Hello all,
My previous mail to this ML is apparently dated 2011 ;-) Everything was OK there since then... Except that my Hauppauge Nova-T-500 died recently, and my ancient PCI cards do not work in the 2013 server.
I'm looking for advice for a new DVB-T2 device, which should : * have a good tuner, because some channels (transponders, ie. frequencies) are difficult to catch here ; the TV set (Panasonic) works perfectly well, and I've added an RF amplifier on the roof, so I guess the Nova-T-500 tuner was not good enough * have a PCI or preferably PCI-e bus, and dual tuner (I don't really like USB sticks, which tend to lead to a mess of cable) * be robustly supported with stock kernels in Debian (jessie and future), which does not seem to be a problem anymore...
If there are some dual-tuner, DVB-T2 + S2 card out there which are well supported by VDR, that's OK too. I may prefer to add another DVB-S2 card later on though (there is no sat-dish on the roof yet).
TIA !
Hi,
I use TBS6280 (dual tuner, pci-e) from Turbosight in dvb-t mode (no dvb-t2 signal here): good card, not expensive and great technical support. Newer model is TBS 6281 :
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/TBS6281
I hope it helps. Regards.
-----Message d'origine----- De : vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] De la part de Nicolas Huillard Envoyé : jeudi 17 septembre 2015 14:01 À : vdr@linuxtv.org Objet : [vdr] DVB-T2 device in France
Hello all,
My previous mail to this ML is apparently dated 2011 ;-) Everything was OK there since then... Except that my Hauppauge Nova-T-500 died recently, and my ancient PCI cards do not work in the 2013 server.
I'm looking for advice for a new DVB-T2 device, which should : * have a good tuner, because some channels (transponders, ie. frequencies) are difficult to catch here ; the TV set (Panasonic) works perfectly well, and I've added an RF amplifier on the roof, so I guess the Nova-T-500 tuner was not good enough * have a PCI or preferably PCI-e bus, and dual tuner (I don't really like USB sticks, which tend to lead to a mess of cable) * be robustly supported with stock kernels in Debian (jessie and future), which does not seem to be a problem anymore...
If there are some dual-tuner, DVB-T2 + S2 card out there which are well supported by VDR, that's OK too. I may prefer to add another DVB-S2 card later on though (there is no sat-dish on the roof yet).
TIA !
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On 17.9.2015 15:01, Nicolas Huillard wrote:
I use an USB tuner "PCTV Systems nanoStick T2 290e" from Hauppauge. It has a good Sony tuner, and DVB-T2 in my setup works fine even with an desktop antenna (the broadcast mast is in visible range though).
Driver is in kernel, and this was the first Linux tuner for DVB-T2 and supported even in the older kernels. I use it in a Raspberry Pi 2 with two DVB-C tuners and I'm all happy.
I have a 290e I use for DVB-T2 reception and it has worked really well for some time now. Shame you can't buy them anymore :-(
On 19 September 2015 at 10:21, Jari Fredriksson jarif@iki.fi wrote:
Thanks for all your answers !
I finally opted for the Digital Devices Octopus Net, which DVT-T2 tuners are equipped with Sony D2837ER demodulators, which happen to completely solve the bad reception issue. Great !
Now I have a whole new set of problems : SAT>IP (with the satip plugin which seems to be great, and channel scan which is as of now non-solved ; too bad the Octopus couldn't channel-scan by itself and provide an initial channel.conf or VLC playlist) and Raspberry Pi client which is a bit tricky (power issues, media player, disappointingly weak CEC support on the TV side, etc...).
At least, I can upgrade the VDR server without breaking the DVB kernel drivers, and upgrade the VDR client without breaking X.org or xinelib ;-)
Le lundi 21 septembre 2015 à 15:37 +0100, Stuart Morris a écrit :
Hi. You can try this http://linuxdvb.org.ru/wbb/index.php?page=Thread&postID=26946#post26946
This is reelchannelscan fork, it can scan on sat>ip device.
В Пн, 28/09/2015 в 12:18 +0200, Nicolas Huillard пишет:
Hi Nicolas,
per specs channel scan is not inteded for the SAT>IP servers, this is client's responsibility.
VDR doesn't provide an active channel scan option, so don't blame and point just the plugin, which does run awesome stable here since spring 2014.
