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I stumbled across this today and it reminded me that when I got my first satellite receiver with PVR capability, it would only save files to an attached external drive, but it had no ethernet jack nor any other way to connect to the Internet. Even firmware updates had to be copied to a USB...

I tried to edit my previous post but apparently you only have 90 minutes to do that (which kinda sucks) but anyway this is what I wanted to add. Warning: What follows is untested and pretty geeky, not for those totally unfamiliar with Linux or unwilling to try using Tvheadend! One other thing...

I don't know if this will work with the receivers you mentioned, but I would think if you can record the program then you can post-process the recording to get the audio, which is covered in the first link. If you were using a satellite tuner card and running Tvheadend or something similar as a...

Yeah, that's kind of the problem - in an automated script that runs off a cron job, and assuming those cookies have a finite shelf life, how do you obtain fresh cookies at every run? If you have to manually fire up a browser and copy them over that means it will always be a manual process. I'm...

This is a very interesting discussion to me, for a couple of reasons. I've been using zap2xml for quite some time now, but for one thing the original page that hosted it went away and apparently it's now only available on the Wayback Machine, which means the author currently has no way to...

Well since no one else has answered so far, I'll just note that this is a discontinued model not currently listed on the TBS products page and I have never had one of those, but I do have one of similar vintage (the TBS-6985 which is the quad tuner model) and it works okay with Tvheadend under...

You can buy the TBS cards direct from the TBS store at TBS6925 DVB-S2 TV Tuner Card PCIe but sometimes they are also available from a seller on eBay. However you should be aware that is an older card that is no longer supported by TBS, they now recommend you purchase a TBS6983 instead...

I wonder if maybe the problem described in this blog post is what happened to you.

I guess my first question would be, did you try swapping the coax cables between the "bad" tuner and the "good" one, just to eliminate the possibility that the problem might be the coax or the LNB (or any switches in between)? I would suspect a failed LNB or cable (or a bad connector at the one...

I've never used it so can't say much about it, but Kodi has a PVR addon for Enigma devices, the support forum is at Kodi Community Forum - Enigma (Dreambox/Vu+) so maybe you could ask there if that addon supports your Edison.

My understanding is that what you have said is essentially correct. All the card does is stream the channel or mux to something that can process it. Video codecs are the responsibility of whatever device and software plays that stream (or recording if you have made a recording). Depending on...

To add to the above (for some reason the system won't let me edit it), I made a short sample 4:2:2 recording and used MedioInfo to show the codec being used, which in this case was something called AVC ("Advanced Video Codec"), not HEVC. I don't know enough about codecs or GPU's to know if that...

Just to be clear about this, the issue that you are probably encountering is that almost all other FTA formats use hardware decoding. In other words, your computer has a dedicated GPU chip or GPU circuitry, and the decoding of most types of video is handed off to that. BUT, for whatever...

I really can only point you to an article that might answer the questions in your last paragraph: The never final, always subject to revision article on how to build a Satellite TV PVR distribution system using Tvheadend - that is the best article I have seen so far that explains how the parts...

I've been using TBS cards since 2015 and I agree in part and disagree in part with what other posters have said. In my opinion, if you are not afraid of Linux, then your best shot at making it work is to use Tvheadend as your backend. Tvheadend can be difficult if you have never set it up...

The thing I dislike about Rick's site is that unlike this board, where there is a "What's Up There?" forum that's not indexed by search engines, he encourages everyone to post anything they find right out in the open. I don't know if he has actually been responsible for any feeds becoming...

I wanted to respond to this separately. I really wish you or someone would create this and make it work on systems that do not have a desktop, such as the server-only editions of Debian or Ubuntu, but make it VERY user friendly. I've heard that there are a limited set of tools out there now...

I will just say this much. I know of someone who tried to receive 16APSK using a consumer-grade TBS card, specifically a TBS6905, and failed completely. Then he tried a TBS6903 and had no problems other than the usual one of the signal turning to crap for no apparent reason every now and then...

I did not know that, and honestly didn't think it was possible. Too bad, but I understand your position completely.

Can I ask one question, but please let me preface this by saying I am NOT trying to receive anything illegally. Lately I've mostly been using TBS tuner cards to receive satellite signals and I find that about the only time I ever hook up my receiver anymore is to check signal strengths. But...

Thanks for the suggestion. Did that and unfortunately the response I got was not completely helpful, but only because my TVHeadEnd backend system is running Ubuntu Server, not a version of Ubuntu with a desktop and definitely not Windows (I don't think there even is a Windows version of...

I appreciate the suggestion but at this point I really don't trust the claimed specifications from TBS anymore, after all they said my card would do 16APSK back when they were selling it. Now if someone is currently using a reasonably priced (in other words, not "professional" grade) TBS card...

So, either that seller doesn't know his own product or he's intentionally trying to confuse people, and if the latter, it worked with me. :confused:

True, but it was sold as being able to do 16APSK, and therefore I thought it did until I very recently found out otherwise. Well if that is true (and I'm not saying it isn't) then why does the description for the first one include this? Dear friend,pls note the v7 no have lan port if you want...

TBS6985. It was originally advertised as supporting 16APSK, but I know I read somewhere recently that the chip used on that board doesn't actually have the capability to tune 16APSK. Do you know of a PCIe tuner card that will receive 16APSK with no problems that is still available and is NOT...