[mythtv-users] How to limit 2xDVB-S (+DiSEqC) to 1 LNB at a time?

[Simon Hobson]

David Lister wrote:

>  > Not that I have a lot of experience with DVB-S setups and DiSEq, but it
>>  seems to me that on the adapter (or settopbox) "side" of the switch can
>>  only be a single tuner. It seems to me there are only two solutions:
>>
>>  1) Remove the switch and run two coax cables from each tuner to each LNB
>>  (1 to 1 connections)
>>  2) Make the LNBs twin LNBs, add a second switch and have both tuners
>>  connect through a switch to these twin LNBs
>>
>>  The first one would be the least expensive, but the second gives more
>>  flexibility in recordings. Your current setup can maybe be used if you
>>  use inputgroups:
>>
>>  http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-12.html#ss12.6
>>
>
>I thought as much. Actually, I have quattro LNB's and I feed the
>whole house via the multiswitch. Quattros with their fixed outputs
>served by the switch alone was the most scalable solution I could
>find.

Yes, it is the most scalable - it's what large installations (like 
blocks of flats/apartments) use to allow many users access to one 
dish. I intend going that route when I get around to putting up a 
dish for freesat. But ...

>Unfortunately, each room is provided with just one cable.

... it falls down if you run less cables than you need from the switch.


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