O2 Joggler Forum

Has anyone tried and utilized a USB based TV tuner with the Joggler yet?

There is a thread on the forum based on vdr for the joggler maybe give that a try pete

Thanks Dan.

I tried it ages ago with a little DVB tuner on an earlier Ubuntu build. It worked but I gave up pretty quickly because the TV antenna signal at the back of my house (where the kitchen Joggler is) is pretty atrocious. Depending on the weather conditions, sometimes a station would play seamlessly and at other times not at all.

XBMC with its iPlayer and TVcatchup addons (for us UK-based TV fans) also negated the need to fiddle around with DVB.

I also use tv catchup, what a fabulous service that is.

Despite what I said earlier, DVB would still be good to have for some uses. It means you could use the Joggler as a small TV to take on trips/holidays. It would be neat to use it without an internet connection.

Thanks guys; just a thought as I've not played with one of those USB tuners yet.

Its just that today I have set up my home office LCD with OTA, Satellite, Cable and an in house channel selection. With OTA I've added filters such that 3 other channels are included. Aside from this have an NMT and a Logitech Review hooked up. Keeping the smaller Joggler footprint thinking of maybe setting up the device such that it'll get the in house video stuff.

gegs wrote:I tried it ages ago with a little DVB tuner on an earlier Ubuntu build. It worked but I gave up pretty quickly because the TV antenna signal at the back of my house (where the kitchen Joggler is) is pretty atrocious. Depending on the weather conditions, sometimes a station would play seamlessly and at other times not at all.

XBMC with its iPlayer and TVcatchup addons (for us UK-based TV fans) also negated the need to fiddle around with DVB.

@Pete _c USB DVB-T Stick Afatech AF9015, is the one Tommes uses on his Joggler VDR ,
it looks like an xbmc PVR /vdr with iplayer/tv catchup and a couple of tv usb sticks plus a large fully loaded hdd say 2tb would be the ultimate Joggler media set up
Dream on .........
Or am I just greedy
Happy Joggling

Thanks Hawsey!

Trying in-network streaming tonight from another PC with a tuner via VLC; just to see what the picture looks like.

hawsey wrote:Or am I just greedy

When the machines take over, they'll be tinkering with us. Have fun while it lasts.

Mevi wrote:

hawsey wrote:Or am I just greedy

When the machines take over, they'll be tinkering with us. Have fun while it lasts.

You had better believe it

lol

That's what my wife always thinks...

Hi,

to select an 'USB Tuner', also a DVB-Device, don't look only at the manufacturer,
take ya focus at the build-in chipset.
Before buy, search the internet by your favorite model + linux (/ + vdr)
If you can test it before, would be the best. Plug-in and try 'lsusb' on terminal or lsusb -v
If nothing will be detect, try to install the firmware
apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
My DVB-T stick is this low-budget piece
http://www.dealextreme.com/p/usb-dvb-t- ... emote-8309
I bought it before a year or so, so no warranty that it's the same model today, but at this priece ...
Now i've bought an adapter to home plug antenna for it
http://www.ebay.de/itm/MCX-Adapter-Kabe ... 3cbfd6be7c

Sorry, a little bit offtopic
and my X10 remote control is like this
http://www.ebay.de/itm/Medion-X10-PC-US ... 3cc1cc8d00


Greets, Tommes

Thanks Tommes!