VDR does provide a passive channel scan, only caveat you need at least one working line in channels.conf. If you have that, go to OSD / Setup / DVB and set "Update channels:" to "add new transponders" (setup.conf / UpdateChannels = 5). After some time of patience you should find a properly filled channels.conf, ready to be sorted.
Cheers Frank
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] Im Auftrag von Nicolas Huillard Gesendet: Montag, 28. September 2015 12:18 An: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Betreff: Re: [vdr] DVB-T2 device in France
Thanks for all your answers !
I finally opted for the Digital Devices Octopus Net, which DVT-T2 tuners are equipped with Sony D2837ER demodulators, which happen to completely solve the bad reception issue. Great !
Now I have a whole new set of problems : SAT>IP (with the satip plugin which seems to be great, and channel scan which is as of now non-solved ; too bad the Octopus couldn't channel-scan by itself and provide an initial channel.conf or VLC playlist) and Raspberry Pi client which is a bit tricky (power issues, media player, disappointingly weak CEC support on the TV side, etc...).
At least, I can upgrade the VDR server without breaking the DVB kernel drivers, and upgrade the VDR client without breaking X.org or xinelib ;-)
Le lundi 21 septembre 2015 à 15:37 +0100, Stuart Morris a écrit :
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Le lundi 28 septembre 2015 à 12:55 +0200, fnu a écrit :
per specs channel scan is not inteded for the SAT>IP servers, this is client's responsibility.
I fully understand this point, but since the Octopus has a web interface and apparently also acts as a DLNA DMS, I think it could be a nice addition to have at least basic channel scanning, just to provide a smoother starting with the device (which is neally neat in every other aspects).
I don't "blame" anything, and I trust that plugin to work flawlessly. I still have power supply issues on the Raspberry Pi which masks all that stability ;-) As of now, this is a task for the soldering iron.
That's what I tried, with the channel.conf I have from the VDR server, but it didn't catch newer channels, even though "some time" was a day or two. I suspect this is something related to MANUAL.gz stating "Note that adding new transponders only works if the "EPG scan" is active.", and the fact that EPG is currently meant to be shared from the VDR server, and apparently not working... Even UpdateChannels = 4 didn't add anything.
I'll deal with this and bother the ML if I can't manage it ;-)
Nicolas,
ok, two points just for my couriousity.
1. Why don't you share channels.conf from your server as you do it with EPG data? 2. Why don't you enable EPG scan just for a few hours for the channels scan and delete epg.data afterwards again?
By chance I tested the same a couple of days ago on my Octopus (DVBS-8) and it took just 20min to fill the channels.conf with ~1300 channels from Astra 19.2°E ...
Regards Frank
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org [mailto:vdr-bounces@linuxtv.org] Im Auftrag von Nicolas Huillard Gesendet: Montag, 28. September 2015 16:40 An: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Betreff: Re: [vdr] DVB-T2 device in France
Le lundi 28 septembre 2015 à 12:55 +0200, fnu a écrit :
per specs channel scan is not inteded for the SAT>IP servers, this is client's responsibility.
I fully understand this point, but since the Octopus has a web interface and apparently also acts as a DLNA DMS, I think it could be a nice addition to have at least basic channel scanning, just to provide a smoother starting with the device (which is neally neat in every other aspects).
I don't "blame" anything, and I trust that plugin to work flawlessly. I still have power supply issues on the Raspberry Pi which masks all that stability ;-) As of now, this is a task for the soldering iron.
That's what I tried, with the channel.conf I have from the VDR server, but it didn't catch newer channels, even though "some time" was a day or two. I suspect this is something related to MANUAL.gz stating "Note that adding new transponders only works if the "EPG scan" is active.", and the fact that EPG is currently meant to be shared from the VDR server, and apparently not working... Even UpdateChannels = 4 didn't add anything.
I'll deal with this and bother the ML if I can't manage it ;-)
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Le lundi 28 septembre 2015 à 18:30 +0200, fnu a écrit :
I did, but this channel.conf is very old, and lack some channels. I wanted to take the chance to update it. It's strange that I never managed to have it up to date though (even with the old existing server), so it must be me somehow...
I'll do that ASAP... IIRC, I may have disabled EPG scan because EPG is awful in France, and more so on terrestrial... I have EPG downloaded from the web instead.
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