How to setup satellite TV

[jonapap]

At home, I have my TV trough a satellite dish (really not sure what is the technical name). I have a AverMedia tuner card installed in my computer. I currently have the television working via S-Video input from the PVR, but it has several downsides that make it almost a pain to use. First, the computer can't switch channels by itself, so we have to use the TV remote to switch, and the latency is horrible (good 5 sec between when I press a button and appearing on screen). I would love to directly plug the cable to the computer, bypassing the PVR. The first part is easy, the cable is currently plugged to the card, but I can't get it to work. Could someone help me getting it setup, telling me which type of signal that I should use (Analog, ATSC, QAM...), or tell me if it is possible at all to do what I want? Oh, if it changes something, I live in Canada.

[sub]

You can add an IR Blaster to your setup to allow NextPVR to tell your set top box to change channels whenever it needs to.

Unfortunately your AverMedia device does not understand the types of signals directly from the satellite cable (and doesn't supply the power required by the satellite dish LNB etc). You can get DVB-S satellite tuners which can do this type of thing, but unfortunately the channels you're probably interested in (there in Canada) are likely to be encrypted.

[jonapap]

Well, thanks for letting me know. I am trying to setup the IR Blaster as you said. I followed all the steps successfully here : http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...ikiSandbox . Only problem is that nothing happens when I enter the channel that I want to tune to on my keyboard when I am at the live TV. Could you help me get it to work? EDIT : Nevermind, I need to create the channels. Just need to find a way for that to be done automatically... Probably need a guide, am I right?

[sub]

If you want to use a PVR like NextPVR, you definitely need channels and a guide. If you just wanted to view the video input and not worry about channels and guide etc, you'd be better off using the software that came with your device.

[jonapap]

OK, I got it working! I used zap2xml for generating the guide. I have another small issue, but it is with the NextPVR plugin of Kodi, so probably it would be better that I start another thread in the Kodi subforum. Thanks for the help!