[mythtv-users] Free-to-Air Satellite Service

[James Hall]

I have a 70cm dish that used to work fine for FTA stuff, but I haven't used
it in years. It's a little bigger than your run of the mill Dish... dishes
though.

On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:25 PM, Tom Hayward <esarfl at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Raymond Boettcher
> <raymondboettcher at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I just recently got 2 Satellite Dish's that were originally used for Dish
> > Network and was debating on using them to setup Free-to-air Satellite
> > Service at my house.  However, it seems that there are a few different
> > formats that are used for Satellite.  But according to what I have
> > researched it seems I need a DVB-S2 Tuner/Decoder card in order to make
> this
> > work.  I just wanted to know if there was anyone here that is also using
> > Free-to-air Satellite Service that has managed to make this work with
> MythTV
> > (in the US).
>
> The Dish dishes are likely too small to be effective with FTA signals.
> FTA signals are typically very weak.
>
> > I found a website that talks about this very extensively, but it seems
> > they are not from the United States.  They also recommended a few S2
> Cards
> > that work flawlessly with Linux/MythTV, so I'm considering buying one of
> > those tuner cards to expand my MythTV Channel Service.  I just want to
> make
> > sure that a S2 Card is what I should be using in the United States.
>
> Yes, DVB-S2 is what you want.
>
> > I was also looking through Schedules Direct and it doesn't seem that
> > Free-to-air is listed as one of the options, however, several other
> > satellite providers are listed and one of them looks like one of the
> > providers for Free-to-air.  However, I know that Free-to-air does
> transmit
> > EPG Data over their stream and hopefully I'm right in assuming that
> leaving
> > the tuner set to EIT Scan will also work with a Satellite Tuner Card as
> > well.
>
> Schedules Direct is working on FTA support. I was setting up equipment
> so I could help with an alpha test and ended up not being able to
> receive must (see weak signals above).
>
> Tom
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