scotty2hottie076
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Basic overview of the 3 different scanning methods
Auto-Scan---- Blind-Scan---- manual scan
BlindScan: Scans for found TP frequencies and symbol rates (read signal) within a given range. I forget the default range for circular, but lets use 10.750-13.000 for a standard legacy circular LNB as an example. Upon locking signal, the STB then looks for channel information for a lack of getting technical. Then onto the next found frequency etc...This method is the slowest method of scanning because it scans for not only transponders, but symbol rates.
AutoScan: Will scan the sat using hardcoded tp frequencies and symbol rates. Upon signal lock, channel info is gathered. This is the quickest method of scanning an entire sat, but the information can be limited especially if the hardcode information in the binary is not up to date. There is also an option to turn symbol rate scanning on in this method - some sats tend to change symbol rates from time to time within their transponders (mostly non D!sh/B3v provider sats containing "feed" transponders)
ManualScan: Scans for user input tp and sr for found channel info. (Options exist to scan only the user-input transponder/symbol rate or the whole sat.
BlindScans------> used for true FTA sats such as 97w etc.
AutoScans------> best method for scanning B3v/D!sh
Manual scans---> used for a number of things such as ID'ing a sat with a motor etc.
Note: there are options to change frequency limits while using blind-scan.
My preferred methods:
Anything D!sh/B3v - AutoScan
All others - Blind-Scan
Auto-Scan---- Blind-Scan---- manual scan
BlindScan: Scans for found TP frequencies and symbol rates (read signal) within a given range. I forget the default range for circular, but lets use 10.750-13.000 for a standard legacy circular LNB as an example. Upon locking signal, the STB then looks for channel information for a lack of getting technical. Then onto the next found frequency etc...This method is the slowest method of scanning because it scans for not only transponders, but symbol rates.
AutoScan: Will scan the sat using hardcoded tp frequencies and symbol rates. Upon signal lock, channel info is gathered. This is the quickest method of scanning an entire sat, but the information can be limited especially if the hardcode information in the binary is not up to date. There is also an option to turn symbol rate scanning on in this method - some sats tend to change symbol rates from time to time within their transponders (mostly non D!sh/B3v provider sats containing "feed" transponders)
ManualScan: Scans for user input tp and sr for found channel info. (Options exist to scan only the user-input transponder/symbol rate or the whole sat.
BlindScans------> used for true FTA sats such as 97w etc.
AutoScans------> best method for scanning B3v/D!sh
Manual scans---> used for a number of things such as ID'ing a sat with a motor etc.
Note: there are options to change frequency limits while using blind-scan.
My preferred methods:
Anything D!sh/B3v - AutoScan
All others - Blind-Scan
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