Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-11-19 19:49, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
But the difficult thing is finding a suitable tv card that works in Linux without complications.
That's not so difficult - Hauppauge WinTV Nova-S-Plus for instance (for DVB-S, PCI-bus).
I'm selling them here: https://www.ricardo.ch/v/an857727816/
Modern PCIe cards are available too, I wouldn't expect any complications in Linux. If you need decoding and a smartcard slot, it can become difficult.
I have an haupage somewhere. I just looked, can't remember where it is. It is a pain to make it work in Linux. I abandoned the effort and bought a TV set for my work room instead, many years ago.
And when those cards work, you have to manually configure the channels downloading a file. You can not simply click a button and have the card scan the air and find the stations on its own with no help, as TV sets do.
With mythtv that is exactly what you do. After my sat-receiver gave up some four years ago, I have had such a setup running. Two mythtv backends, each has 2 Hauppauge cards, one also has a dual-receiver card with a smartcard slot. screenshot of the web interface: http://files.jessen.ch/mythtv-status-screenshot1.jpeg It shows 14 tuners at the top, and the next scheduled recordings further down. Complexities - My two mythtv backends are headless, accessing them for tuning and scanning for new channels can be a little annoying via VNC, but using X is too slow over the wifi. With two backends, I really need to set up some storage groups to balance the used space between them, but that has always seemed to be a little complex. For the last year or so, mythtv has been a little troublesome, it started taking veryyyyyyyyyy long to reschedule recordings, but I finally ran an "optimize table", and pretty much solved that one. mythtv insists on matching frontend and backend versions, at least in my version. That is a bit of nuisance. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (7.3°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - virtual servers, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org