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[Steven Ellis]

On 30/08/2008, at 8:48 PM, Andrew Richards wrote:

> Ross,
>
> Have you enabled the on-board Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)?
>
> Directly from the Nova T 500 wiki:
>
> sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/options
> /Add:/ options dvb-usb-dib0700 force_lna_activation=1
>
>
> Adding that line at the bottom turns on the amplifier, and will
> hopefully fix your reception problems.
>
> Let us know how you go with H.264 playback!

Yes welcome to the list, and we will all be interested to hear how  
well your system copes with freeview|HD

>
> Andrew
>
> Kenneth Dixon wrote:
>> Hi Ross,
>>
>> The Nova T 500 should work out of the box on 8.04, and
>> mythtv-setup (0.21) should be able to tune in to the DVB-T
>> signal if it's there.
>> It's possible you don't have a strong enough signal, I have
>> had trouble with TV3/C4 in the past due to a weak signal.
>> DVB-T is UHF, so if you get good Prime reception it is
>> likely you can get DVB-T if available (ironically).
>> My only other suggestion would be to try tuning it using the
>> Great Britain setting for tuning.
>>
>> Once tuned, to view the channels properly you will need to
>> get Paul Kendall's patched version of MythTV. He has done a
>> lot of work getting it going for New Zealand's DVB-T and has
>> an Ubuntu repository.
>> just add the line:
>> deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/paul-kcbbs/ubuntu hardy main
>> to the end of:
>> /etc/apt/sources.list
>> then:
>> sudo apt-get update
>> sudo apt-get upgrade
>>
>> let us know how you get on.
>>
>> Good luck, Ken
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message Follows -----
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> My name is Ross.  I live in Hamilton and I am giving
>>> Freeview HD a go on MythTV.  I have built a Home Theatre
>>> PC using the satellite Freeview which worked well.  I am
>>> new to Linux so I also hope to learn more about that too.
>>> Anyway hopefully you guys can help me get my system going.
>>>
>>> I have built a Intel Core2duo E8200, 2G ram dual channel,
>>> 2x500GB HD system with a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 dual
>>> tuner card.  I installed Ubuntu 8.04 64 bit Desktop
>>> version using software raid.  I then installed the MythTV
>>> Master backend and frontend on this system using Synaptic.
>>>
>>> Now I am stuck trying to configure the backend to receive
>>> the channels.  I don't know how to diagnose whether its
>>> because I have configured it incorrectly or because there
>>> is actually no signal. Also there doesn't appear to be any
>>> howtos explaining how to set up Freeview HD at the moment.
>>>
>>> Any links to any howtos or ways to check if I have
>>> everything configured correctly?  Anyone living in
>>> Hamilton?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Ross
>>>
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Steven Ellis - Technical Director
OpenMedia Limited
email   - steven at openmedia.co.nz
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