VDR Setup-Wizard
This page highlights what should be done in the setup wizard.
Contents
Choose transmission type
VDR supports
- DVB-S(2)
- DVB-T(2)
- DVB-C
VDR supports a mix of different cards, i.e. you can plug a DVB-S and a DVB-T card into your system.
Choose Provider
There are three options.
- We can either scan for the channels using the selection of the user based on the list of base data in dvb-utils (/usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/).
- We can try to find existing channels.conf on the net.
- We can scan using w_scan, a utility which scans without initial start data.
The advantage of using w_scan is, that we only need the country (for DVB-C and DVB-T), or the satellite position (for DVB-S). The disadvantage is, a scan with w_scan can easily take 30-45minutes.
Using the scan base data
scanning using the scan base data is done by using the scan utility, which is part of the dvb-utils
scan -e 7 /usr/share/doc/dvb-utils/examples/scan/dvb-s/Astra-19.2E
for the Astra satellite on 19.2degree east.
Using existing channels.conf on the net
DVB-S(2) Provider
In theory we should use Lyngsat page and show the list of satellites from that page, based on the location of the core.
etc.
DVB-C and DVB-T Provider
The channels.conf for the cable companies and the terrestrial broadcast companies is kinda hard to come by. There are examples available on the vdr-wiki
Scanning using w_scan
An example on how to scan for the channels.conf is described in the VDR wiki and on the homepage of w_scan.
