Just bought this DVB-S2 box for my Windows 7 Media Center box.but I'm having a few issues with it. Just bought this DVB-S2 box for my Windows 7 Media Center box.but I'm having a few issues with it. DVB-S is all you need currently for Freesat SD and HD content.HOWEVER Freesat HD set-top boxes and IDTVS mandate DVB-S2 compatibility so that Freesat HD broadcasts can switch from DVB-S to DVB-S2 at some point in the future.(DVB-S2 gets more data onto a transponder, but you have to switch the entire satellite transponder, not just a bit of it. As all the Freesat HD broadcasts are currently sharing transponders with SD channels they are still using DVB-S for HD)I'd also go with tuner cards that are well regarded and reported working with a number of installs - as driver support (particularly when you have more than one tuner card in a PC) can be tricky.I have one set-up with a Nova-T 500 Dual DVB-T and Nova-S2 HD DVB-S2 card that only works with them in the right pair of PCI slots. Swap the cards around and one of them won't work.
I also have a set-up with a dual DVB-S2/dual DVB-T Pinnacle 7010ix PCI-E card that I got VERY cheap on eBay that has worked really well for me (though I seldom use the DVB-T tuners).
Digital Satellite Receiver HDStar DVB-S2 TV Box Geniatech HDStar. DVB-S2 HDStar is a digital satellite receiver box with USB2.0 interface, which allows you to access free-to-air high definition and standard definition digital satellite TV and digital radio in on your PC. Mar 18, 2017 Hi Using rpi2 with latest January update. Trying to get the following dvb-s2 tuner to work. On linuxtv it shows device supported Geniattech HDStar linuxtv. I downloaded the dvb-fe-ds3000.fw firmware and placed it into /lib/firmware. Tvheadend picks up the tuner but when i go to scan muxes it fails everytime. Heres dmesg log.
Unexpected behaviour with this receiver means many transponders are not recognised correctly and appear significantly out of the expected frequency.Here is a log:If I scan say 12207V it comes up with the channels on transponder 11343V.Although I haven't been through things for 100% certain, it seems to be mainly vertically polarised channels in the 'high' band on a universal LNB.I have posted more info on this thread: but this is my overall summary here. Others have reported problems with this hardware on the Outernet project site at and at Openelec.Thanks.