{"id":133,"date":"2012-04-09T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-04-09T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T10:45:00","slug":"satellite-and-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=133","title":{"rendered":"Satellite and Linux.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had been using an old Hauppauge HVR4000 PCI card for watching and recording UK digital satellite (DVB-S2) &#8216;<strong>Freesat<\/strong>&#8216; programmes, but now needed something more &#8216;portable&#8217; &#8211; that I could use with my HP6830 laptop as well..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had also run out of PCI slots in my main Linux\/Intel system..<\/p>\n<p>I should mention that DVB-T (&#8216;<strong>Freeview<\/strong>&#8216;) broadcasts to my location are completely unwatchable &#8211; due to low signal strength \/ interference, etc. etc.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A shame, as it seems that Freesat in the UK is the &#8216;poor relation&#8217; when it comes to TV programming, and Freeview has a far better channel line-up..<\/p>\n<p>After some investigation (and finding &#8211; to my surprise &#8211; that the Hauppauge DVB-S2 USB2 device was <em>unsupported<\/em> in Linux..) I decided to get a <strong>TeVii S660<\/strong> box.\u00a0\u00a0 For some reason, many DVB-S2 USB devices for the UK are sold out of Germany&#8230;\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As usual, there are firmware file(s) to load, and after some translation (from the German!..) I managed to find the location to download these from..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been using an old Hauppauge HVR4000 PCI card for watching and recording UK digital satellite (DVB-S2) &#8216;Freesat&#8216; programmes, but now needed something more &#8216;portable&#8217; &#8211; that I could use with my HP6830 laptop as well..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I had also run out of PCI slots in my main Linux\/Intel system.. I should mention that DVB-T (&#8216;Freeview&#8216;) broadcasts <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=133\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[140,168,187,330,364,383],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvb-s2","category-fedora","tag-dvb-s2-2","tag-freesat","tag-hauppauge","tag-satellite","tag-tevii","tag-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}