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On 11/04/17 11:35, Simon Avery via list wrote: > Hi Mr M > > I've run two tuners on Freesat since it started, and Freeview before > that (Unfortunately, the digital switchover completely destroyed > freeview signal in my area, so freesat was the only non-commercial > option!) Luckily I had an old 80cm dish knocking around from earlier > geeky fiddles to get european TV and improve my German (which works > fine, but I got bored once it was working and never did learn the language) > > Drivers are a pain for my card, needing a manual rebuild for each > kernel, and the software is mythtv and mythweb. The latter for > everything but configuring so it's a remote server. > > Myth is of the old school - somewhat unfriendly devs, cliquey support, > arcane setups and not user friendly to configure. But it's the best I've > found which records as straight MPGs (and I use a script to rename them > to human-readable, since I playback from the filesystem, rather than by > myth itself) > > The best guide I've found for freesat and myth is here, which has the > required frequencies; http://parker1.co.uk/mythtv_freesat.php > > There are windows alternatives too, of course - some quite good, if you > can avoid the not-good and adware-riddled ones, or pay a lot. I've not > kept pace with those so can't say what's good. > > On 10 April 2017 at 00:50, Steven CÃtà via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > >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. Thanks for the replies - I'm pretty sure there's something wrong with the dish setup here then, which is unsurprisingly where most of my testing has been happening for convenience reasons. I'll try what I believe *should* be a fully working DVB-S equipped RPi at a couple of other places where I suspect it'll work. One friend currently has a crappy old FreeSat STB still in service so that would be the obvious candidate to try as I can be 100% sure they at least have a functional feed to test with. I was a long time mythtv guy as well and know the parker1 site well but over the years it's become increasingly difficult to wrestle into submission so I've been looking for a long time for something Linux based (no nasty proprietary Windows crapware or Media Centers) that I could use to replace it Myth as a backend, abstracting all the front end logic away and leaving something preferably newer, more advanced and a bit more future proofed. Ideally something that would also scale down to being deployed on a RPi3, even one already busy doing other things - which is how I got to tvheadend. Why do you insist on mpgs by the way? I'm guessing you need that for commercial detection/skipping plugins? tvheadend will do that as well (either/and record to mpg/cut ads). If you've got a spare RPi or Linux VM and a USB tuner card or two I highly recommend checking it out! Cheers -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq