DVB-S2 card/usb (recommendations please) or wetek play ?

[ThEgOg]

hi:)

 

looking to get tv headend & openelec setup potentially on my unraid server or using a wetek play box, then if all goes well retire my humax pvr.

 

does anyone have any recommendations of dvb-s2 cards or dongles that are known to work well with unraid? my other option is to run it from a wetek play box and use the unraid server as storage only, any positives or negatives to doing this?

 

any other advice welcome, many thanks:)

[saarg]

I know from experience that TBS cards work, but can in some hardware combinations have a lot of continuity errors in combination with tvheadend. Don't know if it has been fixed in later drivers, but the media build guy CHBMB might chime in with his thoughts.

[batt01]

No sure about how will it working in unraid, but the Genpix Skywalker is a great piece of hardware. I bought mine in 03 and use it with DVBlink for DVBDream and WMC.

[meep]

I have a Digital Devices Octopus PCIe card installed in my unRAID with 6x tuners hanging off it (2x DVB-S2 and 1x DVB-T).

 

I have the card passed through to a Windows7 VM running ArgusTV. This saves recordings to the unRAID array and uses a dedicated SSD for timeshifting. Clients access liveTV and recordings through Kodi.

 

It all works perfectly. I really like the Octopus solution as you can have up to 8x mixed tuners in a single PCIe x1 slot.