[mythtv-users] DVB-S2 IP tuner

Simon Hobson linux at thehobsons.co.uk
Sat Jan 4 18:15:08 UTC 2020


Stephen Worthington <stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> For IP tuners, if you have an old PC lying around, you can make our
> own with any tuner(s) that will run in the PC.  Or do it in your
> current MythTV box, which is what I do.  The easiest way is probably
> to install TVHeadEnd and let it run the tuners and make them available
> as IP tuners.  I took a different path and have my DVB-S2 tuners
> available as SAT>IP tuners using minisatip.

I am curious, is there an advantage to doing it either of those ways vs running a MythTV slave backend on the PC instead ?
I see that there's a DVB-T2 hat for the Raspberry Pi, and it would be easy to stick one of those in the attic where I've got access to a spare antenna feed and my network. But is it better to run TVHeadEnd or Myth Backend on it ?

Mind you, I'll need to find time to build a more up to date system first - I'm still running 0.24.1, because it isn't broken :-)

Simon



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