Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

[rikksow]

I have a major problem. I have just had a motorised dish set up and all has been working fine on my alien 8900 HD in enigma 2. The problem i have on the motorised dish is i can't get 28e due to a large tree blocking the line of sight so i have a sky dish on another part of the house which picks up sky so i have diseqc'ed the two but i have to keep changing the settings to either positioner to use the motorised or disecq to use the sky. anyway to cut a long story short i thought i would try and configure it in spark and now i have lost everything on the motorised system in both spark and enigma. I am getting no signal on any satellite yet the motor is still moving. Does anyone know what the hell i have done and how to fix it. Surely if the motor is moving then there is nothing wrong with the dish or lnb??? any ideas

thanks in advance Rikk

[toby69]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

hi rikk,
there,s an old saying, if it aint broke dont fix, but i know that want help.
not familiar with that box, but i know you know your stuff.
only think i can add is start from scratch ie (the dreaded factory re-set) and and re-install items as you would with new box, good luck my friend, hope it all works out.
ps cyprus end of march.

[rikksow]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Cheers toby will have to try that. Can't think why the dish would have gone out of sync so i assume it must be the box?

Cyprus end of June for me!

Ok done a complete factory reset. loaded everything back on and still nothing. Could the LNB have blown? Its brand new and the dish was only installed yesterday by a professional installer.

[bokkie]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Sounds like it´s gone out of sync to me. Have you tried nudging it until you pick up a signal?

[rikksow]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Sorry Bokkie not sure what you mean. Do you mean getting up on the roof and physically moving the dish. I don't have any meters so its gonna be quite difficult. The motor is a technomate 2600 i can manually drive it back to 0 and then reset it is that what you mean? I had a professional installer come and fit it. Might just plead ignorance and give him a call and say it was like that when i switched it on this morning

[toby69]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

i think what bokkie means, depends on box.

spiderbox7000 in motor set-up, there is motor step option, (nudge facility) which moves dish via remote 1 degree for each press on this option, east or west.

[mirny]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

lnb from motor must be connected to diseqc switch input/first, then you need to connect cable from diseqc output back to motor input and then from motor output back to receiver

[rikksow]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Ok have now got a signal, I drove the motor back to 0 and then reset the motor. On my enigma 2 settings i have the ability to step the positioner. I have done this with thor and have tweaked it to 77% and then saved the position and then went back to 0. It seems to have held as previously i was getting 60% do i need to do this with all the satellites or as thor is now on a good strength will it improve all the other sats i can receive. I did try and tweak 7east and improved that saved it on positioner 2 and sent the motor back to 0 and then went to 7 east but it had gone back to 40% even though i had tweaked it to 58%

[McrRed]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Sounds like you're on the road to recovery rikksow,

just a note for others in this position, try to tune against a strong channel to get a rough nudge/step position then fine tune with a known weaker channel to get the best position.

Also for fine-tuning motorised setups:

*http://www.satlover.eu/forum/232835-post50.html

[bokkie]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Ok have now got a signal, I drove the motor back to 0 and then reset the motor. On my enigma 2 settings i have the ability to step the positioner. I have done this with thor and have tweaked it to 77% and then saved the position and then went back to 0. It seems to have held as previously i was getting 60% do i need to do this with all the satellites or as thor is now on a good strength will it improve all the other sats i can receive. I did try and tweak 7east and improved that saved it on positioner 2 and sent the motor back to 0 and then went to 7 east but it had gone back to 40% even though i had tweaked it to 58%

Sorry Rikksow, that was exactly what I meant. Nudging the motor in the settings on your stb. Sounds like you got there so that is a great result.
Think you need to do it with all the sats individually.
No telly over the festive season would have been a nightmare

[rikksow]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Yeah especially as there is footy on tomorrow


thanks

[toby69]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Glad to hear your on road to recovery rikk,
Sorry to say but thats how I set up my system, one bird at a time, quite time consuming but result in the end.
Happy new year to you an wifey
Take care
Toby

[rikksow]

Re: Problems with dish movement in Amiko Alien HD

Yeah cheers Toby all the best to you and your good lady too.

In fact a very happy new year to all on this forum