I need to borrow (or buy) a Nebula PCI card

[bgowland]

OK a shot in the dark here but...

...if anyone has a Nebula DigiTV PCI card they would be willing to lend me for a short while (perhaps a month) I would be interested to hear from you. I would be prepared to pay the postage in both directions and also contribute a modest sum to your 'beer fund' or similar.

I might also consider buying second-hand if the price was right but I don't have much spare cash at the moment (I'll be unemployed in a few days time :eek: ).

As I said, a shot in the dark but please PM me if you can help.

Cheers,
Brian

[herbs]

I have one, but sorry I'm not willing to part with it as it's regularly in use. May I enquire what you want it for?

[bgowland]

I have one, but sorry I'm not willing to part with it as it's regularly in use.

lol - that's fair enough.

May I enquire what you want it for?

I've been asked by a friend to help develop an alternative scheduling system and recordings management system based on Nebula cards. I can connect into his organisation's network and access the existing systems' web interfaces but I can't do too much poking around in case I mess up any of their scheduled recordings - like you, their cards are in regular use so I can't borrow one of them.

No matter - if I can convince them the project is viable, they may be prepared to buy a third card that I could borrow for development.

On a related note - do you use the DigiTV application or is the card used just for GB-PVR? If you use the DigiTV app, how do you find it for reliability etc.? Which version do you have?

Cheers,
Brian

[herbs]

I used to use nebula's software but instead now use gbpvr with the hacked drivers to enable hibernate/suspend resume. Your friend does know that he can web schedule like in gbpvr with nebula's own software doesn't he? also he can use digiguide software to schedule recordings.

[bgowland]

Your friend does know that he can web schedule like in gbpvr with nebula's own software doesn't he?

Yep. It's not as simple as that though - I already did a case study.

The project is in a multi-user environment and needs to use the in-house web system for scheduling recordings and handling conflicts etc. Each user can also specify where the resultant recording is placed and will receive an e-mail notifying them that it is ready or if there has been a failure for any reason...

...that's the short version. It gets more complicated than that.

Cheers,
Brian