[mythtv-users] Where to place satellite receiver?

[Anthony]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Mike Jasper
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:37 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] Where to place satellite receiver?
> 
> For those of you who have satellite receivers (Dish, DirectTV) and run a
> remote frontend - do you keep the receiver right next to the backend?
> Or do you keep it near your A/V equipment and run a feed from it to your
> backend?


I keep my one of DirecTV receivers next to my backend, but I only use one
for PVR purposes.


> 
> What if you have multiple frontends?  Is a single satellite receiver
> hooked into the backend sufficient to handle two or more PVR-250s that
> might be operating simultaneously?


You need one receiver for each PVR-250 that is operating because the
Satellite receiver is what tunes and decodes the channel for you. In this
case you'll really just use the PVR-250's S-Video input and control the
receiver with some sort of external tuner script (configurable in Myth). 


> 
> I'm signing up with Dish Network and for now I'd like to have a single,
> quiet frontend near my A/V equipment and the backend on a server in
> another room.  I'm not sure where I should physically place the
> satellite receiver, because it will influence which walls I hack through
> to bring in the satellite feed.  Just really confused about how to fit
> all of this together! :-(
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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