http://www.satonline.co.uk/shop/products.php?p=128c2d
http://interesting-devices.com/asp/product.asp?product=160
http://www.cheap-sat.com/season-logger-interface-p-31.html
Plessy said:Built a Season interface using basic breadboard 74hc00 1x1n4148 Geranium Signal Diode and 1 10KOhm resistor and hard-wired this to a Cas Interface Dummy Card(Components Removed Beforehand). My problem is the 5Volts ?
Are you folk's using External 5V to power I/F or are you obtaining this from the Serial Port ?
The only reason for trying this is I couldn't get SSSP to work on 2 Different PC's with internal Serial Ports. I Tried different Baud rates on Both System managers in XP, and Also Disabled FIFO to see it would work, but to no Avail...
VCC on the Pad of the Card should be 5volts ?(From External Source?)
I Don't want to Blow up My 15 month Diablo 2.3 by sticking voltage where it shouldn't belong.
snakie said:5volts are only required to power up the ic , nothing more than this.
So you could just take it from the vcc of the dummy card coming from the cam itself,
or you could use an external power supply with stabilised output ( like the usb chargers for iphones ) or you could just take the power from a free usb port on your pc.
Plessy said:Thank You snakie !
The in's and out's can be a bit confusing when yer out of the frost for a long time, I was not sure weather to power tha cam or circuit in order to establish communication like the old rs232 days,but with a little more patience, I will get this working eventually ! if only for the challenge..
the Bay was Very cheap to be fair on these item's but I cannot justify this at present time.
These are some quick photo's of the DIY Scrap Yard Scenario of a Basic Season Interface !
Please Note This circuit is NOT Provided with External 5 Volt Power Supply. These Circuit Diagrams were sourced from the vaults of Wisdom...
diterpap said:hello!before one mounth i bye one season logger from germany after your message to my. i tryed fausto program with this equipment:dragon box with dragon cam predator 380,season loger 2,last diablo bin by empb as follow pen fausto prog,load the file bin under monitor,select irdeto emulation,select com 1,enter com params atr 9600 data bd 9600 parity none stop bit 1 data bit 8 delay 150,clic connect ,insert season card into cam,wait boot seq message:waiting for card season reset...nothing new.the face card is down(ok).but chanels bulsat irdeto don't open.i have season loger from germany.need power for this yes or no?best
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