Here is my situation. I have two C-band dishes (one motorized, one fixed) plus a couple of Ku-band dishes, though I doubt the Ku's will be helpful for what I want. I mentioned what it is I'm trying to receive on the private forum so I won't repeat that here. But what I do want to know is if there is anything available that has the following features:
- Will receive satellite TV, preferably in many formats (including 4:2:2 if possible), and stream it or otherwise make it available to computers on the local network. If it can be used as a source in MythTV, that would be ideal.
- Can be set up and used by someone who is not a total computer nerd. Let me put it this way - when it comes to Linux I am okay with installing software from the Ubuntu app store, or using Synaptic, or even apt-get from the command line. I am not okay with compiling software. I am definitely not okay with patching someone else's software to try to get it to work.
- Preferably can receive multiple streams (at least two) at once.
- Preferably can in some way move the dish, although I am not yet sure how necessary that will actually be.
- Can control a DiSEqC and 22 kHz tone switch (or has some other way to select from multiple inputs).
- Can blind scan for signals
In other words, I am basically looking for something a bit similar to a HDHomeRun device (which is what I use now for OTA signals) but failing that, a receiver that includes some sort of backend that can be accessed by XBMC (which is the frontend I use) would work as well. I actually prefer a standalone receiver provided it can stream programming over the network, simply because I am less out of my element. My second choice would be a USB-connected device that would stream to the MythTV backend, and my third choice would be a card that must be plugged into a computer (right now I am using a repurposed Mac Mini as my backend, and it doesn't have card slots).
In the case of a standalone receiver, I guess I would consider an alternative that did not do live streaming, but that did record the programs to a hard drive that was also accessible via the local network, if the recorded programs were in a format that XBMC could access and play. But with a standalone receiver, I also need the ability to schedule recordings and perform other maintenance from another computer on the network. This is because there is actually no TV where there receiver would be located - the whole point is to steam or record satellite programming for playback on other computers on the same local network.
The thing that I have heard about that seemed to come closest to what I wanted was the TBS MOI, but it seems that the people who have purchased one are not overly enthused about it, plus I see a lot of comments to the effect that if you use somebody or other's special firmware compiled with certain options under a full moon at low tide, it might work the way you want. That sort of thing goes completely over my head, at least at this point in time. But if someone here has purchased one and it is working great for you (especially with XBMC), I'd like to hear your experience. And if there are better devices that would do what I want and be far less hassle to set up, I'd be even more interested to hear about those.
The main thing is that while I would like to get back into FTA satellite, I mainly want to be able to record shows and then play them back later on computers or tablets in my home. I am not in the slightest interested in the old model, where you hook up a single receiver to a single TV, and can only watch satellite TV in that room, or schedule recordings using only the receiver's remote control. I still would like to be able to receive wildfeeds and such, but that is a secondary consideration at the moment.
Is there any chance of getting what I'm looking for, or is local networking pretty much still a foreign concept to the receiver makers?
- Will receive satellite TV, preferably in many formats (including 4:2:2 if possible), and stream it or otherwise make it available to computers on the local network. If it can be used as a source in MythTV, that would be ideal.
- Can be set up and used by someone who is not a total computer nerd. Let me put it this way - when it comes to Linux I am okay with installing software from the Ubuntu app store, or using Synaptic, or even apt-get from the command line. I am not okay with compiling software. I am definitely not okay with patching someone else's software to try to get it to work.
- Preferably can receive multiple streams (at least two) at once.
- Preferably can in some way move the dish, although I am not yet sure how necessary that will actually be.
- Can control a DiSEqC and 22 kHz tone switch (or has some other way to select from multiple inputs).
- Can blind scan for signals
In other words, I am basically looking for something a bit similar to a HDHomeRun device (which is what I use now for OTA signals) but failing that, a receiver that includes some sort of backend that can be accessed by XBMC (which is the frontend I use) would work as well. I actually prefer a standalone receiver provided it can stream programming over the network, simply because I am less out of my element. My second choice would be a USB-connected device that would stream to the MythTV backend, and my third choice would be a card that must be plugged into a computer (right now I am using a repurposed Mac Mini as my backend, and it doesn't have card slots).
In the case of a standalone receiver, I guess I would consider an alternative that did not do live streaming, but that did record the programs to a hard drive that was also accessible via the local network, if the recorded programs were in a format that XBMC could access and play. But with a standalone receiver, I also need the ability to schedule recordings and perform other maintenance from another computer on the network. This is because there is actually no TV where there receiver would be located - the whole point is to steam or record satellite programming for playback on other computers on the same local network.
The thing that I have heard about that seemed to come closest to what I wanted was the TBS MOI, but it seems that the people who have purchased one are not overly enthused about it, plus I see a lot of comments to the effect that if you use somebody or other's special firmware compiled with certain options under a full moon at low tide, it might work the way you want. That sort of thing goes completely over my head, at least at this point in time. But if someone here has purchased one and it is working great for you (especially with XBMC), I'd like to hear your experience. And if there are better devices that would do what I want and be far less hassle to set up, I'd be even more interested to hear about those.
The main thing is that while I would like to get back into FTA satellite, I mainly want to be able to record shows and then play them back later on computers or tablets in my home. I am not in the slightest interested in the old model, where you hook up a single receiver to a single TV, and can only watch satellite TV in that room, or schedule recordings using only the receiver's remote control. I still would like to be able to receive wildfeeds and such, but that is a secondary consideration at the moment.
Is there any chance of getting what I'm looking for, or is local networking pretty much still a foreign concept to the receiver makers?
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