[mythtvnz] MythTV problems after moving house & installing new Frontend/Backend server
Criggie
criggie at criggie.org.nz
Wed Jul 20 04:51:35 BST 2016
Stephen Worthington wrote:
> That sounds like a problem with your aerial connections. The LNB
> needs power and if there are splitters in the aerial, generally only
> one port of the splitter is marked as "power pass through" or the
> equivalent. So something that provides power needs to be on that
> port. When you attached the signal meter, it may have been on that
> port, so it gave the LNB the power it needs.
WARNING!!! I've fried the internal splitter on a satellite capture card
by plugging in the dish while the machine was running.
So DO NOT plug the dish wire into anything that is powered up!
Turn the server off before connecting or disconnecting the dish!
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Criggie
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