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Hi, I'm currently running Myth 0.27 on OpenSuSE, and am looking at
switching from Freeview to Freesat.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
Looking at the Wiki, I seem to be limited to a couple of devices:<br>
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<li>Turbosight TBS5922/25/80</li>
<li>Pinnacle PCTV 460/1e</li>
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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-TÂ 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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Gordon<br>
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