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Must admit, with a few tweaks this is awesome! First off... how do you control the motor??? Second... how about MPEG and other standards a good STB supports??? Certainly, tuning this thing from my tablet would certainly be quite the deal!

Thanx for the link. I guess the answer to my question is "not at this time" ;) when it comes to an ethernet based solution. BTW, if your planning on using anything short of CAT6 cable on your HomeRun ( eg wireless ) I'm hearing you may not be too happy with the outcome. With HD its...

Folks: This will probably interest sponsors here as well ;) Check out this device hdhomerun atsc device My question; Does anybody make a similar device to use as a Sat Receiver??? :confused: I'm thinking an ethernet based device ( perhaps DLNA? ) with V-Box type capability as well...

:D ;) :D Seemed a natural direction after I thought about it. A few things to consider... some of those MCU chips pack multiple ARM processors and significant ( 128+MB ) RAM in there for pretty cheap. RAM is always good. :) They also pack as much as 32MB ROMs :eek: , but I'm wondering...

My point is you "need" that for pre-sales AND you need it when things aren't quite working properly. That would be your "really need it" times. The "nice to have" time is for bling, showing off, and when the big screen isn't on ( recording, time, status type stuff ). You "don't need it"...

I just thew that out there, because Android is going "closed source". The engineers can fork off any open source that they like. OTOH, the whole display thing reminded me of just how cheap these things are, and now a days, just how cheap cell phones are... and they use very similar tech to...

:wave Depends... Are you planning on using a touch screen panel and eliminate the buttons??? :D If your going to undercut the OpenBox S9, I suppose you can eliminate a lot of things... but whats the point? That price point and feature set are pretty much covered by them. OTOH, if your...

And I hope I'm not too late to prevent you ( and your collaborators ) from making a huge strategic error of the marketing variety. :popcorn I would ignore everybodies posts here ( good points as they all are :D ) and remind you, that in a fairly mature and competitive market like this one...

:up Truly awesome. Those prices are QUITE reasonable! :cool:

SDRs are truly very simple and yet very arcane. The H/W should be much cheaper, given the simplicity. Seems that those who "get it" fall into 2 categories. Most are in the hey neato group. Then theres that group that get it and say NO F(n) way... guess who's Ox is getting gored there...

Ok Gents: Just a follow up. While it isn't exactly a "broadband device" it seems Qualcomm has come out with a tradename "GOBI" chip that acts something like what we were discussing here. Qualcomm Products and Services - Gobi It appears intended as a mass market device. And priced...

Maybe not. If you have a grounding block ( blue color plastic for 2.4GHz frequency ;) ) on your dish pedestal and another in your house grounded to your house ground, simply disconnect the ground in the house from that block and use a meter to see if there is any current flow between the 2...

Well 105 degrees of travel is pretty good too. Are you suggesting a longer arm ( 36" actuator ? ) would travel further or is that about the limit with your 6 footer?

Anyone know if these new 180/240cm dishes with polar mounts have a range of travel when used with a screwjack? I always thought it was around 120 degrees but I can't seem to find ( or I'm just dense ) any specs on that. Anyone know what the figures are? ThankYou.

If your dish is of any size and distance from your house you must ground it on its own rod(s). Failure to do so will result in your coax being the ground conduit, your dish and all assemblies and your STB become toast... not too bright. Ground returns are always present at your house, the...

Would DHL be cheaper? They ship the big stuff. Also, my 2 cents; :D WS International DMX521 Single Ku band LNBF................. $20.00 International DMX522 Twin Ku band LNBF................... $20.00 WS International DMX524U Universal Quad LNBF....... $25.00...

Can you tell me the max size of the pole for that mount? 75mm? How do you handle skew if you use the DMX741U?

Look at the DMX741U... very nice package:up I've seen a lnb mount for that ( 56mm ? ) and a offset horn. Thats all it takes to make it work. Problem is not the electronics. Its the feed horn and case. I don't think that call for much R&D... if any. As for a 4X Diseqc switch and a...

What would be nice is if WSI would make their C/Ku LNB more effective on 1.2M offset dishes. I'd venture a better horn design specific to offset dishes would go a long way to getting the performance that the electronics promise on the screen. As for lin/circ ... simple. Replace the built...

If your going to repeat what they have done, the price alone will be too high. If you can find someone to do a mass produced ASIC, then I suspect a $100 device might be possible. The Transceivers are not a problem, as you can S/W disable them, and also S/W control just what bands they...

SatelliteAV & Sadoun; LOL, I think pendragon ( and a few others ) pretty much summarized it. I'd be willing to bet if you showed it to a few of the engineers who supply you, they'd hit the roof :o either real excited or real ticked off. If the excited ones can get you components, (...

Attention folks, ( and suppliers as well I suppose ;) ); Check out this site; GNU Radio This is a software radio ( open source ) that interfaces to various GNURadio specific transceivers including ones that operate in the band pass of your typical FTA LNB :cool: S/W and H/W...

No. A parabola, regardless of diameter will have a given focal length. But if you started with a 3 footer, hung on panels to get to 9' and then went to 15', more than likely, just to get good illumination ( and a reasonably flat wave front ) the focal length of the 3 footer would be a good...

Makes you wonder why ( e.g. Fortec ) doesn't do it. A 3 foot steel dish with bolt holes on the side rim can be sold as is. Or they can ship with a number ( e.g. 6 ) of 3 foot steel bolt on petals to get you to 9 feet! Another set of 3 foot petals ( around 9 of them ) would get you a 15...

LOL, You want reason after the BUD Bug bites?:D :up