Hi,
I have a TBS6909 that I have had for some time but never got around to installing due to health problems. Now I want to install it but having read some posts on the forum about this card I have no idea what anyone is talking about. I'm not a total novice but I really don't know anything about setting up the TBS6909. I run a dual tuner TBS card on Windows 8.1 with NextPVR and this has been mainly good. Sometimes I get errors saying a recording failed as it it couldn't lock on to the signal. I have no idea why? Also Win 8.1 sometimes crashes and looking at the dump it seems to be the TBS driver. Again I don't know why? But mainly it is okay and I like NextPVR.
With the TBS6909 (I've no idea which version) I want to run it on Linux or BSD. The reason being the stability problems I've had with Win 8.1 and Linux/BSD upgrades are free.
It seems that people mainly seem to be using Linux with TVheadend. So, my first question is can I run the TBS6909 with NextPVR? I get the impression that TVheadend hasn't been updated in a long time and I've never set it up so if I can stay with NextPVR that would be good.
Where I get totally lost in the forum is when people talk about VF/HF connections or something like that.I've no idea what any of that means?
My satellite dish has an Octo LNB with 4 cables coming into the room where the server will go. But at the moment I am using 2 of those cables for the dual tuner in the Win 8.1 machine.
Can I run the TBS6909 with just two cables at least for now? What is the significance of the cables? I assumed they were all the same but stuff I've read seems to say one type of cable needs to be connected to one of the TBS6909 connectors and other types to the others. I've no idea what this means.
The machine will only run the PVR software and Jellyfin. So, what operating system should I use?
The clients are all OSMC Vero4k boxes.. in other words Kodi.
I've looked for guides to setting such a system up but I've only found guides using other TV tuners and most of those are not satellite.
Any advice much appreciated. If anyone can point me at any guides/tutorials that would also be great.
One last question. I often see that the TBS cards support IPTV. What does that mean? Again I've looked for info but been totally lost by what I found. It seems to say it is something I subscribe to. Is that correct?
If it is relevant I'm in the UK.
Thank you.