Chris Beasley wrote:
> Power is fine as the cards are in the same machine (Dell R310 with xeon 2.9GHz CPU, 12GB Ram etc.) as they have always been and ran fine in Windows for years, TBS haven't responded to my forum posts or support requests so I've kinda given up! I'm not moving full time to this setup yet as I've still got some work on the clients to do to make it all friendly for the family, but sometime next month they will be ready... Ideally I should be able to move to an external Sat>IP unit within a month but I've now got to the point where this is quite fun to see if I can make it work and then break it!
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> I've basically proved that the concept of TVH will work for me with Kodi as the front end and TVHclient on my android devices which was the purpose of a lot of these posts at the end of the day, I just didn't think I would need to replace the tv cards so soon!
Well, I've had cards randomly stop working due to a failing power supply after many years. I've had exactly two TBS products, one I purchased and another was a replacement.
The original TBS USB QBox S2 I purchased kept getting extremely hot and the IR kept causing tvheadend to stall when polling, TBS replaced this with a 5922 after sending the Qbox to Bulgaria. It came with a faulty power supply that kept sending interference/noise/something down my phone line causing the VDSL to drop out. Openreach were just as baffled as to why the connection kept failing, even after they'd fixed a fault on the line. I only found the problem out after connecting the TBS via USB to a net-top & the Ethernet went completely dead. Credit to TBS they replaced it [PSU] without fuss, they apparently knew of the issue.. just forgot to inform people..
The drivers leave a lot to be desired! They're not fully open source (some are). Thankfully this has improved a lot recently. The hardware is fine but the building of the drivers is a bit of a pain in the backside.
And, for the reasons above I more than likely won't buy another TBS product (unless it has OSS drivers), not that the products are bad, it's just due to my experience of them. I was more annoyed with the fact that I felt like I was testing a prototype rather than a retail one & I'm not against testing things.