Well this is a little more complex than that, as I multiplex 6 analog channels in with the off air digital signals so I can still get the free OTA channels along with standard definition signals on the analog channels. It serves me well, as I do watch a fair bit of analog signals throughout the house.
this is actually something i was planning to do in the future, when i get a place of my own. maybe add a few fm transmitters too, and a youtube playlist!
Is there I can get my digital OTA channels (in US) converted into analog channels? Like if I have an analog tuner on an older VCR, channel 7 will give the digital channel 7, converted to analog. Is there a way to do it? I bought a DTV converter box with RF output and "analog passthrough".
Yes that is what I did with my dtv tuner boxes. Took the av output and sent that to an agile modulator. I have modulators set to 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 17.
@@KylesDigitalLab No it will show up on whatever channel the RF modulator is set to. Analog passthrougb was for when analog broadcasting was still on the air. It does nothing now. You get either channel 3 or 4 out of the RF output. And of course a/v. The a/v is what i plugged into an agile modulator. (Agile modulator can be set to whatever channel you choose.) I use commercial modulators from a CATV head end that will operate in the vhf band. Most consumer ones only operate on UHF range.
They shut down the analog channels last summer. I have never had cable. I had satellite TV for a few years, and have had IPTV delivered over my VDSL connection for several years, but I remember last summer seeing the message on TVs in restaurants that the analog signals were going away, and that they needed to call the cable co to get a digital box.
Digital transmission of standard definition signals takes less that 1/10 the bandwidth as analog carriage so it all comes to capacity. An operator can carrier six or more HD signals in the same 6 MHz channel as one NTSC analog and that's what the customers want.
I'd like to take a similar approach to providing analog in-house programming using RF modulators. Something I'm curious to learn is how each TV has an infrared remote control repeater that runs to that cable box in your distribution closet. Did you run an infrared repeater cable to each TV and then combine all the wires to a single emitter that you placed in front of the cable box's receiver? I ask since I, too, would like to have a single cable box broadcast via an RF modulator whose channels can be changed throughout the house.
In 2 rooms, I have IR receivers, and in my work shop the remote is teathered to the wall. I use the 4th pair (brown) on the tel wire to send the IF signals back to the closet and then just use IR LEDs salvaged from remote controls to control the equipment. One is in my media room, and the single IR receiver blasts 6 IR LEDs to control 6 different devices. The 3 IR receivers in the bedrooms and kitchen are just tied together to a single LED to control that 1 box.
For right now, all we have is older TV. I so wish there was ONE cable box that could be installed in a central location location that could transmit the like 80 channels to limit my parents confusion. If there is. I'd really like to obtain one.
There must be a way of getting a modulator for the Digital TV system you guys have in the Good OLD USA, BTW is the crypto system on the ATSC system Nigravision?.
Digital modulators are available. I keep getting companies trying to sell me one, but they are NOT cheap. Over 1000.00 for a single channel HD modulator. I would like a digital modulator, but not bad enough to spend that much. If they were 100 then I would already have one
When we switched from DECnet co-ax to CAT-5 at a place where I worked, a contractor installed all the cables in the building and brought them back to the network closet. A fellow employee was assigned the task of connecting the wires to the back of the patch panel. Well, he did. But he wasn't very sharp. We wound up with totally random locations on the patch panel and literally, a three-foot diameter ball of tangled wire in the attic.
That's what toners are for! You should see some of the buildings I work in. We are doing everything in fiber optic now, and some times they get the counts mixed up, and we spend hours putting lasers on the end of the run, then going back to the tel room, and turn out the lights and look for red glowing fibers.
+12voltvids We explained that to him, not that it did much good. Gotta love fiber! I bumped a loose adapter on the front of a Cisco switch and took down a steel rolling mill.
That would be tough at work. All the fiber is in protective runners, and equipment had guard rails around it. You would have to try hard to break it the way it is installed at the central offices.
I saw Netherlands 3.. do you actually receive that channel over there? Nice setup though :) Just curious, what's with the 12, 12-1, 12-2? How does that work and why is it that way? Or is that because of digital, a channel within the digital stream?
