Recent content by OldBen

Thanks Channel Hopper, yes sat-shop have these as blademedia noted, I might make them a best offer, just trying to decide if I want to attempt putting in a DVB-T tuner or just add two DVB-S. Will setup a streaming with kodi to the kitchen soon so need more tuners... EDIT: Hmm, they removed...

Thanks, did eventually find those after I posted, shame postage from Germany not so cheap, only €25 there!

I did, no reply yet...

I want to add another couple tuners to my HD2400 box, but WOS seem to not list them anymore, googling around was a bit random as they seem to mostly only be available in Germany and some Netherland stores with big postage. Anyone know where I can buy Mutant tuners in the UK?

CI+ CAM works out of the box with factory image so all good. Loaded openATV now but some channels breaking up tonight which I am going to attribute to the weather not the image. Stuck with German webif so need to find where that language setting is... Going to check/tweak dish alignment...

digi247 - thanks, I do understand the transcode, previously iPad would sometimes struggle on the WiFi with HD channels, and I wanted to use a spare Pi and the old TV in another room which is only 720P so transcoding would help the early model Pi with the streaming which will be over WiFi...

I think the only thing worrying me is the CI+ support, the CAM I have says CI+ on it, but it worked fine in the Duo which I understood did not have CI+ support. It seems the CI/CI+ support comes from the manufacturer driver level not from E2, so Xtrend does not work or is unstable (plus battery)...

@Manicscrewdriver is that still a thing? I remember that from years back, I didn't even consider that was a problem still! Xtrend is out anyway, I just discovered from more research that the skylink irdeto CAM is CI+ and Xtrend does not list CI+ support and German forums have a lot of complaints...

Thanks for reply, your confirming the conclusion I also reached - they both seem solid and well supported. The prices seem comparable with more than 2 tuners, the main requirement is it needs to work with a genuine subscription card/CAM but both have CI slots and the Duo worked, although only...

Hi All, Vu Duo Plus died with the red light of death, I changed the cap and the burnt out regulator but still no-go, I think I damaged a track on the PCB when I did the regulator so I need to find a local repair place at some stage to see if it can be saved. Given the ~3yr life for £300+...

If it helps mine sometimes throws a wobbly like that, but usually recovers without power startup or with power - suspect related to low voltage from battery pack somehow.

Thanks Capn. To answer my own question though as I made a breakthrough!: DB9 - Signal - 3.5mm Pin 2 RX - TIP Pin 3 TX - Ring Pin 5 - Ground - Surround/Ground Turns out the other leads I had (I think from a NetApp disk array) were wired the opposite way round, with TX on the...

So... its a 9pin serial to a 3.5mm stereo jack, but I can't find the cable, or rather I can find 3 cables of this type but some are for disk arrays and I am not sure which is which! Can anyone tell me assuming shield is ground which out of pin/ring is TX or RX? If you have a cable multimeter...

The ICE card is the one I have, I was advised by our Czech friends the Irdeto only cards do not work in softcam with Engima receivers (although I am using hardware CAM at the moment).

I *think* the latest skylink cards are both spec? I know they were moving over from the encryption standard, and I was advised to get the card support both old and and new for best compatibility. The fortec start are not great, someone I knew bought one then quickly changed (he was trying to...