[mythtv-users] Two Nova-T cards?
Jules Gosnell
jules at coredevelopers.net
Wed Nov 23 10:13:46 EST 2005
Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 09:50 +0000, Jules Gosnell wrote:
>
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>>I have two NOVA-Ts (different chipsets). Individually they both work
>>fine. When I put them both in together, my signal seemed seriously
>>degraded and MythTV seemed to get pretty confused (perhaps because it
>>could not tune the cards) - chaos ensued, myth fell apart, so I took out
>>one of the cards.
>>
>>
>
>How are you feeding the signals into those cards? Remember if you are
>using a passive spitter you are throwing away half the power and
>supplying each card with 25% of the power of a direct connection.
>
>
The Connexant card has coax in and out sockets, The Phillips only has an
in socket so I pass the coax direct from my external aerial into the
Connexant card and thence, via a short piece of coax, into the Philips card.
I figured whatever I did, I was in trouble as my signal is not the
greatest - but this way I figured that at least the connexant would get
100% of what was going. Unfortunately, the Philips card ended up as card
#0 and the Connexant #1 (or is it #1 and #2), So i think Myth was trying
the card with the weaker signal first and possibly getting upset when it
couldn't get a channel on it.
Thinking back, I'm pretty sure that I retuned both of them from
mythtvsetup when I put the second in, without a problem....
Would someone mind outlining the best procedure in terms of getting a
good signal to both cards and anything else relevant ....
thanks for your time,
Jules
>If you have done something more ad-lib then you could be losing even
>more of the signal.
>
> Nigel.
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