.

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