Oh. Further and deeper. And for me frustrating to think of a solution.Something like this?
This thread will be updated over the next few weeks stay tuned....
- KE4EST
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- Forum: C-BAND Satellite Discussion
and this?
Over the last few weeks I have been working on a DiSEqC decoder using an Arduino board.
The idea started a few years ago when Mike Berg, N0QBH posted his decoder using a PIC chip.
My weapon(micro-controller) of choice is the Atmel series of chips. Most of the Arduino boards have Atmel chips, so their boards are perfect. I built the PIC version from Mike and it worked perfect. However, it did just what it said and decoded the DiSEqC packets and printed the Hex numbers. I wanted more. I wanted it to print out on a display what all those numbers meant.
When I get a print out...
- KE4EST
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- Forum: Free To Air (FTA) Discussion
1) Receiver LNB port sends command.
2) Just like the ASC1/Vbox, etc. Filtering captures the diseqc data stream from coax pass thru.
3) Data wakes up the Arduino/MCU. Receives the string.
4 Data stream packet is decoded and translated to RCK packet info.
5) All handshaking and acknowledgements are taken care of by the Arduino.
6) Arduino communicates with the receiver to perform necessary duties.
*RCK comms manual states that either a satellite name or satellite position can be used for the go-to command.*
*RCK Az-El controllers could be used with polar mounts for inclined orbit satellites with additional coding.*
Cool or no-cool?