Finding a TV satellite or an antenna, in azimuth, can be pretty difficult. Using your GPS location, magnetic variation, compass azimuth, and satellite position, you must perform some calculations before you can locate it with a compass. Satellite Director replaces all of that. Learn how to succeed below. To determine the satellite’s position in the sky, access to sensor data—such as GPS location and compass—is necessary. Access to internal/external storage is required to store a screenshot or to store a changed list of satellites (you can delete/add/change satellites).
To replicate a “look through view” or “mirror effect,” which permits aligning the satellite dish (lnb arm) with the displayed arrow, access to a camera is required. No personal or non-personal data are collected or shared by Satellite Director. Satellite Director does not advertise in any way. In Portuguese, this application cannot be installed on phones without a battery. Warning: You must have a compass on your phone or tablet! WITHOUT COMPASS YOU CANNOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP.
Make use of the “Satellite Locator” to locate a satellite by utilizing GPS locations. Compare your phone or tablet compass to a real compass because some of them are awful! Unfortunately, before using the compass, you must calibrate it. The compass on your phone or tablet will be influenced or disrupted by covers or cases made of metal or with a metal or magnetic closure. Use these covers not at all! Your phone’s compass can also become inaccurate due to other electro-magnetic fields, iron, or age-related deterioration. It’s possible that calibrating the compass no longer helps. Precision depends on the quality of your phone’s hardware. Be aware that if you use Cyanogenmod or Cymod, the app may not work because of compatibility issues with Android. After that, you should complain to Cyanogenmod or Cymod rather than me.
This app has no ads! Help me to continue the work on this app and watch some of my videos on Youtube. The advertisements in the videos provide some of the necessary funds (testing phones, hours worked, satellite equipment, etc.). How does it function? To target (find) the TV satellite, simply enable your phone’s GPS or enter your GPS location, select the desired antenna or TV satellite location, and point your phone to the sky. When the white ball is in the white circle and the cyan ball is in the cyan circle, you have found the satellite. The satellite dish is aligned in azimuth with the satellite when the offset arm is aligned with the cyan arrow on the phone’s display. Selectable audio tone, camera preview, continuous mode (no pause), color pickers or a user defined satellite position may make it easier for you to find the desired TV satellite. There are 280 satellites on the list of satellites.
Optionally, you can touch the director tab to take a photo (resized) or screen shot. The photo/screenshot is ONLY stored on the phones memory card.
Optional: a green, yellow, or red bar can be used to warn you when you’re too close to an iron (pole) or dish. The database of Agi is used to derive satellite positions. Some positions may seem not accurate (example: Hispasat 30°w is at 29.96°w in the satellite list) but they are very accurate.
In the event of a wrong compass reading, the “Settings” screen on new Android 4 phones offers options to correct the reading! From my website, you can access earlier versions. Please send an email if you have any questions, requests, or issues. Google Translator performed all language translations. 3 tips to success:
1- Stay at least 30 centimeters away from the iron dish, iron lnb arm, or iron pole. 2- calibrate the compass of the phone by waving it in a figure 8 before you start
3- optional: calibrate the phone’s compass by rolling it about two to three turns along its length axis (works with some phones).
