I am based in the UK and have two internal TV Tuner cards (a dual DVB-T and a single DVB-S2).

I would prefer to go for satellite only and rather than buy a Quad DVB-S2 tuner card, I was thinking about a SAT>IP Server.

There seem to be quite a few advantages:

* No driver issues (especially after kernel updates)
* You can connect to the tuners directly, rather than via a server
* They are cheaper
* A PC, with PVR Software, can be place anywhere (not just close to the satellite input).

Has anyone used one and, if so, how was it?

Can anyone recommend any particular device?

This has been sitting for a while. Guess I'll ask.

Can you explain a bit more of what you want to do exactly? Not sure I get what you want to do.

I currently have a headless server, running Openmediavault.

I currently use TVHeadend to schedule and make recordings from the FTA channels available via the tuner cards that I currently have.

I did consider a TBS Quad DVB-S2 tuner card as a replacement/upgrade but have been advised that TBS cards are pretty tricky with Linux as kernel updates mean that the drivers have to constantly be recompiled.

SAT>IP servers seem to get round this problem buy existing as a separate product and feeding the satellite signals directly into the network, where they can still be picked up by my server.

I am currently looking at this one:

http://www.conrad-electronic.co.uk/c...ar-DIGIBIT-R-1

But reviews seem a bit thin on the ground.