Enigma 2 and C-BAND Blind Scan.

chewie

chewie

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Good Morning to you all.
I update My VU+ DUO2 last week and had Open ATV firm, after I try to scan C-BAND channels, I noticed that the Blind Scan only looks for KU BAND transponders, check my tuner Config. and is fine, try different Sat's and the same thing.
I had OpenDroid on my USB Multiboot, loaded it this had an older version of software not to old is Opendroid 5.5, I did a blind scan for c-band and no problems, I decided to update the software and after the update I try to scan again and only looks for KU-BAND transponders, loaded the latest from Openspa, same thing.
Finally I loaded the VIX last build from 8/10/2016 and scan c-band just fine, so I don'd know what is going on, just wondering if any of you noticed this change.
Regards.
Chewie
 
Tons of changes have been made to the blindscan plugin in the last few months. I will check it if you give me the exact build number or image identification number.
 
I haven't blind scanned in a while, so I thought I would try it with OpenATV which I originally installed in multiboot back on July 8th. All updates since then were done on line, up to Sept. 1st. As you can see, I am also getting the ku screen when scanning for 101 C band.

Will try later with Satdreamgr which is in flash to see if the results are the same.

As you can see, this does not occur with BlindscanNA.

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Many different groups use OE Alliance, so that is why this error is in more than one group image.

c_band_loc_osc = None
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That line of code should be:
c_band_loc_osc = 5150

OpenATV will probably fix the blindscan error posted above if someone will take the time to report it.
I also noticed the ATSC usb tuners from Hauppauge are recognized in the OpenATV image, but enigma does not know what to do with them so they are listed as nothing. Kernel and other needed Patches are available and OpenATV may very well add them if someone will only ask.
 
Hello Guys
I haven't reported to any group of this problem, the images that have this issue are ATV 5.3, OPENSPA 6.0.004, OPENDROID 5.5.
Regards.
Chewie
 
I think all ot those images are based on OE Alliance. Tell OpenATV about it and they will fix it. I have pointed out what the exact problem is. Somebody made an error while updating the plugin. Either tell them about it or wait for it to be fixed.
 

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Tried it with OpenATV in multiboot and it seems to work. I will try other images next week when I return, since I will be gone for three days and won't have access to the receiver. Or, maybe someone else will test it in the interim. Would be nice to see the coders update this plugin.
 
Different receivers may use different blindscan commands, so the plugin asks which make/model of receiver is being used.
Enigma2 images are not all the same.Viti and BlackHole are similar, while several different groups build from OE Alliance or OpenPLi.
Information about the receiver which is needed for the blindscan plugin will be in a boxtype file ( if fileExists("/proc/stb/info/boxtype") or in a boxbranding file (from boxbranding import getBoxType, getImageVersion, getImageBuild, getBrandOEM)

The blindscan plugin we are working with here is from OE Alliance, and uses boxbranding. I think ViTi uses boxtype, so this explains why it does not work with ViTi.

You may modify this plugin to work with ViTi by adding a line or two of code and tell the plugin to look for boxtype if it does not find boxbranding or vice-versa. That is what I did with the blindscanNA plugin and this very same problem was described in detail in that thread.

There seems to be no interest from anybody using an AzBox, so I see no need to keep modifying the OpenPLi blindscan plugin to run in any image. Current OpenPLi versions of blindscan support Sundtek,TBS, and some of the newer boxes. OpenPLi also has a duplicate transponder check which does not exist yet in OE Alliance. This check is needed for TBS. I think OpenATV added support for the last AzBox models, but nobody has told me if it is true or not.
 
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