Video killed the radio star

[nmg]

Soon after the garklet was born, a little over three years ago, ias sent me out with a shopping list, as follows:

• Lansinoh
• Cotton wool

I decided to get these from the big John Lewis in town, on the ostensible grounds that it was marginally closer to the car park than Boots. This also meant that I could browse the AV department. One thing lead to another, and I

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[rufusuk]

I'll be very interested to hear how you guys get on, as this is what we're running as well, although with an EyeTV DTT rather than the Diversity (dunno if there's any difference there).

We had some problems initially when the Mac just completely failed to record stuff, and John ended up installing Cappuccino to prevent the Mac going in to any kind of sleep or standby mode. Since then it's been way more reliable, but we still get some oddities when it starts recording, but stops again immediately, leaving us with 0 seconds of our chosen show recorded. We haven't got to the bottom of that yet.

So we're still using our Sky+ as a backup, although we need to bite the bullet and cancel that, and rely on the BBC iPlayer instead I think. I'm toying with the idea of getting the Elgato FreeSat adapter at that point, and seeing if FreeSat is any more reliable than Freeview...

If you have or are considering an iPhone, the Rowmote Pro app is the best kind of remote control we've found for the setup, although it's still a bit more clumsy than a standard remote.

Keep us posted, will be great to share tips :)

[nmg]

The difference seems to be that the DTT is single tuner, whereas the Diversity has two tuners. The tuners can be used independently (so that you can record from two multiplexes at the same time) or together (to improve the quality of the signal).

Thanks for the pointer to the Rowmote app - I'll give it a go.

[rufusuk]

Ah yes, I see now.

We went for the DTT as it was the cheap "proof of concept" option. I suspect once we have enough confidence in the setup we'll look into either the diversity or the FreeSat adapter, as there are times when the dual channel functionality would be useful.

It's worth paying for the "Pro" version of the Rowmote app, which gives you a little keyboard and mouse that you can switch to in addition to the control buttons.