New azbox software out

**stogie5150** · 12-23-2009 05:04 PM

Originally Posted by Babadem

From what I read from other sites, the AZBox will scan up to the SR you input. So lets say you input Symbol Rate of 12000, it will only scan up to 12000 symbol rate. I will test it when I get the chance. It's a start though!

Nope. I scanned Galaxy 19 Ku with a 22000 S/R, all it found was ONLY the channels with 22000 S/R, nothing else.

**Lak7** · 12-23-2009 05:04 PM

Lak7, are you saying that you have it working?

Nope, will try tonight
Talked to another user, it seemed to only scan the Freq entered.

I have a couple Dummy Sats setup as Poor Man's Blind Scan, 102 TPs all with same Scan Rate

**Jim S.** · 12-23-2009 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by stogie5150

Nope. I scanned Galaxy 19 Ku with a 22000 S/R, all it found was ONLY the channels with 22000 S/R, nothing else.

In what universe is that useful?

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting a miracle, since there's no hardware support for it, but they kept claiming that they were working on a way to make it scan in a reasonable time. I suppose this does, but I don't know why I'd even want to.

**Iceberg** · 12-23-2009 05:20 PM

so the blind scan is useless then

unless you scan symbol rates like 13021, 13235, 29270 or 30000 for sports feeds

**Lak7** · 12-23-2009 05:30 PM

My "Poor Man's" for TNT DVB-S2 takes about 15 minutes to scan the 102 TPs

**stogie5150** · 12-23-2009 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

In what universe is that useful?

Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting a miracle, since there's no hardware support for it, but they kept claiming that they were working on a way to make it scan in a reasonable time. I suppose this does, but I don't know why I'd even want to.

Correct. I have been thinking for an hour now, and can't think of a way for it to be useful.

Originally Posted by Iceberg

so the blind scan is useless then

unless you scan symbol rates like 13021, 13235, 29270 or 30000 for sports feeds

Correct again.

The Folks in Europe may be stoked...but its useless for us.

**putney** · 12-23-2009 07:12 PM

Ok, got it working. Hard reboot needed. I set 17000-12200, SR at 32000 / S28PSK on 125w AMC21.

Scanned in everything, dvb included and Montana PBS with a SR of 4340.

So I tried again but:

Deleted all TPs
Deleted all channels

17000-12200, SR at 32000 / S28PSK on 125w AMC21 and
17000-12200, SR at 32000 / DVBS on 125w AMC21.

Got nothing.

So 'blind scan' was just scanning my saved TPs. Big wup!

Good news is that I was able to restore my settings from my USB!

BTW, I hate the new shut down sequence!

**Babadem** · 12-23-2009 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by putney

Ok, got it working. Hard reboot needed. I set 17000-12200, SR at 32000 / S28PSK on 125w AMC21.

Scanned in everything, dvb included and Montana PBS with a SR of 4340.

So I tried again but:

Deleted all TPs
Deleted all channels

17000-12200, SR at 32000 / S28PSK on 125w AMC21 and
17000-12200, SR at 32000 / DVBS on 125w AMC21.

Got nothing.

So 'blind scan' was just scanning my saved TPs. Big wup!

Good news is that I was able to restore my settings from my USB!

BTW, I hate the new shut down sequence!

I had a similar experience with the 4110 update.

@ the red Highlighted;
That should be freqs. 11700-12200?

**Iceberg** · 12-23-2009 10:51 PM

I scanned AMC15 knowing there was a cbb game on there

set the s/r for 30000 (big 10 feed) and said scan

It said it found 6 transponders, 2 new ones...the 4 "old" ones were already logged in there
-macy's
-echo test card
-2 feeds from this past weekend I hadnt cleaned out yet

and for some reason it logged the TP for the bb game twice
-one at 1mhz below the "known" frequency (compared to the Coolsat 5000)
-one at 5mhz above the "known" frequency

so its kinda working but again you have to know the symbol rate. It scans in 5mhz steps when it scans

**brentb636** · 12-24-2009 09:57 AM

The good news is they have finally made the initial effort. Hopefully, they'll continue tuning this until it's an adequate feature. A software Blindscan probably won't ever be more than just "adequte" but it'll be nice to have , nonetheless.
Merry Christmas, all you guys and gals.