[mythtv-users] Anyone using a TBS6985?

[Tim Draper]

On 22 January 2013 18:55, Jelte Veldstra <jelte.veldstra at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Mark Gardner <Mark at thegardners.me.uk>
> wrote:
> > I have read several success stories with the TBS6984 DVB-S2 Quad Tuner,
> > but it has been replaced by the TBS6985. The manufacturer's website says
> > the 6985 is compatible with MythTV, but I am unable to find any success
> > stories....
> >
> > Can anyone put my mind at rest please?
> >
>
> No experience with the TBS products. I read about the drivers provided
> by TBS can be a pain to work with as they're maintained by them and
> are not open source. On the other hand when it works for your kernel
> then you're set.
>
> Personally I have been a happy user of the Digital Devices Cine S2 v5
> PCI-e DVB-S2 twin adapter. The kernel recognized it without manually
> compiling drivers, but then under MythTV multirec would fail. Oliver
> Endriss is a developer who created a special branche for these devices
> and using his drivers multirec works great too. Digital devices now
> sells v6 and v6.5 of these products (the later revisions can be
> configured as quad tunercards as well), but as far as I can see using
> the drivers of Oliver Endriss all revisions should work well under
> Linux. Being such a happy user I ordered a DVB-C/T combo PCI-e adapter
> of Digital Devices as well. Hopefully it comes in later this week so I
> can use it on my DVB-C recordings.
>

I've got the TBS 6981 (dual tuner), and it's been flawless and would
instantly purchase another TBS card without consideration.

Drivers are kernel specific, so you either need to re-compile on kernel
change, or lock yourself on a kernel.

Nothing but praise from me for TBS :)
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