[mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 fails to tune

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Pshem Kowalczyk <pshem.k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 14 January 2011 08:54, Brendan Dacre <bjdacre at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 13 January 2011 23:18, Brett <mythicalbeast at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
>>> I've got the old card.
>>> Never had a problem with 1.20 firmware but I never use the internal IR
>>> receiver functionality.
>>
>>
>> I now have the card in a separate box (for testing purposes, I don't want to
>> break my working server).
>> My testing now leaves me pessimistic that I will get it working.
>> In summary, the drivers appear to load and the card registers and is
>> recognized by the software I am using, including mythtv.  At first I thought
>> it was a signal issue and tried different aerials, but on closer
>> examination, I noticed that actually mythtv (and tzap) were reporting 0%
>> signal on the same aerial that another card was reporting 50% signal.  So I
>> now think there is a card fault with the aerial connector...
>> Oh well, unless someone tells me that my conclusion is wrong, I am not going
>> to waste a lot more time on this card.
>
>
> I bought that card (with a single connector) last year. After about 3
> moths of fighting with poor reception (albeit only on the TVNZ
> multiplex) I returned the card as faulty and got it replaced with the
> 'dual connector' one. That one didn't perform any better, and
> ultimately I got the HVR-2200 that worked beautifully from the first
> kick. I still use the Nova, but just for recording from the non-TVNZ
> multiplexes.
> In my opinion the card is simply not that great and there are others
> out there that perform much better.

That seems to be a common conclusion when discussing this card (either version)