Blindscan not working - what am I missing?

[spadie]

Hi,

Whilst I've come across a handful of posts on the subject, this doesn't seem to be an issue for anyone else, so I guess I'm missing something, as I just cannot get blindscan to work

I have a VU+ Duo2 (from the site sponsor) currently running HD Appllo.073 - flashed from USB - but I've never had Blindscan working .

If I accept all the defaults, it happily starts the scan, informs me of the progress and then comes back to advise no transponders found, even though I can programme a transponder in manually on the same satellite, search and store channels. It makes no difference which satellite I choose.

If it makes any difference am trying to use blindscan on tuner D, as that's the motorised dish lnb.

It's frustrating, as I know I have several satellites located using my signal meter - their position stored on the V-Box - but I can't trust the Duo2 to blind scan them, if it can't blind scan a satellite where I already have channels

As an aside, is there any way to search for a satellite, without knowing an active transponders details? Instead of putting a signal meter on the dish and getting someone to move it from the Duo2, whilst I stand by the dish / meter, can the Duo2 just "look for a signal" rather than having to know transponder details? (I've tried connecting my signal meter at the receiver end, rather than at the LNB, but the signal is too weak on all satellites to do any meaningful searching..)

Any ideas?

Many Thanks in advance

 

[psionguy]

Hi,

Whilst I've come across a handful of posts on the subject, this doesn't seem to be an issue for anyone else, so I guess I'm missing something, as I just cannot get blindscan to work

I have a VU+ Duo2 (from the site sponsor) currently running HD Appllo.073 - flashed from USB - but I've never had Blindscan working .

If I accept all the defaults, it happily starts the scan, informs me of the progress and then comes back to advise no transponders found, even though I can programme a transponder in manually on the same satellite, search and store channels. It makes no difference which satellite I choose.

If it makes any difference am trying to use blindscan on tuner D, as that's the motorised dish lnb.

It's frustrating, as I know I have several satellites located using my signal meter - their position stored on the V-Box - but I can't trust the Duo2 to blind scan them, if it can't blind scan a satellite where I already have channels

As an aside, is there any way to search for a satellite, without knowing an active transponders details? Instead of putting a signal meter on the dish and getting someone to move it from the Duo2, whilst I stand by the dish / meter, can the Duo2 just "look for a signal" rather than having to know transponder details? (I've tried connecting my signal meter at the receiver end, rather than at the LNB, but the signal is too weak on all satellites to do any meaningful searching..)

Any ideas?

Many Thanks in advance

Not sure why you are having problems, I have both a static and movable dish setup and I can do a blind scan on both. I find an open channel on the satellite I want to do a blind scan on and then go into settings and select blind scan. It very quickly finds how many transponders on the selected satellite, and then does a blind scan on each transponder until completed, the whole operations tales about 5-7 minutes.

The only difference between our setups is my movable dish is using usals and not a V-Box but providing there is a decent signal all should work. The important point is to have a viewable channel on the satellite you want to do a blind scan before you select the search.

 

[spadie]

Many thanks for the reply - at least I know the facility actually works, to some degree, on a Duo2.

It's been a couple of months, on and off, where I've revisited this issue, so I'm pretty sure I've tried every combination (it can't be that difficult), but I'll treble check exactly what I'm doing - it may be that I am viewing a channel on tuner A (fixed dish) then selecting blindscan from the menu to scan tuner D (motorised), rather than actually watching a channel on tuner D first of all...

I had hoped blindscan would actually do just that - ie, blind scan whatever the LNB is or isn't sending to the Duo2, rather than have to find a channel manually first - as that seems to defeat the object of a true blind scan a little bit - but even getting it working to that extent would be a welcome improvement

As an aside, manual scan works OK, using the preconfigured satellite.xml and I re-flashed to HD Appllo.080 last night, to no avail.

 

[Rob van der Does]

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