MiniTiouner Kit MTK1 Instructions.

[G4GUO]

I am surprised you have not had people camping outside your house Colin.

- Charles

[G4KLB]

Now that you mention it,there were a lot of tents around this morning, they are packing up now, some event in Basingstoke I overheard

[G8XZD-TV]

Managed to get my minitioune fully working. I could tune it, set the sr, and see the constellation but no video. I thought it was a problem with the streaming part of it but having looked at two receivers yesterday at wimborne i came to the conclusion that the usb module wasn't programmed right

I had a look with the programming tool and found it was at factory default So took a chance at programming it in situ. Seemed ok and now works fine

Thanks to everyone who made suggestions

Now just need to box it up

73. Ian.

[g6crf]

I've now got all the bits except the Nim socket so I was built it all up as far as STEP 7 in the testing instructions.

I uploaded the config to the FT2232H although it says in FT_PROG Device 0 is an FT232R and Device 1 is the FT2232H.

Anyway I start up mintiouner 1.0g and nothing happens. I can see it in task manager but no window opens.

USB Serial Converter A and B in device manager show drivers as FTDI driver V2.12.6.0 .

The voltages on the board all appear stable.

I don't get the message about the nim not being found.

Any ideas anyone, btw I am running Win 7 x64 Utlimate.

Thanks
Terry
G6CRF

[g8gtz]

OK - maybe there was fault with the programming the latest batch before I sent them out. I won't ship anymore before I check them.

It is perfectly safe to reprogram them in the mini tune board - I am away today but Colin KLB has all the details and will post how to do it.

No problem if you would rather send the unit back....

73

Noel

[g6crf]

Hi Brian, The FT2232H was purchased by myself from the manufacturer, so it came unprogrammed. I did follow the programming advice on the Tutoiune website and it did appear to work as predicted. The only difference is that it came up as Device 1 in FT_PROG rather than 0. I have lots of USB things connected to that machine so I am not sure what bit of kit Device 0 is, I'll have to start unplugging things to see if I can find out what it is. Even worse I have also had lots of different things connected in the past and I have had some driver clashes, so maybe there are issues there.

Maybe I need to find a relatively unpolluted machine and try it on there.

Cheers
Terry

[g6crf]

Sorry all, it appears that it is my computer that is the issue.

Having moved over to a relatively new build window 7 laptop I find that everything works fine.

Sorry to have raised a false alarm.

Regards
Terry

[G6JIE]

Thanks to all for their hard work on getting this kit together for members. Having built mine I'm having some problems getting a video stream on VLC.
I've tried every option for selecting the video stream but still no joy.
I've done a couple of screen dumps and wondered if anyone can throw any light on the issue.
All help appreciated.
73 Dave

[G4EWJ]

You seem to have bytes received bottom right. Does that continue to increase? It is possible to have 8 green lights and still have a problem with connections on the pcb with the parallel bus to the FT2232H. I was helping a local over the phone and he was getting 8 greens - but the 74HC10 wasn't fitted.

ISS should be unticked, but I don't think that's a problem.

Can you click the Record button and check that a file appears in the MiniTioune folder. Try to play that with VLC. Post it on here and we can have a look at it.

I can't see anything untoward. Which Windows is that? It could possibly be a firewall problem.

Brian

[G4EWJ]

After selecting the network stream in VLC, does the play button at the bottom left of VLC change to a pause button? If not, VLC is not receiving anything.

Ignore my comment about the ISS button. I can see that it is not ticked.

Brian