mechanical switches are known to kill receivers. Cause it's equivalent to hot-plugging.
Especially A-B switches (in some intermediate position of the slider, both outputs are short together).
I assume you have dual LNBs (two independent outputs).
Just add another diseqc switch (connect it to unused outputs of LNBs, and to your second receiver)
if you read your quote, it really looks like a statement not an answer
I tell you more: I wrote it. Who can know better what it was ?!
This was an answer, and this was an answer to your incorrect question.
I tried to explain you why you were wrong.
When you quoted me here, you omitted original question.
Without it, Homey understood that as a comment addressed to him (or his usbtuner).
Do you see my point?
2 Homey:
Sorry for this mess. It was never my intention to correct/doubt you.
And I'm very thankful to you for pointing out the most recent vTuner driver changes in DM800 (different polling algorithm), which I was not aware off.
actuallt i didnt post quotes that are answers, they are in statments about some facts
check the post #5 in this thread.
You quoted me (from another thread).
It was an answer to your own question "Anyone has tested this new drivers with Genpix SW-1?"
And I answered you: "USBtuner is not a driver". It was not directed to Homey's work at all (as it sounds from your post).
But other people here did not know that, and reacted to your post differently.
PS: I did not change anything in genpix driver, it's still the same (as I released it several months ago).
Sounds good
Not sure why CPU load is higher then here, might be the USB 2.0 Tuner using more bandwidth, or the driver from that tuner uses more ressources. Or your "GP pump" is using more ressources then my usbtuner pump.
these 26-44% CPU loads are on 40mbit transport streams. Genpix driver does not filter packets, it passes entire transport stream to vTuner.
GP pump is nearly identical to your USBtuner pump now.
There are couple of changes specific to genpix device + different size of the buffer, I use 188kB instead of your 1MB (which should not affect CPU load at all).
I don't have my DM800 connected to my network right now (and I'm not home). I'll try to play with different settings for the buffer when I get home, but I don't expect any magic.
btw, Genpix driver is based on the driver which is already in the recent linux kernels (I had to do some "downgrades" to accommodate semaphore functions implemented by "old" kernel used in DM800). Its performance or resource use is identical to all dvb-usb drivers. Thus, I don't expect any resource hogs here.
anis_ber,
it's a very bad idea to post here quotes from other forums in the way you present them:
you quote someone's answer to the question which you don't mention at all.
That's why these quotes sometimes look "stupid" (as if the person you are citing has no idea what he is talking about).
please refrain from doing so, or quote the original question as well.
short question:
is new vTuner (with POLLPRI) already included into any of recent public DM800 images?
or do I need to compile my own?
With the latest fix regarding pollin/pollpri and my latest usbtuner binary from 16/06/2009 it shouldn't have a high CPU Load anymore. I have a CPU Load of ~10% when using my USB Tuner connected to my DM800 ...
thanks for the POLLPRI hint.
I'll modify my pump and see how things go.
Do you know if this tuner is sold in europe, too? This is the first usb DVB-S2 device know to work with DM-800. Very cool news
SkyWalker-1 does not support DVB-S2, unfortunately.
It supports DVB-s and 7 other modulation/fec flavors, but not DVB-S2.
It's USB 2.0 card, btw.
I wrote first beta driver for DM with my own version of the pump (nearly identical to USBtuner) a while back. But did not have time to follow up. Hopefully, things are much better now
