[mythtvnz] Apple TV 4th Gen with mythtv server

[Rama Madhusudhan]

Thanks all for your info really appreciate it, I think I shall go with
Network tuner but I still need to figure out the hardware .

Thanks
Rama

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:44 PM, Stephen Worthington <
stephen_agent at jsw.gen.nz> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 15:29:54 +1300, you wrote:
>
> >
> >Stephen Worthington wrote:
> >> Actually, you can network the physical tuners using minisatip or
> >> tvheadend and SAT>IP protocol.  MythTV does not yet support doing
> >> tuning using the SAT>IP protocol, but that might be coming in v30. But
> >> I have been able to network my DVB-S2 tuners using minisatip and some
> >> Python software I wrote to create the channel and iptv_channel table
> >> entries I needed.  When I have some spare time, I am working on
> >> generalising the Python a bit so that it will be able to be used by
> >> other people too.  But I am not there yet.  Using minisatip allows me
> >> to use the same tuners anywhere on my network, and also it does the
> >> Sky TV decryption.
> >
> >Nice - still requires a PC running somewhere though.  A networked receiver
> >will play with VMs exactly the same, but will give HD and use less power.
>
> Having just installed a TBS6209 8 tuner DVB-T2 card alongside my
> TBS6909 8 tuner DVB-S2 card, I now also have DVB-T2 tuners via SAT>IP.
> needed at least 4 DVB-T tuners since I started getting clashes when
> Maori TV moved to a new mux, so I decided to have 5 so I could record
> all muxes at once.  That would have involved problems with getting
> enough signal from my aerial to 5 single tuners at once.  So getting
> the TBS6209 which uses just one aerial input for all 8 tuners seemed
> like a good idea.
>
> Yes, it requires a PC, but then I need that anyway to get the
> processor power to decode Sky (I can be recording up to 10 channels of
> Sky at once during the pre- and post-roll overlap periods).
>
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