CONFIGURATION OF PLUGIN SS2DISEQC12 v. 1.7

The plug-in is composed of an executable file and a dll. That is, we can call the program from both ProgDVB and Windows so that we can move the engine without opening any programs (useful if you want to change the SETUP4PC data services).
Launch ProgDVB and from the Plugins menu select the item SS2DiseqC v1.7 and then Configure. The first time you will be asked to specify the folder where the transponders are located

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The following window relating to our Plugin will open. .

Go to My Computer, find the folder \ ProgDVB \ Satellites and drag it with the mouse on the PLUG-IN window. The curtain that was previously empty will now show all satellites.

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Then click on Configuration at the bottom right. Another window will open where we will set all the parameters relating to the engine:

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On H-H Motor, Type: use STAB H-H1x0 and non-generic DiSEqC because it does not work with the SM3D12 motor!

Range: here you set the limit to the east and west, i.e. the maximum excursion that the motor must complete and must be assessed on the basis of your motor. By default it is set to 70 � and 70 � but as we know from the technical characteristics of our motor its maximum rotation covers a 99 � arc and has hardware limits so it should be set 50 � and 50 �. You can leave the default values ​​as nothing happens (the motor will stop when it reaches the end of the stroke). However, it is advisable to enter the exact limits since later, in the drop-down window showing all the satellites, only those included in the angle covered by the engine will be shown. The other unreachable satellites will be hidden automatically.

Support Goto x.x �: set if your motor supports this standard (SM3D12 supports it great).

High Speed: Select if the motor supports high speed (this function uses 18V to quickly move the dish, only if the distance between satellite and satellite is greater than 5 seconds).

DiSEqC Timing: command sending time, leave unchanged i.e. 500.

Low Speed ​​and High Speed: these two commands scan the transponder, one at low speed and the other at high speed. But the illuminator works at 12 volts so when you are seeing a channel if it is set at 13 volts only the low speed works if instead the 18 volts are set the high speed works but the illuminator does not work (I think it is so roughly ). I would say to leave as default.

Startup Delay: set the delay of the motor start, and this is also fine as you find it, ie 500 ms.

Elevation: value that is automatically calculated when you enter your longitude and latitude data (and it is the value in degrees of the elevation of our parabola) that in any case does not interest us.

Inclination: this is the inclination of the parabola with respect to the motor always calculated automatically

Longitude and Latitude: these data must be entered according to your geographical position and are the most important because thanks to these the engine will understand in which direction to go to find a specific satellite.

True south, Sun Azimuth and Sun Elevation: these are values ​​that are automatically calculated by the plugin.

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Confirma Motor driving: if activated it displays the movement of the motor as OSD, where it is going and if it is using the goto xx command or the driving command with the memorized position, and asks for confirmation before operating the motor (it could be annoying if you use the remote control with Skystar 2)

Driving progression: if activated, a pop-up opens with the progress bar with a countdown in seconds so that we can understand how much is left at the end of the movement.

Click on Apply and return to the main form of the Plugin by clicking on the "X" at the top right.

MAKEUP: If you have multiple partitions, or need to format, you will be interested in saving the plug-in settings in order to reuse them. Unfortunately, there is no configuration file (e.g. .ini or .cfg). The settings are saved directly to the Windows registry at the location [HKEY_CURRENT_USER \ Software \ MiBi]. If you want to cancel the settings just delete this key. If instead you want to keep the settings, right click on the key and select EXPORT; save the .reg log file to a safe location. To restore the settings, just double click on the file and answer YES to the request to enter the keys.

Once the plugin configuration operation is complete, we move on to the actual search for the satellites.

As you well remember, we left the antenna pointed at the reference satellite (Hotbird) and the engine slightly moved (0.5 � West in my case).

From the drop-down menu at the top Satellite position command select your reference satellite (in my case Hotbird1,2,3,4,6) that is the one on which the parabola is currently pointed.
Immediately below (to the left of MODIFY) you will see the message N / A as the plug-in does not know how much to rotate the engine.

