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{Single, Dual, Quad} Sundtek SkyTV Ultimate / Are there any news regarding the Sundtek SkyTV Quad 4x (DVB-S/S2)?

« am: November 16, 2021, 12:19:21 Nachmittag »

Hi, just wanted to ask regarding the status of the Sundtek SkyTV Quad 4x (DVB-S/S2) tuner. From the several chats on the Sundtek support chat and the blog post on "sundtek.com" from 13. May 2020 I understood that the Prototyping phase was nearing it's end and that the device is probably already in production..

I was not able to find any updates regarding the status of the device (Is it already in production, has it been cancelled or delayed, ETAs, etc?). Does anybody know what's the status of the Quad tuner currently? Thanks.

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{Single, Dual, Quad} Sundtek SkyTV Ultimate / Signal Quality is jumping between 90% and 0%. Bad reception or something else?

« am: Mai 18, 2020, 06:25:40 Nachmittag »

Hi,

I have a Sundtek SkyTV Ultimate (Single) receiver, and the ammount of channels I'm able to tune in have been degraded quite considerably during the last months, which makes me believe that my antenna just shifted and needs readjustments. What confuses me is that the signal quality seems to be eider hight (90%) or it's directly not possible to tune in into a channel. There are other channels that seem to barely be able to tune in, and are extremely blocky. For those blocky channels when running "/opt/bin/mediaclient --readsignal=0 -d /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0", it shows that the signal jumps from 90 to 0 and back all over the palace.. same goes for the SATQUALITY. Any idea why this could be happening?

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SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   1284 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  60400 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   1106 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  14597 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  14%  SNR:   6  BER:   5940 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  36007 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [                                 ] (  0%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  38614 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  46909 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  29561 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:    765 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED:  NO SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   1117 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  53825 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   1402 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  11270 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  40161 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   4886 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [                                 ] (  0%) SATQUALITY:  15%  SNR:   6  BER:    504 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED:  NO SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  20082 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  14%  SNR:   6  BER:    658 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED:  NO SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:  20953 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:    998 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED:  NO SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   5439 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:   1966 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED:  NO SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [                                 ] (  0%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON
SIGNAL: [..............................   ] ( 90%) SATQUALITY:  60%  SNR:   6  BER:      0 FREQ: 1704500    Hz LOCKED: YES SYS: DVB-S2 SYM: 27500000 FEC: FEC_9_10 MOD: QPSK VOLTAGE: H(18V) TONE: ON

How can I interpret the singal strength results here? Is it a good reception or not? Could it be the LNB or Dish related? Noise? Or just bad software settings? Any ideas or extra input?

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{Single, Dual, Quad} Sundtek SkyTV Ultimate / Install the Sundtek SkyTV Ultimate driver in Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi -LXC

« am: Januar 23, 2020, 06:02:26 Nachmittag »

Hi,
I have a Sundtek SkyTV Ultimate 8 2018 which I want to install in a Alpine Linux OS on a Raspberry Pi (ARM) inside an LXC container.

Let's go by parts,

1.
The sundtek_netinst.sh script does not support Alpine Linux, but from what I could observe it does support "arm64musl" which should be what Alpine Linux needs. The only issue is that arm64 is not supported by in Raspberry Pi (At least not officialy yet on the Rpi 4 default kernel). Is there any change to get a non 64 bit build for arm that runs with musl? Will there be official support for Alpine Linux for the Sundtek driver? (I can help out with that, as long as I can get a 32bit ARM build of the drivers).

2.
I'm running the Alpine Linux version inside a LXC container. I'm aware that there is Docker support for the driver (Which is basically the same as how LXC works). How does the driver work? As far as I understood, it is running in userland, so it could run directly in the container? Or is the driver required to be installed on the host and the container at the same time? If installed in both, should I stop the userland service on the host and keep it in the container? (I tested this setup with a Debian LXC container, but without success. It seems to be unable to open the device, while using the driver directly on the host works).

Best regards.

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