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FINAL (hopefully) report for my "adventure" with CC errors...
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Alright all, after 24 hours of work with my TV-PC server system with just 6 hours sleep, I am pleased (for now at least) to say that it looks like I have solved my CC errors! :-)
Here is what I have done since Friday evening:
1. Replaced the motherboard Gigabyte GA-P61-USB3-B3 with a quite interesting motherboard that is actually special built by Asrock to be used in bitcoining servers:
Asrock H61 PRO BTC, http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H61%20Pro%20BTC/index.asp
This card has 5 (!!) motherboard slots that are PCIe 2.0 x1. The good thing is that 4 of them are located at the bottom of the motherboard and far away from the top of the board where the CPU is located. Another good thing is also that it has built-in graphics (as long as you use a CPU with integrated graphics) so no need to "disturb" the PCIe tuner cards with a graphics card on a PCIe x1 slot.
And not to mention the price, only 440 SEK here in Sweden (approx 45 EUR). Socket is LGA1155 but there is a version for socket LGA1150 as well, model no H81 Pro BTC.
Also a built-in motherboard COM1 connector that fits my serial Phoneix card reader (built-into the chassi). So as I think, a perfect card for a multi-tuner-card TV-server. :-)
2. Did a brand new and clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 and downloaded new drivers for my Cine S2 cards (as described on http://shop.digital-devices.de/epages/62357162.sf/en_GB/?ViewObjectPath=%2FShops%2F62357162%2FCategories%2FDownloadsNew1%2FLinux_Unterstuetzung_fuer_Digital_Devices_Produkte)
3. Installed latest build of TVH (3.9.1358), latest Oscam and then finally latest stable release of XBMC with the TVH PVR plugin.
4. Did all the TVH setup and conf and voilaaaa! A really nice working TVH setup and you know what.... NO CC errors whatsoever even if I tune in to 4 HD channels at the same time and recording on for example 2 more HD channels! Well, I have about 4-8 CC errors during the last 12 hours but that is fine (and probably expected since most of those has occured when fast switching and jumping back and forth between channels).
I even have NO CC errors at all eventhough sometimes I get below 70% signal quality (indicator goes brown) so I really believe that the signal strength TVH shows is not always correct. When I had those low signal qualities I pulled out that SAT cable from the tuner card and measured with my Satlink WS-6926 and it shows around 80% signal quality. Anyway, look at the attached screenshot and you can see that I have NO CC errors on any of the tuners used in that screenshot.
I will still probably replace my smaller dish with a dish around 100-120 cm in dia in order to get as good as possible signal quality even when I get thunderstorms and heavy snowfall in the coming winter. (Probably something like this VISIOSAT SMC DTH, h24-files.s3.amazonaws.com/83431/227259-NX8wc.pdf, very expensive though, around 390 EUR here in Sweden at http://www.satpro.se/default.asp?id=96001&art_nr=695758&cat_nr=103&ucat_nr=110)
For now on I am very happy with having solved the dreading CC errors. I´ll report back during coming week if this continues to work fine.
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