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We leave the drop-down menu on "Goto angular position" set 0.5 � and then West (those that we had previously set manually on the engine, which correspond to Hotbird), click on GOTO X.X � and then on MODIFY. You will get a pop-up with the request "Modify current satellite command with GoTo 0.5 � West?"

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to which you will answer "Yes". We then memorized the position of the reference satellite. Next to MODIFY we will no longer see the message N / A but precisely the rotation that the engine must perform to arrive on Hotbird.

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Now comes the fun part, as we should take a day to make the plug-in understand the position of all the other satellites. Instead, just a click on "Auto Goto x.x"

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and answer by clicking on "Yes" since our SM3D12 engine supports the GoTo X.X protocol. Then you are asked whether to use the current satellite as a reference.

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Click again on YES
In doing so, the program resets all satellites using Hotbird as a reference. In fact, by changing the other satellites from the drop-down list, the plugin will immediately show you what angle the motor will have to travel (e.g. 0.3 East).
N.B: Don't make the mistake of confusing engine angle with longitude. That is, for example, if our motor goes from 50 � E to 50 � W (according to what is reported in the manual = 100 � in total) it does not mean that if we live along the Hotbird 13 � line AND we can receive 63 � satellites E (13 � + 50 �) at 37 � W (13 � -50 �). In fact, this reasoning would be valid if we lived in the center of the earth, unfortunately it is not so ... The image helps us understand the difference

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As can be seen, with an engine of 99 � degrees of opening, Italy receives Hispasat (30 � W) at the limit of the rotation of the engine.


At this point the plugin has a very useful function that allows us to find the transponder with the strongest signal and to finely retouch the aim to further improve reception: the "Max Signal" function.

Click on Max Signal, a pop-up "Find transponder with the strongest signal?" Will open. and click on yes

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another "Analyze transponder" window will appear, now the plugin will search for the transponder with the maximum signal of this satellite

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It will take a while (depending on the transponders of the satellite) to analyze all the transponders and during this operation in the upper part of the window you will gradually see the data of the strongest transponder.
At the end of the search, another "Maximum Signal" window will automatically open

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The plugin tries to move the parabola in small steps to the east and west to see if the signal increases and at the end will propose the best position asking "Modify current satellite position with goto x.x � east / west?" (in my case 0.3 � West) that you will confirm.

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This means that the signal detected at 0.3 � West is greater than that at 0.5 � West, and we thank the plugin for this nice help.
In the event that "Maximum signal" does not detect any signal or a value too low you will receive the response "Signal Too Weak" (signal too weak).

Now we can say that Hotbird is perfectly aimed and the SS2DiseqC v1.6 window will look like this:

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As you can see, in the "Tuner information" box, the data and values ​​of the signal present on the transponder currently tuned are shown (e.g. 10834 V sr: 27500 - Signal 73% SNR: 9.9Db).

Now to conclude our beautiful work, perhaps the most beautiful part remains, even if a little boring, that is the positioning on the various satellites and the search for the maximum signal from each of them.

Follow the procedure used to find the maximum signal of the reference sat, i.e. select the following satellite from the list (I started east then Eutelsat W2 16 � E). You will notice that next to the "Modify" button the Auto Goto x.x function launched shortly before has provided to assign the appropriate command to the satellite (GoTo 2.9 East).

Click on the "Goto x.x �" or "SEND" button to make the motor move in the aforementioned position (2.9 � East with respect to 0 �).

Repeat the "Maximum signal" procedure described above and, if at the end a better position is detected to have the maximum signal, confirm the request "Modify current satellite position with goto x.x � east?" by clicking on "Yes".

Repeat this procedure for all the satellites located east of your reference satellite, then switch to all the satellites located to the west, remembering the physical limits of the engine (in the case in question + or - 50 �).

I need this plugin for my case ?

This is for PC installation, it's a TV Card for PC. So nothing to do with a Dreambox.

TS