Hi Brendon,
Gilbert,
This is great feedback, thanks for your efforts on behalf of the community.
Did you need to do anything special to make it work with the Unidata Noaaport
ingestor, or is it as simple as giving the new Novra the same IP addresses as
the old Novra and swapping hardware?
Brendon
That was pretty much it; it works straight out of the box with the
UNIDATA NOAAport ingester. The S-200 came with different default IP
addresses, so I had to change those. Otherwise, if you have worked with
the S-75 windows install and configure program, it's almost identical to
that for the DVB-S portion. There's more to it for the DVB-S2 part of it,
but we're obviously not there yet, and everything looks straightforward.
20 minutes out of the 40 minute install was me trying to figure out A)
Why it kept chopping off the ".5" in my frequency (it does, but it
figures out exactly what it broadcasts on, and today, it's a whopping 36
Hz off!) and how it tells you that in the display, B) the symbol rate
issue, and C) I forgot to mention, you do have to put in the downlink
frequency (6343.5 MhZ), or set your Local Oscillator (L/O) to zero, and
just put in the exact frequency of 1193.5 MhZ. The rest of the time was
getting it out of the box, getting the IP's and everything else set.
I was also told that the current signal strength meter
on the S-200 is a better derived indicator, but I wasn't told why.
Finally, there is a Unix/Linux interface that is being rewritten, and
should be out in about a week. So as of now, the only way to configure
it is by using the installer program using Windows only (I used Windows 7,
but XP/Vista should work fine), and you obviously have to be physically
present to do it. If you're curious, for those of you who have the
S75_TEST program, you get this with an S-200:
% S75_TEST
Found 0 Device(s)
Select Device to Control or Enter 0 to Specify a Remote Device:
Yep, completely incompatible, as is Jose Nieves' npstats program, but he
promises an update to handle it "long before the conversion". Can't wait!
Gilbert
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