With the lack of any reliable source for STB hardware (a recent ebay purchase of quantity 3 of one item delivered 3 major variants of hardware) BATC believe there is a need for a reproducible DVB-S and DVB-S2 DATV standalone receiver using the Minitiouner hardware and Rpi4 host providing HDMI and Composite outputs.
With the Portsdown and Longmynd software and Minitiouner hardware, the worldwide ATV community has access to some very valuable open source resources and based on these, BATC believe the community has the resources to develop a dedicated DATV receiver.
https://github.com/BritishAmateurTelevisionClub/longmynd
https://github.com/BritishAmat…sionClub/portsdown-buster
The primary use cases would be a dedicated DATV receiver for home station use and a low symbol rate DATV receiver with reliable lock detection for remote use at ATV repeater sites. We have developed the following specification and are now looking for a small team of people (or one person) to pick this up and develop a project which will sit alongside Portsdown and Longmynd projects.
More details and the outline specification are posted here: https://forum.batc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6628
The BATC will support development of this project and use of the BATC github, forum and wiki is encouraged. BATC would be willing to provide bursary funding to cover project costs etc.
We think this would be a really useful tool for the DATV community so we are looking for a small team (or even just one person) who are willing and able to have a crack at this project!
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Noel - G8GTZ