Re: [LUG] DVB-S via old Sky Disk [Linux + tvheadend]

[Steven CÃtà via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Does anyone know for sure if an old Sky dish (as in, Sky ceased
>provisioning the paid service X years ago but left all the kit in place)
>can provide a working output that can be fed into a Linux machine?

I've run a MythTV box off an old Sky installation for years. So yeah, it definitely should work without modification. Basically, Freesat is just the branding for a tuner that pulls in all the unencrypted channels on the Sky satellites and bundles them up with a digital tv guide (that's not strictly true, but it's close enough for this conversation).

If you have a scan running and it's reporting back anything positive, then the frequencies it's reporting should work. Having said that, even if you specifically only ask for unencrypted tv channels, some cruft usually gets through, so restrict testing to channels that you know exist.

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