[mythtvnz] What DVB-T tuners are people using?

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2022 13:28:22 +1200, you wrote:

>> On Fri, 3 Jun 2022 15:49:44 +1200, you wrote:
>>
>>>I've currently got a Hauppauge HVR-2200 dual tuner that I think is
>>>failing, which is understandable as the card is about 12 years old.
>>>
>>>I do have a spare Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD USB Tuner I usually have for
>>>debugging and travelling I can use for now, but I was wondering what is
>>>popular in the DVB-T area these days. There doesn't appear to be a lot on
>>>offer.
>>>
>>>Steven
>>
>> There is not much for sale in NZ, and the variety available worldwide
>> seems to have decreased also.  I am using a TBS6209 8 tuner card:
>>
>> https://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs6209-dvb-t2-c2-tc-isdbt-octatv-tuner.html
>>
>> That is now an older card in the TBS lineup - there are now cards with
>> even wider multi-standard support such as the TBS6209se (which does
>> ATSC as well) and the TBS6508 which does not do ATSC but instead does
>> both all the DVB-T/C standards and all the DVB-S standards.
>>
>> For my Sky recordings, I am using a TBS6909 8 tuner DVB-S2 card:
>>
>> https://www.tbsdtv.com/products/tbs6909-dvb-s2-8-tuner-pcie-card.html
>>
>> This is set up to use minisatip to do decryption using my Sky card,
>> and MythTV uses rtsp: URLs on IPTV tuners to tune the channels via
>> Sat>IP.  This is not using the v32 Sat>IP support as I was doing it
>> well before v32.
>>
>
>Wow. Serious cards. Hardly use any of my tuners these days a lot of
>recordings I just pull off IPTV streams
> - https://github.com/steven-ellis/mypvr-nz-iptv
>
>DVB-S is handy for EIT data, and I've reasonably reliable DVB-T so I tend
>to use that for TV3 as their streams are so low quality.

It is rare for me to be using five DVB-T tuners at once, but using
four at once is quite common.  For Sky it is common to be using four
tuners at once and at times I have several weeks where it is using
five at once one or two times per week.  I even had a day a month ago
where it ran out of tuners with only five to use and needed to
schedule one recording for a later time.

Thanks for putting your NZ IPTV setup on github - it looks very
useful.  I did notice your comment about mythfilldatabase adding
unwanted channels.  There is an easy way to prevent that - just add
the option "--only-update-guide" to the mythfilldatabase command line.