Tvheadend

Aaron,

I can certainly say there are quite a few TVH users (myself included) using that card for 28.2. Have you tried any other software for receiving the stream (other than TVH) just in case you've found a bug, though I'd be surprised during initial setup (just because so many people will have done the exact same thing).

Adam

I haven't tried any other software yet - I could give VDR a try (I think?) otherwise I'll have to find a Windows CD and install it somewhere; everything here is either Linux or Mac, and only the Linux boxes have PCIe slots

I figured it was a pretty common combination, given there's a wiki page here on configuring the card Very odd that it can't see BBC-HD but the Sky box can - it's like the card has selective hearing.. perhaps it's just a faulty card, here's how it reports the MUX in question (in the attached image)

Where did you get that config from? It's completely wrong.

10847 is a DVB-S2 mux, using 23kbaud and PSK_8.

Try removing that mux and re-entering it manually.

Adam

Ah! I hadn't noticed that..

All I did after installing TVHeadend was use the "Add DVB Network by location..." button and use the Astra_28_2E list from there to pre-populate the list of MUXs.. I probably should have spotted that as I tripped over the same thing trying to get my DVB-T2 card working in that the "by location" for Crystal Palace didn't have the T2 MUX in the list either. Oops..

I presume I should probably be defining the MUXs manually rather than relying on the 'by location' lists?

Thanks!
Aaron
(Who is going to go and sit in the corner with the pointy Dunce cap on now ;))

I knocked up a quick script in Perl to take the list of frequencies available on KingofSat (as an .ini file) and spit out something that could be loaded into TVHeadend, in case anyone else wants it (good chance I've reinvented the wheel but it was a quick exercise in Perl :))..

I'll attach the script here - this list of 107 MUXs ends up as 96 valid MUXs in TVHeadEnd (some frequencies don't seem to want to load in and I'm not sure why - perhaps they're invalid to begin with) and there are now lots and lots of HD channels available; albeit mostly encrypted.

The script requires Config::Tiny, but that's available as a package on Ubuntu if not installed already.

Very odd, I've always used the 28.2 install by network and never encountered this

TBH, the best solution for SKY/28.2 is to install 11778V and let the rest be auto-detected from there. This is the mux that carries the SKY EPG, and also what I believe sky boxes use to autodetect all teh muxes in the first place (if you dig enough in the sky box settings, you'll see this mux listed under service discovery...).

Adam