dual Sat cards (1 Viewer)

[rolfey]

Hi,

I feel a bit silly asking this as it's probably well known, but I am running a tvserver with one satellite card installed and looking to expand to at least one more card enabling me to wath a channel and record another at the same time.

when you have one card installed with the cable from the dish connected to it, how are you sposed to connect up the second card?
Would you use some sort of splitter or something so the input runs into both cards or what?

Mike

 

[funkstar]

Each sat tuner needs its own LNB. You will need to have a look at the bottom of the one on your sat dish (the bit that collects the signal at the end of the arm) to see if there is another connector. If there is great, run a second cable. If there isn't, you will need to replace it with a dual LNB version.

Units with 4 ports are available, I'm not sure what you do if you ever wanted more than that...

 

[rolfey]

ahh no, I get what you mean, I'm quite clued up on that side of things, but I was hoping that there was some sort of splitter around you could buy, 1 cable into 2 splitter would be really handy, still you can't have everything you want in life can you

In that case it's time to invest in a dual tuner card, any suggestions?

Mike

 

[Zeee]

It's the same thing. Even with dual dvb-s card you will need 2 lnb or dual lnb. You cannot set one lnb to horizontal and vertical polarization at the same time.

 

[rolfey]

it looks as though I'm going to have to buy a dual tuner card, I already have 3 lmb's all runnig into a diseqc box, and that bit all works fine, it's now just the dual tuner bit to sort out.

Mike

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

They do have splitters though sometimes it works sometimes it does not. I guess it depends of the polarization of the channels you are watching then?

Same polarization == works
Different polarization == does not work

 

[flintstone99]

Hi,

are the 3 lnb's all looking at 1 satelite? if so, that end is fine.
I am using a Digital Devices CineS2 V6.5 PCIe dual sat card and really happy with that one. Quite expensive, but I tried several other single or dual cards earlier and they never worked as good as this one. Can also be upgraded to quad card and supports CI moduls....
If you have an issue with the number of cables itself, there is a solution to have multiple lnb'S and sat receivers connected with just 1 cable instead of a cable for each receiver. It is called unicable and supported by the DD cards.

 

[Iwen]

I'm pretty sure the thread starter would appreciate your helping posts if he would login the first time since more than three years. Not to mention that his cable setup probably changed in the last 5 years and 9 months since the thread was opened .

 

[Stéphane Lenclud]

So how does unicable works? Do I need some special hardware? I have the same card as you @flintstone99 but currently using plain splitters.