FEC 8/9

[andrew_j_w]

Hi,

Do the Sundtek drivers support an FEC of 8/9? It is needed for this multiplex. I'm struggling to tune it, and when using -F 8/9 with mediaclient it says error the FEC value.

This is my device in case it helps:

**** List of Media Hardware Devices ****
device 0: [             Dual S2]  DVB-S/S2, REMOTE-CONTROL, DVB-S/S2
  [INFO]:
     STATUS: ACTIVE
  [BUS]:
     ID: 1-1.2
  [SERIAL]:
     ID: U220618155800
  [DVB-S/S2]:
     FESTATUS: ACTIVE
     LNBVOLTAGE: ENABLED
     LNBSUPPLY: USBPOWER
     LNBSTATUS: OK
     FRONTEND: /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
     DVR: /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0
     DMX: /dev/dvb/adapter0/demux0
  [REMOTECONTROL]:
     INPUT0: /dev/mediainput0
  [DVB-S/S2]:
     FESTATUS: ACTIVE
     FRONTEND: /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
     DVR: /dev/dvb/adapter1/dvr0
     DMX: /dev/dvb/adapter1/demux0

Many thanks,
Andrew

[Sundtek]

The driver for this device doesn't use the FEC information submitted by the user, you can just write anything there.

The issue lies within mediaclient itself, FEC 8/9 is just not parsed there and that gives you the error; I think since 2014 we do not have any tuner which uses the FEC user information from the user. The tuner will auto-detect the FEC parameters for the given transponder.
For testing with mediaclient you can just pass any FEC value...

[andrew_j_w]

Thanks for the information. You're right, I can tune ok to this channel. I think my problem is an issue with MythTV or Minisatip, not the Sundtek device. I got confused by the error message when trying to tune myself.

Thanks,
Andrew

[Sundtek]

I will update this, thanks for reporting it. It's more a "optical" issue rather than a "functional" one.