One Motorised Dish Two Receiver Switching.

[remlap]

Is it possible to use one motorised dish and automatically or manually but I would prefer automatically switching between the two different receivers.

I am wondering would either reciever need to know which satellite the other receiver has been set at before I switch over?

I have a Technomate and Humax HD boxes on 1.05m dish with Motek Disqec/USALS motor

The reason is I want to take down the wall mounted 90cm dish because of the high winds this week it has gone out of alignment, and then resite at ground level when we have better weather so its easier to adjust if need be.

Also this has what has happened to my Invacom LNB, the thin orange plastic layer has completed shattered and when taken down I literally poored out water.

Thanks.

Sorry for the poor quality it was a quick camera phone job.

[nanochickin]

In theory you could do it with one of those manual A-B switch boxes that they sell at maplins for about £7

Not sure what it would do to the setting on each box though. As long as you park it back in the same place before switching to either box then i shouldn't imagine it would cause to many problems

I take it the invacom is foobared then :? If it still works you may get away with wrapping a thin layer of cling film or pallet wrap secured with self amalgamating tape around it. It should keep it going until you get round to replacing it. The other alternative is if you have an old standard lnb you could try to bodge on the cap off it on to the invacom.

If you haven't checked to see if the Invacom works make sure its nice and dry again before you apply power to it again. You might be lucky and get away with it



nano

[remlap]

LNB is tottaly gone, not even worth trying when I resite the dish

[Mship]

I would agree with Nano here . Don't know what would happen if you changed Sat's then receivers :?.

I would maybe designate a sat for changing receivers on, that way the receiver's always swap over in the same place. That's what I would have to do otherwise I would be forever forgetting where it was parked when I last switched receivers .

Kev

[Analoguesat]

Unless you always park the dish back in the same position every time you swap over receivers you are going to get horribly confused very quickly.

Ideally you want to designate one receiver to drive the dish and leave it at that.

Imagine this scenario - you are playing with the dish on receiver 1 and move it to say 19E. Then you go out, and come back to play on R2. This time you want to watch 33E so you swing the dish round. Next morning you want to play on 5E so swing it round again.

But now the receiver thinks its on 19E and just swings it round 14 degrees as its no way of knowing its miles off synch......

[BGonaSTICK]

Going to disagree guys

Yes, it should work if you use GOTO x.x format commands, but it's not terribly neat.

Firstly, you would either need to use a manual A/B switch, or a priority switch to physically swap receivers. In the case of the priority switch, that means powering off the unused box and letting the other one take control.

If you are using GOTO x.x DiSEqC commands, it won't matter where the dish is currently, because the receiver just says 'GOTO 19.2E' and the motor does the rest. It's an absolute command, not a relative command. The motor always knows where it is

I do this all the time when using different DVB viewer apps on the PC. If I exit one viewer on 19.2E and go to an app that I last left on 13E it just receives no picture. To actually watch something on Hotbird, you then have to switch to a different satellite (to prompt the program to issue a motor-driving command and inform the program of the actual alignment of the dish) and then switch back to the Hotbird channel you actually wanted to watch. That forces the GOTO 13.0E command that you need to re-align the dish.

It's a bit messy, but it works just fine. Better than going outside in the rain with the spanners.

I have both my Dreambox and SS2 hooked up to an LNB on my motorised dish, but the Dreambox doesn't go through the motor, even though the motor setup in the box thinks it does - and issues motor commands

HTH

[Mship]

Ah so basically the motor knows it's on, say, count 100 and by using GOTO x.x the receiver is just telling the motor something like go to count 200. Where the motor was originally doesn't matter as it will just head off to wherever the receiver tells it 8). I think ops:

Not such a dumb motor then

Kev

[BGonaSTICK]

Yes, something like that. Those that support GOTO x.x anyway (not all do, but the Moteck does).

If it interests you, have a read of this:

http://www.satellitehelp.co.uk/forum...opic,41.0.html

[Analoguesat]

Hmm need to get some practical experience with GOTO I think.....

[remlap]

You be in your eliment for awhile with a goto motor on one of your dishes especially with the more obscure birds mostly past 15w and 28e except for the obvious hubs of Turksat and Hispsat.

The LNB is now registering some life on the signal meter but I think its never going to be going outside again.