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

[Gordon McCrae]

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:

 1. Turbosight TBS5922/25/80
 2. 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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