Help: using DG-280 with Dvb Dream

kl77 · #1 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 11:17 AM

Hi!
Just got a DG-280, but not sure if I'm configuring it properly in Dvb Dream... In the positioner area, there is the option to select one of the following:
General Diseqc
SG2100
STABHH90
M23D90 (or something like that)
(and a 5th one I'd never heard of)

With General Diseqc, using USALS, it doesn't always move. The Move East and West buttons work in the software, but moving to a longitude does not. If i choose SG2100, it seems to work a little better.. but say my south is at 97.8W. Then I want to point to 97. It goes there. Then if I point to 96, it actually moves WEST! Then if I ask it to go to 111 it doesn't move at all (or any other location for that matter). However the motor moves at its fastest when I select SG2100 and use the East West buttons.

With STABHH90 I have the most success. Anyway there is also a place to configure the speed in degrees/sec so I bumped up the 1.5/sec to 1.9 to match the specs of the DG280 (the other setting of 2.5/sec was already correct for the dg280). So I enable USALS, reset to zero position, point it southerly, then select my southernmost satellite in the positioner (and it moves a tad from 97.8 to 97), and finally manually move the dish mount until I think I'm hitting it (using dishpointer's googlemap) as verified by the squawking SF95 meter.

In the google map, there is a building at a 90 degree to mine and on top are some vents that make it very easy to line up from my balcony the directions to sats. So I'm pretty confident I am lined up with 97. I can also tell it to go to 91 (much stronger signal) and it appears to work. But if I tell it to go to 129 (which according to the map should be in the direction of a ray that just touches the corner of the building next door), the dish stops about 30% shy of that ray.

I'm not to the point that I can actually scan yet because apparently I'm getting zero% signal/strength, even when connected directly between my dvb board and the LNBF (I'm working on that with the maker of the board), but I thought I'd ask if my expectations were correct regarding interpretation of the information at dishpointer.com

what do you guys think???? Is it ok to use the STAB HH90 setting in DVBDream??

kl77 · #2 (**permalink**) 03-20-2008, 11:19 AM

SM3D12 was that one I misquoted up there, if it matters

DogBytes · #3 (**permalink**) 04-17-2008, 09:38 PM

i read relocation's post in the DVB Dream forum that USALS positioner has a lot of bugs in the current version. Hopefully the next version has this very important feature complete and bug free. I currently use tsreader lite 2.8 46c to move the dish using USALS. Works for the most part with a small caveat, even if you are in Northern Hemisphere you need to set latitude as South.