computer program for finding sats

[cruzin]

Hi, is there a computer program that can be hooked up to the db9pin port on a notebook pc. Ive heard talk about rsreader but do not know its capabilities.

 

[gillham]

Do you mean from the serial port of your notebook to the receiver? There are no tools that I know of that do anything interesting via the serial port besides up/download firmware & channel/sat info.

TSReader generally requires a tuner device for the PC. Either a PCI/PCIe card or a USB tuner. It will also talk to some things across a network, but typically you need a local device.

What are you thinking about for this software? Remotely controlling tuning or something similar?

 

[cruzin]

I would take it out to the dish along with a receiver. Plug the computer into the receiver ( coolsat 5000) and as I am looking for a satellite it might show me what satellite I am on and such. Just wondering if there were any advanced programs (freeware) for things such as this. thanks for resoponding.

 

[roosman]

The only ones I know about are fastsatfinder & progfinder II. But they also require a pci/usb device

 

[cruzin]

The only ones I know about are fastsatfinder & progfinder II. But they also require a pci/usb device

I dont have a pc or usb receiver but its not out of the question. thanks