[mythtv-users] Freesat, UK and which internal card ?

[Robert]

On Tue, June 17, 2008 11:42 am, Andrew Williams wrote:
> 2008/6/17 Paul <thannet at gmail.com>:
>> I have the sad state of affairs that Freeview around where I live is
>> marginal to say the least, get so many dropouts with my Nova-T 500 that
>> I am considering going over to Freesat. Can anyone confirm which
>> internal cards work? Quite fancy the idea of HD too. Did read at some
>> stage there where issues with the EPG ?
>
> I've just bought a Technotrend S-1401 which seems to work OK with
> 2.6.24, I've not got my dish up yet to try out the signal but the card
> is detected and I have no nasty error messages.
>
> As for the EPG, I noticed a patch went into trunk last week to decode
> the EIT data. I'm not sure if this is going into -fixes (I've not been
> following the -dev thread) but i'm going to try apply the patch to
> fixes soon.
>

As far as I know any DVB-S card that works with Linux should be fine.  I'm
currently using an HVR-3000 and have just ordered a Technotrend S-1500
which I've read works fine.

In the past, I've got now and next data from EIT scanning, but I mainly
use xmltv to grab listings from the radiotimes website.

Robert.