2023-04-14, 05:21 PM
My current NPVR system is based on a somewhat old piece of hardware (circa 8+ years old) and running Windows 10 with a Black Gold PCIe dual DVB-t and DVB-S tuners. This gives me 4 possible tuners for recording/viewing.
I'm also still on the old legacy V4 NPVR software (which I have to say works very well 99% of the time).
I'm looking to upgrade the core hardware to a new system capable of windows 11 with latest NPVR software and wondered if switching to using USB based tuners would be viable instead of trying to reuse the old Black Gold card (the manufacturer seems long gone and support non-existent)?
I was thinking of using the Hauppage WinTV-dualHD DVB-T and a couple of WinTV-UnoHD DVB-S USB tuners. The motherboard would support multiple USB 3/2 ports.
The wife often records multiple channels simultaneously whilst playing back previous recordings so that is a must capability. (works well on the existing system without any performance issues). Most recordings are now HD.
Has anyone got any experience or suggestion as to whether multiple USB tuners is a viable build?
I'm also still on the old legacy V4 NPVR software (which I have to say works very well 99% of the time).
I'm looking to upgrade the core hardware to a new system capable of windows 11 with latest NPVR software and wondered if switching to using USB based tuners would be viable instead of trying to reuse the old Black Gold card (the manufacturer seems long gone and support non-existent)?
I was thinking of using the Hauppage WinTV-dualHD DVB-T and a couple of WinTV-UnoHD DVB-S USB tuners. The motherboard would support multiple USB 3/2 ports.
The wife often records multiple channels simultaneously whilst playing back previous recordings so that is a must capability. (works well on the existing system without any performance issues). Most recordings are now HD.
Has anyone got any experience or suggestion as to whether multiple USB tuners is a viable build?
NPVR Version= 7.0.1.241229
Intel i5 Ten Core 14400 + 16GB DDR5 in Gigabyte B760 AX Motherboard
Windows 11 Pro 64bit
TBS-6902 dual DVB-S tuner
TBS-6205 quad DVB-T tuner
500Gb System Disk (M2 Nvme SSD)
4Tb Media Store (2 x 2Tb M2 Nvme SSD Spanned)
Raspberry Pi3 B+, Pi4B (OSMC) & Pi5 (XBian) running Kodi v21.1
Intel i5 Ten Core 14400 + 16GB DDR5 in Gigabyte B760 AX Motherboard
Windows 11 Pro 64bit
TBS-6902 dual DVB-S tuner
TBS-6205 quad DVB-T tuner
500Gb System Disk (M2 Nvme SSD)
4Tb Media Store (2 x 2Tb M2 Nvme SSD Spanned)
Raspberry Pi3 B+, Pi4B (OSMC) & Pi5 (XBian) running Kodi v21.1