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Here's my first DVB-S installation, as of last weekend... Just setup with a hastily-thrown coax to ensure it worked and could see the satellites I wanted to receive. More to come this weekend with a multibracket installation with 2 singles and a dual, feeding 3 PCI DVB-S cards and one Fortec Dual. The receiver and one card on 28.3/5 degrees, the other two on 19 and 13.
Dish is a 90cm Fortec Maplin-special, complete with shipping dent, and the supplied LNB. IPTV head end is a P4 running MythTV, 2x DVB-T PCI, 1-DVB-T usb, 1-Analogue PAL card, 1 DVB-S PCI at the moment... 1TB storage via a RaidZone NAS and another 300gb on board. The frontends diskless boot off the headend. OS is a custom gentoo installation for both the shared frontend O/S and the head. Apologies for the cheap amplifier present in the pic, that's long gone, replaced by a mast-head amp in the loft, a coax recable in the house and decent splitters! The DVB-S isn't shown there either. |
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Oooh, the Fortec star Beta, I recognise that!
Nice and easy to use. (until it goes wrong) and I have the same (90cm)dish, which multibracket did you use, was it the Maplin one? Your dish looks smaller than mine though, it must be the distance away. Is there a specfic reason why you have so many sat cards? when a Diseqc switch could be used. Robbo |
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Wow, that's a crazy setup. I thought my network capacity was OTT! :clap:
If only I could raise the cash for all those lovely tunery-type gadgets. You do need more screens though ![]() Thanks for sharing the pics.
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The three DVB-T tuners still deadlock the scheduler if we're watching one channel at the moment now and again, hence the sat card on 28 for the BBC and ITV stuff. The other two sat cards are a bit of an experiment really, along with all of this satellite malarkey, to see what can be found, as it were... Quote:
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Cheers for the comments, it's good to know I'm not completely daft! ![]() PS: Quote:
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