2013-06-22, 22:07
USB DVB-S2 tuners are quite pricey and single tuner so need to grab few of these and I'm not sure how the usb bus will handle mutliple hd ts from couple of devices.
On the other hand pci/x cards are much more affordable, got more features and you can get up to 4 tuners in a card.
So the scales tip to pci cards but this doesn't fit my low cost Arm devices like Pogoplug Series 4 as a server or G-Box Midnight as XBMC client.
I also had my share of patching kernels, compiling custom kernels and the s2-liliplian crap and I just want a plug & play device with mainline kernel.
By the looks of it the Geniatech HD Star DVB-S2 seems to fit my needs, cheap (50$ with shipping, so 4~6 devices won't break my piggybank) and supported by mainline kernel.
Now I only need to install a sat dish
(I can grab some freeview sat channels from a premium service but I really need to move to private dish)
If anyone got the device and willing to share his thoughts on it please post here.
Now for the ranting...
I believe that the most affordable, flexible and growable apporach that would support multiple devices (including portables) for XBMC dvb-s2 pvr would be:
1. To have one server with at least two tuners for recording and streaming to portable devices.
2. Clients with one tuner each for only watching while recording are made on the server.
The big issue is that the pvr backend (tvheadend, vdr ...) aren't smart enough regarding multiple servers (maybe except mythtv) so this isn't possible yet.
So the current solutions would be:
a. One servers with multiple tuners for all the clients, you'll need at least micro atx form factor to be flexible in regards to tuners number, not compact nor low powered enough for me.
b. Dual tuners on all the clients to be able to record while watch on another transponder or have only one client with dual tuner and limit the recording function to it.
p.s. Link for the Geniatech device
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/...17215.html
p.s. 2 ordered the device (yep, impulse buying) and will update (slowish Chinese shipping) if this works out of the box on linux (with the tvheadend magic) probably with one of my Pogoplugs or Raspberries.
p.s. 3 Anyone know what is this device (like uid,gid) ? for 25$ I was considering getting this just to find out the id's but it surely will find it's way into the trash (the psu will probably dive first after a little teardown).
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digital-S...03104.html
On the other hand pci/x cards are much more affordable, got more features and you can get up to 4 tuners in a card.
So the scales tip to pci cards but this doesn't fit my low cost Arm devices like Pogoplug Series 4 as a server or G-Box Midnight as XBMC client.
I also had my share of patching kernels, compiling custom kernels and the s2-liliplian crap and I just want a plug & play device with mainline kernel.
By the looks of it the Geniatech HD Star DVB-S2 seems to fit my needs, cheap (50$ with shipping, so 4~6 devices won't break my piggybank) and supported by mainline kernel.
Now I only need to install a sat dish
(I can grab some freeview sat channels from a premium service but I really need to move to private dish)If anyone got the device and willing to share his thoughts on it please post here.
Now for the ranting...
I believe that the most affordable, flexible and growable apporach that would support multiple devices (including portables) for XBMC dvb-s2 pvr would be:
1. To have one server with at least two tuners for recording and streaming to portable devices.
2. Clients with one tuner each for only watching while recording are made on the server.
The big issue is that the pvr backend (tvheadend, vdr ...) aren't smart enough regarding multiple servers (maybe except mythtv) so this isn't possible yet.
So the current solutions would be:
a. One servers with multiple tuners for all the clients, you'll need at least micro atx form factor to be flexible in regards to tuners number, not compact nor low powered enough for me.
b. Dual tuners on all the clients to be able to record while watch on another transponder or have only one client with dual tuner and limit the recording function to it.
p.s. Link for the Geniatech device
http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/...17215.html
p.s. 2 ordered the device (yep, impulse buying) and will update (slowish Chinese shipping) if this works out of the box on linux (with the tvheadend magic) probably with one of my Pogoplugs or Raspberries.
p.s. 3 Anyone know what is this device (like uid,gid) ? for 25$ I was considering getting this just to find out the id's but it surely will find it's way into the trash (the psu will probably dive first after a little teardown).
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digital-S...03104.html
