Difference between revisions of "VDR Setup-Wizard"

Latest revision as of 21:39, 28 October 2010

This page highlights what should be done in the setup wizard.

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.

1. 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/).
2. We can try to find existing channels.conf on the net.
3. 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.

• Europe
• Africa

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.