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Hi to all,
i am planning to create a system to do 8 channel recording.
can you provide help with this? i am new to all this.
i will create a new system for this and i can use external array or ssd stripe if needed.
my current plan is a core i5 7th generation, 8gb ram with either intel graphics or some nvidia if needed.
which tv tuner cards do you suggest?
i need to simultaneously record 8 different greek tv channels.
Regarding addons... i will install kodi and then what? i read about tvfrontend, vdr, pvr... i got lost... what should i use?
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My setup Amlogic s905x with CoreELEC and Tvheadend. Digibit r1 with 4 sat tuners .
And some client boxes around the house to view tv with Kodi
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2022-12-23, 13:51
(This post was last modified: 2022-12-23, 13:59 by noggin. Edited 2 times in total.)
I built an Intel Linux TV Headend back-end with 9 DVB-T/T2 tuner dongles for the 9 RF muxes that were broadcast at that time in the London, UK area. I had to roll my own Linux kernel as the default DVB subsystem maxes out at 8 adapters (it's trivial to change this when you configure your Linux kernel build)
I had 3 x Playstation TV Dual DVB-T tuners for PSB 1 & 2 (BBC / ITV / C4 / C5 SD services) and for COM 4,5,6 and Local (the other DVB-T SD muxes). I then used a Win TV Dual HD for the DVB-T2 COM 7 and COM 8 muxes (both now ended which carried a mix of BBC HD and other HD and SD services) and an August T230 for DVB-T2 PSB 3 (carrying BBC/ITV/C4/C5 HD services). All fed from a rooftop antenna via a small amplifier splitter, and connected to the Chromebox I was running Linux on via a powered USB hub. (Probably unnecessary)
As others have said - you should only need one tuner per RF frequency - hence I had 9 tuners for 9 frequencies / muxes (allowing me to record any of the many TV and Radio services available at that point on the UK platform OTA)
These days I have switched to a Quad Tuner HD-Homerun and a Dual Tuner HD-Homerun set-up - on the basis that will handle most of my requirements. I also have an 8-tuner SAT>IP receiver. This means my TV Headend server gets all of its TV streams over the Ethernet network feeding it, and has no need for DVB drivers or USB tuners. I run the DVB-T/T2 and DVB-S/S2 tuners on separate TV Headend platforms so as to keep things simple.