MJ Ray wrote:
I've missed the reason for replacing the dish, but pretty much any standard parts should work.
Maybe I don't need to replace the dish, it's an old (analogue) dish but presumably that's largely irrelevant as long as its pointing in the right place and has a suitable LNB (which I'm thinking of replacing anyway)? It's bigger than the current Sky offerings but that's probably an advantage from what I've just read at satcure.com.
[In case its not obvious I don't have a clue what I'm talking about in this field!]
Since it looks like I can even give it a new coat of paint, I should experiment with what I have first by the sound of things? I do have a Freeview satellite decoder bought cheap in a Maplin sale that's never been out of its box, presumably that would be a good place to start too.
I've DIY'd both my installations and so did my brother. Four bolts and hanging a dish isn't that complicated. It's the motor which I usually mess up!
If I'm not investing in a dish now, then I guess I can leave the motor side of things for another day.
A Linux-based DVB-S receiver won't care whether it's circular or Sky-shaped, but reception is worse if you mismatch the LNB and dish and Sky dishes aren't that great to start with.
OK, so maybe I just need a new LNB and some time to play?
This started out as a query to assist someone else but I'm getting more and more inclined to experiment myself now. I've played with stuff like MythTV in the past (not with satellite though) and never got very far, but I've always wanted to achieve something in this area and I do have some spare PC kit that's just been freed up which would be fairly cheap to turn into a MythTV or similar box.