Titanium Satellite Wanted Titanium Satellite ASC1 Dish Mover With Remote

[arlo]

Something like this?

Thread 'DIY Arduino C-Band Dish Mover'

Feb 14, 2020

This thread will be updated over the next few weeks stay tuned....

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and this?

Thread 'Arduino DiSEqC Decoder'

Jun 23, 2016

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...

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Oh. Further and deeper. And for me frustrating to think of a solution.
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?

 

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Satellite dish positioner with Diseqc and wifi | project

The satellite positioner stores the position of the satellites in memory and allows you to move the dish to the desired satellite when you change the satellite channel. The advantage of this device is the possibility of controlling and setting the positioner via Wi-Fi. |...

www.electronicwings.com

GitHub - mehdi-adham/ESP8266-Arduino-Library-Diseqc: ESP8266 Arduino Library Satellite Positioner + Diseqc1.2

ESP8266 Arduino Library Satellite Positioner + Diseqc1.2 - mehdi-adham/ESP8266-Arduino-Library-Diseqc

github.com

GitHub - AK-Homberger/Satellite-Dish-Positioner: An automatical satellite dish positioner with ESP8266 D1 Mini, compass and MPU.

An automatical satellite dish positioner with ESP8266 D1 Mini, compass and MPU. - AK-Homberger/Satellite-Dish-Positioner

github.com

There was a time in my past where I would have been all over this sort of homebrewing exercise.

Everyone else's mileage may vary.

 

[arlo]

Oh. Further and deeper. And for me frustrating to think of a solution.
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?View attachment 183062

More gook. The RCK movers use RS-422. And there happens to be RS-422 Arduino shields. I don't know why I'm on the Adruino thing but people are doing some pretty cool things with them. Research Concepts told me in a phone call when I asked if there was a company or if they knew of anyone offering a diseqc interface. I got a "huh?".
But it was cool to find out that the command set for newer units is backwards compatible.
A lot of fellows are using these different models to move their dishes. Some even use the "ancient" pc software to control them.
But mostly is a Digicipher receiver method. Change to another sat. Get up, walk over punch a few buttons.
Since the ones out there that work are still working. And crafted in the good old U S of A. They still live.
The pc software has some cool files in the installer. Maybe someone would like to take a peek. I've renamed them to open in a text editor like Notepad++.

 

[espaun206]

There's a guy on SatsUK who will build a real nice "better than" ASC1 for you.
The RC units are really cool and very robust. My dream would be to develop (because I suck at programming) an Arduino diseqc interface that sat in the middle of a receiver and the dish mover to translate commands.
On paper it looks not too complicated. Any geek takers?

User in satsUK is Drembox1959?