The music videos playing on channel 12 are on a hard drive, playing from a Raspberry Pi. They were all downloaded from UA-cam. As to the channels, there are my internally generated channels, and then the digital channels received off air. Regardless of what the channel number says, all the digital channels are broadcast on UHF and remapped to whatever channel the broadcaster wants to show, which is the same as where their analog channel was. All the channels with no .1 .2 ect are analog channels generated by my modulator setup. Those channels being 4,5,7,9,12,27 and 40. The other channels 2.1, 8.1, 10,1 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 17.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 32.1, and 42.1 are local TV stations received with an antenna. The modulator setup is as follows, in standard definition naturally. 4 (stereo) a dedicated cable box that the channel can be changed from multiple rooms. 5, in house video I use for testing, basically the rain and storm videos. 7 is the analog output of my main PVR, so I can watch what the wife is watching in another room, typically the garage when I am working on something. 9 is my security cameras, 12 is the music video player, also in stereo sound. 27 is an old satellite receiver that has an off air tuner in it, and I have it programmed to record the news broadcasts every day so I can watch them whenever I want from the off air channels. 40 is another one that I can put video for testing on. Usually it has an android box with live wallpaper and and analog clock display on it.
I'm in the UK, I thought my bedroom was bad! I see those huge modulators you have. A company called 'Maximum' make much smaller programmable modulators that work with systems M(Japan & USA frequencies)/B/G/D/K/I/L and UHF/VHF. But unfortunately on 230volts. They also do one that works with German A2 analog stereo. Models MT47/57. Thought you might be interested as you do sometimes mess with multistandard stuff.
Patrick L I have a few Holland micro modulators. Not in same league, or sport for that matter. the difference in picture quality between a head end modulator and a consumer are night and day. about the only thing they have in common is they take an a/v signal in and turn rf out. commercial units have notch, comb and bandpass filtering and produce a true vestigial sideband signal. consumer produce standard double sideband AM.
2:01 I have that EXACT same modulator and it's awesome. $ well spent because it still works but I rarely use it. I don't have a setup like yours. I like how you can record stuff off the cable. I wish you could record HD content. 12:34 it's 50 cent.
I record most of my stuff in HD. The only time I record in SD is when it is for someone else. I have a Hauppague HDPVR that has componet input. (Most of the newer ones have HDMI, and will not record protected content, however the original HDPVR used component input, so I just plug the component output from my IPTV box into it, and record in HD as an .mp4 file, and save it to a hard drive or USB stick. QUALITY IS EXCELLENT.
I'd love to record HD content but all I have in my room now is a coax wire running all the way to my DISH Receiver on TV 2 and that's SD only.TV1 is HD.
Back in the day when I was on Satellilte TV, and my dish receiver (Bell) was in the other room, I made a really long USB cable by basically cutting a USB cable in half, and then splicing in 50 feet of CAT5 wire to the 2 ends. I took my Hauppague HD capture box into the living toom and plugged it in, and ran the long USB cable back to my computer, and then just played back the recordings on the DISH PVR, and captured them in my computer room. Did that for years until I changed from satellite to IPTV about 7 years ago.
How can you record from IPTV just the same as any other TV service receiver or can you sniff the network traffic. My mom had that as AT&T UVerse and it was awesome. the internet was FAST and you can get tons of channels.
coondogtheman1234 I just take the component output and run it into my Hauppauge HD capture box. you have to unplug the hdmi when doing so because if hdmi is connected the analog HD is turned off.
The fan is on a timer that runs it at times that the equipment that produces the most heat would be active, that being the day and evening. It turns off after midnight when all the equipment would generally be off. I could put it on a thermostat, but not really any point, the timer option keeps everything nice and cool.
You taught me so many tidbits in this video, some outdated but still valid. Thanks! So how does Raspberry Pi work? How do you make it stream and control a HDD?
Paspberry Pi is just running OSMC (open source media center) whch is an XBMC / Kodi clone. From that there is an opetion to open files under the video tab, and the HDD plugged into the USB will be detected providing that it is formatted in ExFAT mode. There is an option to select random playback. Just put all the files in a folder (not the root) click on video, files and select the device. Right click on the folder that the files are in, and select PLAY. If random playback is selected it will play them in random, otherwise it will play in sequence, or you can create a playlist. Its great. Mine is a very old first generation and it has been running for many years 24/7. I'll do a video sometime showing how it is set up.
