Paul Hey wrote:
> Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> > Paul Hey wrote:
> > > Thanks for the replies and recommendations.
> > >
> > > There is a quite comprehensive review of the HDHR on Amazon UK, documenting using it on various systems, including TVH, so that combined with some of the replies here is good news. The
triplestick is also something I've been looking at, and the cost per tuner is exactly the same when compared to the HDHR.
> >
> > You can get the "August
T210v2" used for £13.45 (+ £3.50 del) on "
Amazon" which is almost identical to the "
292e" I have 2 of these & they're fine (minus a few signal issues due to weak signal).
> > >
> > > I'm trying to steer away from PCI/e cards, as I hope to go down the route of a pi3 or much smaller backend server eventually, so it will definitely be USB or network tuners from now on. I still suspect that the odd glitch that occurs on my picture is due to RF and/or traffic inside my current case.
> >
> > If you're planning on using more than one tuner and attaching a drive to record, you may run into usb issues on the Pi as it only has one bus (for usb & network). There are plenty of alternatives though, the Banana Pi for example, although that's getting a bit long in the tooth now but it should be fine for what you want to do.
> >
> > >
> > > I'm about 18 miles from the Dover transmitter BTW, and the picture on all other devices is solid. Odd that using myth, the recordings and live TV were almost unwatchable.
>
> I'm a sucker for cheap, but will the T210v2 work out of the box? I'm only asking because I spend days trying to get DVBT2 from a DVBT2 USB receiver I bought from ebay, which I'm sure was branded as August...maybe a different model.
>
> Edit: I'm talking rubbish - it was an Astrometa.
Yes it will work OOTB provided the driver is in the kernel for the Pi (and the last time I looked it is).
I have an Astrometa as well, I stopped using mine because of the issues I had with it, I just couldn't get it to do T2 on an arm machine, but on a standard pc running a recent kernel it worked but would flake out. Things may have changed recently though.