Finally, after nine months, and just before my birthday late this month,
found the correct person at the local fibre infrastructure greedy
monopoly craporation, that could throw the switch. I'm sending this over
FTTP now, and streaming music.

Lowest speed FTTP is 1000 times faster than mobile blackspot 4G.

I still want to get a DAB+ or DVB-T device for my desktop computer, but
it's no longer urgent.

Thanks everyone for your input. I'll have a look at some of these cards
later. For now it's Sunday, I get to enjoy my fast Internet, then I
should get some Devuan work done now that I can.

On 2026-01-09 19:27:24, Simon via Dng wrote:
> onefang <onefang_devuan@???> wrote:
>
> > I need a radio or TV card for my desktop.
> >
> > After too much moving house, I'm finally in a place where I can stay for
> > good. The problem though is the crap Internet. A greedy monopoly is
> > preventing me from using FTTP, so I'm stuck with 4G in a blackspot.
> >
> > I like to listen to music all day when at home, including when I sleep.
> > Chill music like Soma FM's Groove Salad, and SBS Chill here in Australia.
> >
> > With this crap Internet I can hear a few seconds of music streaming
> > before it stops to download the next few seconds. So no music streaming
> > for me.
> >
> > SBS is a local TV / radio network, they have a station called SBS Chill,
> > it broadcasts free to air on DAB+ radio and DVB-T TV, as well as
> > streaming. TV might be preferable, but perhaps I can get both DAB+ and
> > DVB-T?
> >
> > Hopefully I can receive these in this blackspot.
> >
> > So I'm looking for a PCIe 4.0 x16 card or USB based DAB+ / DVB-T device
> > that'll work fine under Devuan using VLC.
>
> You’ll find a lot of useful information on the MythTV (https://wiki.mythtv.org/wiki/Digital_Tuner_Cards) and LinuxTV (https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/Hardware_device_information) wikis - there are many devices that will work with Linux, with different pros and cons.
> In my MythTV backend I’m using a TBS DVB-T2 quad tuner PCIe card - could be the TBS6285. Been rock solid and I’d have no hesitation recommending it.
> In a previous backend, I used a couple of Hauppauge PCI cards - they were older and only DVB (not T2).
>
> In principle, it’s a matter of pick your card, pick your software, off you go. I can’t really comment on software as I’ve only ever used mine with MythTV - which would be overkill if all you are interested in is live radio. It’s not so much “what software will work with a particular card” - as long as the card comes with the right drivers to present using the standard APIs, then any software using those APIs will work with it.
>
>
> Just my 2d, Simon
>
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