[mythtvnz] Nova-T 500 fails to tune

[Jonathan Hoskin]

> 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)

Agreed. I have since sold my 2x cards, but they worked fine as long as I had tons of signal strength. They are no good if you have a weak signal or bad infrastructure.

I now have an EyeTV Diversity, and it works fine on bunny ears inside my house, which is something the Nova couldn't do.