[mythtv-users] Looking to switch to FreeSat from FreeView in the UK

[Another Sillyname]

I've got a backend server with both a quad DVB-T2 and DVB-S2 PCIe
tuner from TBS that's been running years without an issue.  While of
course card failure is always a possibility swapout of a quad TBS card
shouldn't take more then an hour for even the most inaccessible case.

One of the advantages I'd personally make for PCIe over USB is you can
manage the temp of the internals a lot better, also jogging a USB
stick loose is always a possibility while moving the server a few
inches.......

 YMMV

On 31 May 2015 at 22:38, Gordon McCrae <gordon.mccrae at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I'm currently running Myth 0.27 on OpenSuSE, and am looking at switching
> from Freeview to Freesat.
>
> I currently have 4 USB DVB-T (Hauppauge WinTV-NOA-T-Stick) tuners and would
> like to replace them with DVB-S (or maybe DVB-S2) tuners.
>
> Looking at the Wiki, I seem to be limited to a couple of devices:
>
> Turbosight TBS5922/25/80
> Pinnacle PCTV 460/1e
>
> The TurboSight seems to be a more involved device with CAM support etc. and
> external power. This device seems a little unwieldy, currently my Nova-T
> cards need no external power and are stick sized, so I'm not sure I'm keen
> on switching to something that's apparently so bulky.
>
> Looking on the likes of Amazon, all of the Pinnacle devices available seem
> to be from Germany with a few warnings about QWERTZ (that make no sense, as
> why does the keyboard mapping change on a USB stick?!). There are comments
> about an external power supply (which may well be the German reference), but
> it also "seems" to be optional.
>
> Alternatively there's the TBS6984/5 PCIe Quad Tuner device, however I'm
> always a little wary of going down the plugged-in card route, it's much
> easier to change out a single USB stick if it dies than fixing one tuner on
> a multi tuner card, plus if the card goes I lose all tuners. Having said
> that, if that's the only solution then fine.
>
> Does anyone out there have a working USB DVB-S/DVB-S2 setup (or the TBS card
> one), and can recommend a hardware config? I appears that the same "multiple
> channels per multiplex" rule from DVB-T applies here, so I assume I will
> only need 4 tuners, but I suppose that depends on how many channels per
> multiplex there are.
>
> Cheers
> Gordon
>
>
>
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