Stable solution for receiving encrypted Digitenne channels in the Netherlands? (1 Viewer)

[Da_JoJo]

its nice to know one has the right device, hence the comment about it
strangely when i stop the cno.exe in the taskbar it stops descrambling in mediaportal
maybe it is because i use mediacenter as well and so have a virtual tuner installed.
i have artifacts when i install the tuner as normal device and disable the mediacenter services.
when i stop cno and start the tv-server and tune in to a fta channel and then start the cno ,
all the artifacts disappear and i have crisp clear hdtv. as u can see in the video i made on youtube.
thnx for the tutorial its appreciated by a lot of dutch people that would like to try this and dont have that much of an idea what there doing. mediaportal is far suprior over most tv software.

 

[mpadam]

Just to give you all an update on how the story in my original post ended....

At a certain point my HTPC died. I could not determine the cause (later I got other problems that suggest it was all an intermittent short circuit in the front panel power switch, but anyway...), and I wanted to change quite a few things anyway (like upgrade from a very old MP version and also from XP to Win 7), so I went over to a new motherboard / CPU (also lower power than my old system) and swtiched over to Digitenne. Actually I later found out that there is an even cheaper way to get DVB-T in the Netherlands via EDPNet, but that's something I will do in a year after the Digitenne contract has expired. See - http://www.edpnet.nl/thuis/digitale-televisie

The new motherboard has firewire built in, so I bought two second hand Digital Anywhere FloppyDTV cards (as there seems to be lots of MediaPortal support for these cards) and so far it seems to more or less work. I am using them alongside the AverMedia Volar Black that I used before. So far I would say with one FloppyDTV it is rock solid. With two FloppyDTVs the jury is still out - yes I have of course the legacy firewire driver in place and the latest firmware updates - but still I would say that sometimes wierd stuff happens when both are required. However, the system is still pretty new, so I'll report back if I get it working in a way that is really stable.

Just to save anyone else the hassle - the CAM module you get from Digitenne does not work with FloppyDTV, but you can buy one (Conax type) pretty cheaply e.g. on eBay. I got my CAMs with the FloppyDTVs from the guys who were selling them. It might well be that the CAM module from EDPNet does work - it looks like the right one in the pictures on their website - but I cannot confirm this.

Also, this combination of tuner card / CAM / Smartcard does allow multiple decrypted channels on the same multiplex (DVB-T channels sent together on the same frequency), so in general a set up like mine of three tuners with only two CAMs (one tuner for Ned 1 / 2 / 3 only) will cover "normal" use - you can generally just record whatever you want and still be able to watch live TV unless you are really unlucky.

 

[mpadam]

Hi All,
A few months now with this configuration and I can report that it's working perfectly. No problems. System also comes in/out of standby with no issues.
Cheers
MPA