Can't move my rotor with Twinhan DVB-S CI 1034

[moster67]

First of all - Greetings to all of you on this forum.

I have problems with my Twinhan DVB-S CI PCI Card 1034

My HTPC has a CPU with an Athlon 64 +3200 (AM2), 1gb RAM on an ASUS
M2NPV-VM motherboard with a 300W PSU. No other cards are connected.

When the card is being used with one LNB, both with the enclosed
Twinhan-application (Digital TV) and DVB-DREAM using the new BDA-driver by Scanman I get a very good signal/quality and the scan gets me all channels which I can watch perfectly (only FTA - I haven't tried inserting a cam yet). However my problem is that I CANNOT MOVE my rotor (STAB HH120) neither from the Twinhan-application nor from DVD-dream and even MyTheatre (which support Twinhan). It remains in
its place without moving.

The rotor (STAB) works perfectly with my Dreambox, Nokia MediaMaster
and the rotor-control from STAB so I know the rotor and LNB works. I
am not using USALS because my rotor was bought before STAB introduced USALS and thus the dish has been installed differently. For instance with the Dreambox I am moving it manually and store the positions. THis has allways worked perfectly but not with
this card and PC-applications. My card is connected to the antenna/rotor
directly - no cascades.

Any suggestions? I have an ASUS M2NPV-VM motherboard with a 300W PSU. No other PCI-cards are connected - only the DVB-S-card. What can be the problem? Is the PSU too low? Is tehre any utility which I can use
for moving/testing the rotor?

Perhaps I am better off bying a SKyStar 2-card? But then again I've heard it has problems with ASUS-boards. I'm getting nuts - I don't want to change my HTPC-set-up which I just made after my Dreambox died.

Your help would be really appreciated.

Rgds,
Moster67

[moster67]

anybody?

thank you

rgds,
moster67

[jerryt]

Try WDM drivers.

Also THMover from http://www.dvbapps.com/downloads/

[moster67]

Thank you Jerryt. Is there any partiucular procedure when installing the WDM-drivers? I guess that with WIn XP I just go to hardware-properties and disinstall the current driver and replace it with a WDM-driver (which I hopefully will find on the CD furnished with the card)...

Using said driver, will proggies such as DVD-Dream still work? Any drawbacks?

THe I will try out the THMover..

Thank you

Try WDM drivers.

Also THMover from http://www.dvbapps.com/downloads/

[ScanMan]

Hi moster67,

i also own a STAB 120 in combination with a TH 1041 (S2 CI) and i wrote the new BDA-Interface amongst others to use it with BDA-Drivers.

The Interface has a special handling for TwinHan cards and uses their IOCTL-Interface to enhance functionality for DiSEqC at the moment.
In future it should be able to use the remote and CI / CAM also.

At first read something about the Interface here and load it: http://www.dvbdream.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1060

To drive a rotor there are some neccessary setings to do / to know.

1)
If you set up the dish-positions manually you must know their stored numbers in memory of the rotor - they are NOT saved in any software !
Example of my setup:
1=0192, 2=0235, 3=0150, 4=0160, 5=0282, 6=0420, ....

2)
Under options - DiSEqC you have to select 'NONE'.
Add as much positions you want to steer to to port 1.
Simpliest is to have the orde same as stored positions.

3)
Also urgent is to set 'Always force to resend diseqc commands' under Options/Preferences/Performance. Repeat count must be minimum 1 for standard DiSEqC to handle any switch.
THIS IS NECCESSARY - OTHERWISE DD DIDNT SEND DISEQC COMMANDS TO THE DEVICE !
From my experiences i noticed it is neccessary to set the rep.count to minimum 2 - otherwise the rotor didnt recognize the command sometimes...

4)
Now take a look at the positiomers dialog-box.
A) Select a wanted satellite position.
B) Set the associated number stored in the motor correctly
C) Press SEND (under Satellite)
The stored number must appear right from the Sat-Name.
Do this for all positions.

5)
Now you should be able to drive the rotor automatically when you change between positions.
ATTENTION:
You MUST confirm the Message 'Motor will be moved' !!!

Maybe sometimes motor will not move. You can do it manually by sending one or two commands with GOTO and / or SEND.
DONT PRESS STORE ! THIS WILL DISORGANIZE YOUR ROTOR-SETUP IF COMMAND IS NOT REALLY WANTED !

So try it and let me hear the results.

ScanMan

Addendum:
I dont think there is an WDM-driver available for Mantis-Cards.
The latest BDA-revision is 1.0.5.9 - same i'm using with my TH 1041.

[moster67]

Scanman - thank you very much for your step-to-step guide. I am now in the office but when I get back home this evening I will try it.

I will let you know how it goes.

Regards,

moster67

Hi moster67,

i also own a STAB 120 in combination with a TH 1041 (S2 CI) and i wrote the new BDA-Interface amongst others to use it with BDA-Drivers.

The Interface has a special handling for TwinHan cards and uses their IOCTL-Interface to enhance functionality for DiSEqC at the moment.
In future it should be able to use the remote and CI / CAM also.

At first read something about the Interface here and load it: http://www.dvbdream.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1060

To drive a rotor there are some neccessary setings to do / to know.

1)
If you set up the dish-positions manually you must know their stored numbers in memory of the rotor - they are NOT saved in any software !
Example of my setup:
1=0192, 2=0235, 3=0150, 4=0160, 5=0282, 6=0420, ....

2)
Under options - DiSEqC you have to select 'NONE'.
Add as much positions you want to steer to to port 1.
Simpliest is to have the orde same as stored positions.

3)
Also urgent is to set 'Always force to resend diseqc commands' under Options/Preferences/Performance. Repeat count must be minimum 1 for standard DiSEqC to handle any switch.
THIS IS NECCESSARY - OTHERWISE DD DIDNT SEND DISEQC COMMANDS TO THE DEVICE !
From my experiences i noticed it is neccessary to set the rep.count to minimum 2 - otherwise the rotor didnt recognize the command sometimes...

4)
Now take a look at the positiomers dialog-box.
A) Select a wanted satellite position.
B) Set the associated number stored in the motor correctly
C) Press SEND (under Satellite)
The stored number must appear right from the Sat-Name.
Do this for all positions.

5)
Now you should be able to drive the rotor automatically when you change between positions.
ATTENTION:
You MUST confirm the Message 'Motor will be moved' !!!

Maybe sometimes motor will not move. You can do it manually by sending one or two commands with GOTO and / or SEND.
DONT PRESS STORE ! THIS WILL DISORGANIZE YOUR ROTOR-SETUP IF COMMAND IS NOT REALLY WANTED !

So try it and let me hear the results.

ScanMan

Addendum:
I dont think there is an WDM-driver available for Mantis-Cards.
The latest BDA-revision is 1.0.5.9 - same i'm using with my TH 1041.