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So I've been fiddling a lot recently with adding full live TV functionality to my standard all-singing-and-dancing RPi+Arch+Kodi box of tricks image with great success: getting the latest tvheadend and media_build git branches compiled and playing nicely with various dvb adaptors was a bit of fight but I'm now pretty happy with the results except for one last annoying issue. Several people I know running these things (including me actually) have an old Sky satellite dish still stuck on the wall which as far as I know is functional - the LNB is still attached at least and I have the coax cable terminated inside behind the TV. It would be nice to use those dishes if at all possible. Getting DVB-T/T2 adaptors functional on Linux wasn't too bad but the DVB-S feed - if there even is one - from the satellite dish is proving way more stubborn* and I am by no means an expert on satellite TV. Obviously I've googled a fair bit and pored through some Sky forums but getting a definitive answer is proving difficult. Does anyone know for sure if an old Sky dish (as in, Sky ceased provisioning the paid service X years ago but left all the kit in place) can provide a working output that can be fed into a Linux machine? Instructing the software to scan for free to air (is that FreeSat?) transmissions on bird Astra 28.2ÂE seems to nearly get there, reporting 83 muxes and what seems to be the correct frequencies but can't resolve any of the services into something usable. I'm reasonably sure that all the software side of things is working fine now but perhaps I need to do "something" to the dish? Can and do Sky "disable" the dish somehow when you leave their service - I've read some accounts that you can pay a leaving charge of Â20 and continue to receive FreeSat channels but that's presumably using their old set top box which I've long binned anyway, plus we left way before that was even an option. But that wouldn't effect the actual dish still receiving unencrypted signals would it? Perhaps I just need to pay a satellite dude to come to my house and use some gadget to adjust it and make it sure it's pointing in the correct direction? Either way, I'd really like to know if these old Sky dishes can still be of some use via a DVB-S adaptor into a Linux system. Anyone got any ideas? Cheers * in my case, it didn't work on the previous Win7 HTPC build either to be fair -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq