Hi,

I'm trying to get a Skystar 1 CI to work. I think the tuner or the LNB power may be dead. I've measured the dc voltage coming out of the F-connector and it is very low - I think it should be either 12-13volts or 17-18 volts ?

I tried ProgDVB 4.84.4 with it with 3 different drivers, uninstalling each time.

With the Technisat (v2.421) 2004 Skystar 1 CI WDM drivers and with the latest Twinhan (v2.432) WDM drivers, it says 'Skystar 1 CI over TT - Hard mode [card1] Device not started !

With no WDM driver and the Twinhan BDM driver, it says

Tuner space not founded !
{BDM} DTV-DVBS 878 Digital Tuner Filter
Device not started !


Is my tuner dead ?

With the Technisat (v2.421) 2004 Skystar 1 CI WDM drivers and with the latest Twinhan (v2.432) WDM drivers, it says 'Skystar 1 CI over TT - Hard mode [card1] Device not started !

´Skystar 1 CI over TT - Hard mode [card1] ´ is for technotrend premium cards or hauppauge nexus...you have a twinhan clone ...so select twinhan...

Tuner space not founded !
{BDM} DTV-DVBS 878 Digital Tuner Filter
Device not started !

For this you need installed bda driver and maybe this :



save this text as bda.reg and doubleclick it...then choose BDA DVB-S device in progdvb

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MULTIMEDIA\TV\Tuning Spaces]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MULTIMEDIA\TV\Tuning Spaces\DVB-S]
@="{B64016F3-C9A2-4066-96F0-BD9563314726}"
"Name"="TT-DVB-S"
"Description"="DVB-S Tuning Space Entry"
"Network Type"="{FA4B375A-45B4-4D45-8440-263957B11623}"
"Frequency Mapping"="ex:2d,00,31,0"
"System Type"=dword:00000002
"Network ID"=dword:ffffffff
"High Oscillator Frequency"=dword:00a1be40
"Low Oscillator Frequency"=dword:0094c5f0
"LNB Switch Frequency"=dword:00b28720
"Input Range"="ex:2d,00,31,0"
"Spectral Inversion"=dword:00000002

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MULTIMEDIA\TV\Tuning Spaces\DVB-S\Default Locator]
@="{1DF7D126-4050-47F0-A7CF-4C4CA9241333}"
"Frequency"=dword:00b7e238
"InnerFECMethod"=dword:ffffffff
"InnerFECRate"=dword:ffffffff
"OuterFECMethod"=dword:ffffffff
"OuterFECRate"=dword:ffffffff
"ModulationType"=dword:00000014
"SymbolRate"=dword:00006b6c
"Polarisation"=dword:00000002
"OrbitalPosition"=dword:00000000
"Azimuth"=dword:ffffffff
"Elevation"=dword:ffffffff
"WestPosition"=dword:00000000

SiLencer wrote:
´Skystar 1 CI over TT - Hard mode [card1] ´ is for technotrend premium cards or hauppauge nexus...you have a twinhan clone ...so select twinhan...

I have a Skystar 1 CI and I shouldn't select 'Skystar 1 CI' ???????:shock:

How much more confusing does it get ?

SiLencer wrote: For this you need installed bda driver and maybe this :



save this text as bda.reg and doubleclick it...then choose BDA DVB-S device in progdvb


Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

{snip}

Thank you !

It appears that the card has a dead tuner, though. There is no power going to the LNB.

SiLencer wrote:
´Skystar 1 CI over TT - Hard mode [card1] ´ is for technotrend premium cards or hauppauge nexus...you have a twinhan clone ...so select twinhan...

OK - I re-installed ProgDVB 4.84.4 and selected TwinHan.

Now it says

Device not started !
({WDM} TwinHan DVB-S)

hmm , try a older version (4.56.2 or 4.38.6)

TwinHan cards and progdvb are not very good friends

Looking at the card photo gallery here

www.bttv-gallery.de (WARNING ! VERY LARGE PAGE !)

I can see that the card is visually the same as a TwinHan VP-1030C
(apart from the PCB colour - TwinHan is blue, Skystar 1 CI is green)

The ProgDVB Azurewave/TwinHan support list skips from 1027 to 1034 - missing out the 1030 ("VP-1027, VP-1034, VP-1041")

Has ProgDVB ever supported TwinHan 1030C & clones ?


TIA