A short update on the above problem.

I have noticed that if I switch to vertically polarised channels, the satellite dish would move to the correct position and stays there. On the other hand, on horizontally polarised channels, the dish still goes to the satellite position only to move backward and forward between the reference position and the correct satellite position.

It could be a problem of not enough current being supplied by the dm800, but it could also be a timing problem in the DiSEqC commands, especially since the motor is moving.

Any comments?

I have a DM800 with a motorised dish system setup to use USALS. I have a problem with the system. If I am tuned on 13 degrees and try to switch to a channel on say 28 degrees, the dish completes the move, the channel on the 28 degrees satellite comes briefly through and then the dish rotates back to the 13 degrees position (or the reference position, I am not sure). Once it reaches this position, it then starts to move back to the 28 degrees postion only to move back to the original position. It continues with this to-and-fro motion until I switch to a different channel again or I switch off the DM800. At other times this odd behaviour is not exhibited at all. In fact, I try to reboot the machine before moving to a new satellite position, however this is no guarantee that it would work. This behaviour is exhibited in motion between any two satellite positions, even say between 13 and 19 degrees. I find that tuning to a station on the 13 degrees position stabilises most of the time this to-and-fro behaviour, maybe because 13 is close to the reference position, but even here this is not always the case. Sometimes it oscillates also around the 13 degrees position.

I have checked the wiring and motor using another satellite receiver and the dish motion was correct, so it seems that there is something wrong with the DM800.

Any help whatsoever would be most welcome, especially since this seems to be an intermittent fault. Sometimes it works, and many other times it doesn't. Could the distance between the dish and the receiver be a problem (however as I said, another receiver that I used (Humax) worked perfectly)?

Thanks.

Thank you for youre reply. I was going through the code of the Web Interface and could see that there are functions that call the parental control interface, that is why I thought that I was missing something or that there is a bug. Maybe these funciton calls are not yet being invoked.

Unfortunately protecting the Webinterface through an authentication password is not quite the same, since it blocks access to all channels, not just to specific ones.

It seems to me that Parental Control does not work with the Web Interface (i.e. Locked channels can still be accessed va the web interface without the need to enter the pin number). Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?

This is my configuration:

Enigma Version: D2009.06.12.21.45.47-Jun 12 2009

Image Version: dev-2009-06-12

Frontprozessor Version: VNone

Webinterface Version: 1.5rc1

Image - ****** 430

The DM8000 has two built-in tuners and one can record two different channels on two different transponders at the same time, but is it possible to watch two different channels on two different TVs (without using a PC)? I was thinking of connecting one TV using say the DVI interface and the other to the Scart output (in a different room). If this is not possible, any suggestions as to the best and cheapest set-top box in conjunction with the DM8000 that would allow me to do that (I was thinking of streaming the second channel over the network)?

Thanks for any replies.