Hi there,

 

I am going to buy TV tuner cards to have 2 DVB-C tuners. The CI-Card slot is not necessary onboard, I will have an external USB solution for that anyway.

 

If you have experience with any of the following boards it would be great if you would share it (sorry the links are for Amazon Germany):

 

Digital Devices Cine C/T

http://www.digitaldevices.de/english/Cine_CT.html

 

2xC

160 EUR

 

TBS 6680

https://www.tbs-technology.de/shop/product_info.php?products_id=29&MODsid=d88e3132a60e72837549b062b3d9a3df

 

2xC + 2xCI

154 EUR

 

TBS 6618

http://www.amazon.de/TBS-DVB-C-Single-Tuner-Kabel-HDTV-Empfangskarte/dp/B008HP544C/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370783210&sr=8-1&keywords=TBS+6618

 

1xC + CI

90 EUR

 

DVBSky T9580

http://www.amazon.de/DVBSky-DVB-S2-bootf%C3%A4higem-Terrestrisch-Empfang/dp/B00C6A2RXU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370783146&sr=8-1&keywords=DVBSky+T9580

 

1xC,1xS,1xT sat, 1x

80 EUR

 

DVBSky T980C

http://www.amazon.de/DVBSky-bootf%C3%A4higem-Terrestrisch-Empfangskarte-Nachfolger/dp/B00C6A2PBO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370783048&sr=8-1&keywords=DVBSky+T980C

 

1xC + CI

100 EUR

 

DVBSky C2800

http://www.amazon.de/DVBSky-bootf%C3%A4higem-Empfangskarte-brandneuer-innovativen/dp/B008JA7PFG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1370783091&sr=8-1&keywords=DVBSky+C2800E

 

1xC + CI

85 EUR

 

  like your post about tuner cards... 

 

  To use such devices on a computer server that is running unRAID, you would also need to run other software, that is where the compatibility list and questions would need to be asked and sought after.  Such software would either be run as an additional package run under the Linux environment of unRAID, or in a virtual environment, such as under ESXi.

 

  For a better chance of answers to your questions, look at these other forums;

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?board=6.0

 

  Sorry, but even though it is a Hardware question, it is more properly asked under either one of those two specialized forums due to reasons stated above.

 

  Hope that will help you find the answers you are looking for!  :-)  Sounds very interesting!  best wishes!

  If these cards are also going to be used with Tvheadend, and you are unable to get answers here in the unRAID forums, you can also try the Tvheadend forums.

 

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/boards

 

Yes this is about TVHeadend to drive the tuner cards.

Did you found a good card? I would like to get one too, with good support on linux and preferentially with drivers for it included on latest kernels without the need for crap vendor/3rdparty patchs etc...

check out my old post here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=19605

I am running an ESXi setup including a Digital Devices card for two years now whitout any problem!

Thank you tobias but I would really like one with good linux support to use with tvheadend.

Did you find a good card, who ist working out of the box?

...it'll depend what you need...for CAM and MAPI support, YMMV with linux support.

AFAIR for FTA the digital-devices cards are very popular around here, since they offer for the tuner modules to be daisy chained to the PCIe-bridge...you can have up to 8 tuners, connected to a single PCIe-x1 slot.

I'd suggest to look into mythtv and vdr project forums to find out what cards work best.