"R.Wieser" wrote
>Jan,
>
>> I tried several different DVB-T USB sticks, all work,
>
>I've been thinking about using my pi as a PVR [1] for a while, but have no
>experience with any of it.   Next to that I currently still have an analog
>cable signal, but that could change to a digital one in the (near - a year
>or two perhaps) future.
>
>[1] For recording, but if possible also for replay.   Not necessarily at the
>same time though.   It will mostly be used for time-shifting purposes.
>
>I'm at a loss to what I should be looking at (possible problem areas), and
>even if I can make a choice which will work for both analog as well as
>digital (or if its wise to want that ...).
>
>In other words, I'm looking for a solution which works "out of the box" (so
>I can see that it actually works - I do not want to have to fight a fight
>I'm not sure I can win (because of stuff being incompatible) ), but still
>allows me to program against / modify it (like being able to remote in to
>set capture times, or see which movies have been recorded, write my own
>program to control stuff, etc - I've already been looking at KODI/XBMC info,
>but am not sure if I like its "plugin" system)
>
>Do you have any ideas, hints and/or site links ?
>
>Additional info: I'm living in the Netherlands, which uses PAL.
>
>Regards,
>Rudy Wieser

Hard to tell.
When I had cable it came with a receiver with HDMI output and recording
capabilities,
never got that working ;-)
I got a HDMI to analog converter box from ebay and fed that into a capture card
in the PC.
Designed an infrared transmitter to control that cable tuner from the PC so I
could
select channels and start recordings on specified times.
Not an out of the box solution.

My personal advice would be to use the Pi for terrestrial TV (DVB-T DVB_T2)
only
and get a satellite dish.
Hundreds of free channels from all over the world are on satellite.
I have been using satellite now since about year 2000.

Only because NPO1 to NPO3 are encrypted on satellite I needed the DVB-T.
Seems to be a political decision to encrypt those..  most other countries have
their public channels free to air.

Anyways, for satellite xdipo works, both on the raspberry and the PC,
has a recorder, can set timers, can do HD and DVB-S2.
You can connect your DVB stick to a PC too and record on harddisk.

It is hard to give advice on these things.

Maybe just get one of those DVB-T2 sticks and play around with it.
When satisfied cancel the cable, see my posting to NY.

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