[mythtv-users] Recommendations for a Twin DVB USB tuner (with remote IR sensor) for UK (HD?) Freeview?

Greg Cope gregcope at gmail.com
Thu Oct 29 21:59:15 UTC 2009


So that is;

+2 USB remote
+1 WinTV-NOVA-TD

Thx

Greg

2009/10/29 Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at googlemail.com>:
> I'd recommend the Nova-TD, I've had it for ages now and had no problems
> with it. The signal strength might be too high which causes prober for
> it (due to the internal amplifier), but that's easily solved by using a
> cheap (£3 from B+Q) V-splitter to half the signal strength and feed the
> two inputs.
>
> For remote, I bought a load of USB Cyberlink remotes from eBuyer at
> £4.99 each. They present as a keyboard so don't need any lirc setup,
> just use xmodmap in your .xsessionrc to map the keys of whichever MythTV
> function you want.
>
> Currently have 4 REVOs (2 single core, 2 dual core) setup with these
> remotes and mounted on the back of TVs/monitors around the house.
>
> I run the Nova-TD along with a bunch of Nova-T's and a PVR-250 (for Sky)
> on a separate backend, and use the REVOs purely as frontend systems for
> MythTV and also login points for use with RF wireless keyboards.
>
> Cheers
> Gordon


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