MCelliotG

This is the most treasured and sought after feature for all DX lovers using Enigma2 for many years now.

I have already seen tests with both OSmio (Availink) and SF8008 (Silabs) tuners and in both cases no lock values are comparable to PC cards, so that should indicate that at least initially these tuners can show signals below lock with no visible issues.

I am curious if the same can happen for gfutures drivers on Silabs (HD51 etc).

It is definitely worth a trial and error, even with a function that can enable this feature in the tuner settings. For what it's worth, tuner/driver combos that support it will only benefit from this feature.

If I am not mistaken, this was already possible with some Dreamboxes only on their closed source images.

Just go to the manual tuning or satfinder and instead of 16APSK, input 8PSK and FEC to Auto on HD51. It will work!

It's such a simple thing...

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No result on my Mutant HD51 when I select 8PSK in stead off 16apsk

 

Geen resultaat met mijn Mutant HD51 als ik 8PSK selecteer in plaats van 16APSK.

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That is on my HD51.

HD51 and all gfutures receivers have a serious driver issue, where all modulations are read as 8PSK and all FECs as Auto. HD51 will not recognize any non QPSK/8PSK input but will tune to the 16APSK/32APSK if you select 8PSK in manual tuning.

The channels work normally after that setting.

So, the last gfutures driver that was released (and the support stopped completely after that) is to blame. Initial gfutures did work with 16/32APSK.

 

As Littlesat said in this thread:

 

When you do it really right you need to make a listbox horizontal type with size scrollbar number of items etc [...] it is really a feature that universally could be used.

 

So here is a PR for elistbox horizontal.

 

It can be used for horizontal menus, lists, tabs, etc.

 

Possible skin for horizontal menu:

	<screen name="MenuHorizontal" position="fill" backgroundColor="transparent" flags="wfNoBorder">
		<ePixmap alphatest="blend" pixmap="infobar/hd.png" position="0,e-180" size="e,180" zPosition="-1" scale="1"/>
		<widget source="Title" conditional="Title" render="Label" position="0,e-170" size="e,80" font="Regular;64" halign="center" valign="center" transparent="1" backgroundColor="transpBlack"/>
		<widget source="menu" render="Listbox" enableWrapAround="off" position="60,e-85" size="1800,80" foregroundColorSelected="selectedFG" foregroundColor="foreground" backgroundColorSelected="transpBlack" backgroundColor="transpBlack" scrollbarMode="showNever" selectionFrame="none" >
			<convert type="TemplatedMultiContent">
				{"template": [ MultiContentEntryText(pos = (10,0), size = (340,80), flags = RT_HALIGN_CENTER|RT_VALIGN_CENTER,text = 0) ],
					"fonts": [gFont("Regular",34)],
					"itemHeight": 80,
					"itemWidth": 360,
					"orientation" : "orHorizontal",
				}
			</convert>
		</widget>
		<widget addon="Pager" connection="menu" itemHeight="75" showIcons="onlyFirst" picPage="icons/chevronleft.png" picPageCurrent="icons/chevronlefttrans.png" position="0,e-85" size="50,75" transparent="0" backgroundColor="transpBlack"/>
		<widget addon="Pager" connection="menu" itemHeight="75" showIcons="onlyLast" picPage="icons/chevronright.png" picPageCurrent="icons/chevronrighttrans.png" position="e-50,e-85" size="50,75" transparent="0" backgroundColor="transpBlack"/>
	</screen>

This is very very interesting, as a skinner I'm so intrigued by that.

BTW, I want to make sure what the "e" parameter does exactly, does it dynamically place objects? Where is this located position="e-50,e-85" compared to this position="0,e-85".