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<div>Agreed. The thing about boosters is, if your signal is weak at the</div>
<div>antenna, all the boosting in the world won't help you. But, if there</div>
<div>IS enough signal at the first booster, then you can boost it and split</div>
<div>it for a whole bunch of tuners and get a decent signal at all of them</div>
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<div>Boosters overcome signal loss inherent in long cable runs and</div>
<div>splitters. You can never get a better signal coming out than went in</div>
<div>to it, but if you have acceptable signal now, there should be zero</div>
<div>issues with a quality 4-way splitter/booster replacing your current</div>
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<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">> All true - assuming that your new antenna is directional with high gain</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">> and pointed at the required transmitter, and that its head amp is</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">> powered and working. And in that case I would say there's a good chance</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">> that all you need now is a passive splitter - and another use for the</div>
<div style="font-family: Consolas; font-size: medium; ">> RPi :-)</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Okay, the signal is weak coming out of the active masthead amplifier, but I hadn't thought to check how it performed if I used the masthead's internal splitter at that point. I'd forgotten it
had an internal splitter. FYI, I'm in the shadow of a hill on one side and have a island between me and the other, distant, transmitter.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Let's ignore the antenna issue and just assume the signal is peachy… either from splitting at the masthead or using a separate antenna with it's own short run to the garage.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>What I'm more interested in is whether:</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">1. Would a Raspberry Pi be a reasonable platform to consider for a mythtv slave backend ?, or if not: </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">2. Are there any plans to allow a mythtv backend to use tvheadend as a remote tuner ? </span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>If there's no one out there with experience of 1) I guess I'll try it and see. It would seem that for 2) a mythbackend tuner module that could talk to a remote tvheadend would be a good thing…
but maybe I'm misunderstanding the exact functionality tvheadend provides… I reckon I need to do a bit more research.</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Anyway, many thanks to all those on the list who responded… good stuff!</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Cheers,</div>
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<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Doug</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>"the big print giveth and the small print taketh away"</div>
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