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Originally Posted by bill190
Yes I don't think it would be too much work to design a program to edit the settings for each satellite. However due to the current problem of deleting sats and all locations below that sat in the list being re-assigned different locations, I would imagine Fortec might fix this in the future. (And then such a program would need to somehow be able to tell old channel files from new.)
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When I read your first message, I didn't understand correctly, what you were referring to, relative to the deletion problem, in fact I thought you were saying that it was a problem with your
VBOX, not the
Mercury. However, on looking at the output from my program, I noticed that some sats that I had never programmed were listed as having DiseqC1.2 sat numbers, and sats that I did program didn't (and I checked this by scrolling through with the remote on the receiver). So I did an experiment, deleting a sat as you described, and now I see what you're talking about. Ie basically, the DiseqC1.2 satellite numbers stay in the same place in the data file, however the satellite Names,
My setup is completely mixed up now, although I think I see a relatively easy way to get things back as they were. I thought that I could "insert" a new satellite at the location that I had just deleted, but I couldn't get that to work. I'm a bit confused, because I had somehow managed to do this before, but I'm not sure how I did it. I thought I had done it using the yellow button. Ie in the menu item where you ADD a satellite, after you spell out the name, there is a yellow button that says INSERT, but I can't get the Mercury to respond to that button now. It's possible that I didn't insert before, but instead changed the name of an existing sat, I'm not sure. But I have some new sats that I've somehow added at the top of the list, and some that I've added at the bottom of the list, and the thing is all confused. I'll probably reset the thing to factory and start over eventually, but I'm just playing with the thing now to see what happens when I do different things.
One interesting thing though. When you DO delete a satellite, and IF as is my case, some of the satellites have DiseqC1.2 positions and others don't, it causes sats which have positions to lose their position number, however they still have DiseqC1.2 listed in the Antenna setup page, while the satellite which previously didn't have a position, now has a position, however positioner is turned to OFF in the Antenna page. Makes me wonder just where the dish is going when I select a sat which is set to DiseqC.12, but has never been assigned a position. These low (first 25 or so) numbers, are pre-assigned on my
SG2100 to
European satellites, but I don't know if there are actual positions in the motor.
Another thing I noticed. The 15th byte in each 32 byte segment srarting at 8000 also seems to resemble the diseqc sat #s, but are numbered different. Not sure yet what these numbers are.
Anyway, this is interesting, and I agree that the Fortec software is all messed up. I never liked what the Fortec software was TRYING to do, and now I find that it isn't even able to do the wrong thing right.