No they have no OS. You put the OS on an SD card, and the apps you want to run. I use mine as dedicated media players,, however they also will stream from the internet. Same software, just load on the repositories (thats the servers that stream the content.) This is where it becomes a legal grey area. The software, Kodi, OSMC ect is perfectly legal. Many people load on repositories that allow streaming pirated content. If you sell fully loaded boxes, then you can find youself in hot water. There are plenty of web sites that have set up automated scripts that do the "dirty" work for you. You just simply enter the address for the server, and download the required content and install it. The ones I have are just running bare bones OSMC as I don't stream content to them, I used them as media players to play local content already on a hard drive or USB stick, but I could plug in the ethernet cable and stream anything that is on the web if I wished. Yes they do 1080p as they do have HDMI out was well as composite. I use the older generation because it has a seperate video out, and a stereo mini plug for the audio. The Pi2 and Pi3 use a single jack for A/V like many of the new TVs that combine the stereo audio and video on a single 3.5mm plug, which needs a special adapter. The Pi2 and 3 are faster though, so as a streaming device for internet based content, they will search much faster when looking for content, and if you are using HDMI then this is not an issue. But again, in my use I am only sending mostly SD content (it will convert HD content down to SD to output as SD as well. The entire OS and program (they run linux) is stored on an SD or in th ecase of the Pi2 and Pi3 a microSD card. The installer (that runs on windows) formats the card for linux, and installs the software automatically. You then just insert the SD card into the pi, plug it into a monitor and eithernet cable, connect a mouse and keyboard to the USB connectors and plug it in. The rest of the install is done on the device automatically. Perhaps a video showing the steps if there is enough demand for this.
I think they came out a few years ago, not sure and they remained a mystery to me. I never knew about the alternate channel thing for modulators and the FM band how its used to a few channels. I wondered why my cable FM died one day. It was a good service, even supplying some AM stations in HIFI stereo.
Yes they had all teh AM and FM stations both local and the distant ones on the F< band on cable, and then one day BAM they were all gone as they needed the spectrum to put digital signals as HD rolled out and they ran out of bandwidth very quickly. They would put at least 50 SD digital channels in that spectrum, and 8-10HD channels, so the bandwidth was too valuable to use for just radio. That plus the fact that they have digital audio services on their digital boxes anyway. Just another way to rent you a digital box.
Ray M don't hold your breath. that is a very low priority, because to do it right I will have to totally disconnect everything and rewire it. if it ain't broke. it really isn't that bad. you saw the worst of it.
You can get HDMI to Fibre Optic Cable and a Fibre Optic Cable to HDMI adaptor unit which can use very fine Optical Fibre and is not effected by magnetic fields and you just use a Fibre Switch.
Loads of spagetti, you know what it does so thats all that matters :-D. If you decide to rework it one day, buy a roll of white parcel labels and a black marker pen, then you can wrap the label round each wire to form a tab to write on. But it works, so keep the door shut LOL :-D
All the cables are labeled, so I do know where they go, but there are some patch cords that go nowhere as the equipment they serviced have been removed. You didn't see them, but there are zip ties with ID tabs on each cable.
Ahh i see, my mistake. Just keep the cat out of that area, cats love to chew things, not nice if they bite into mains cables :-(. My mates dog wont leave 240v mains cables alone, ive told him to lay some false cables and connect a small pp3 9v battery across the wires, hopefully the dog will get a slight tongue zap and keep away from cables. 240v would be instant death to the doggy :-(
No power cables near the ground. Lowest equipment is a few feet off the ground, with most of it at eye level. Hey, I am lazy. I don't like getting down on the ground to work, and the closet is not very big. It is under the stairs, only about 3 feet wide.
That's why it looks like it does. Changing modems, then modulators. Next will be fiber to the house. Still have to figure out how to get fiber into there from the street. That will be a challenge.
A fuse is a safety device, and for safety really needs to be replaced with the same rating. Even though a 1.6a fuse is only 300 miliamps over the original, and one wouldn't think this would cause a problem, IF that unit were to burst into flames, and upon inspection it was found that an incorrect fuse was installed, that could be enough for an insurance underwriter to reject the claim. If a device is fitted with a 1.25 amp fuse, and you don't have that size, and you really need to get the unit going, I would first go down to say 1 amp and see if it blows. Most devices that have a 1.25 amp fuse won't draw even close to an amp under normal operating conditions.
Dave its hard to see what you have there in your closet because you didn't give us a wide shot of the whole thing...why? Showing up close shots makes it hard to follow the flow of signal.
nobody in my family can understand my wire spaghetti. hundreds of wires, even I get confused because I didn't label the wires. I've been going wireless more and more, wifi, bluetooth, RF modulators, IR, wires can get crazy. I like the Drake RF "transmitter", it can be cranked up a bit more than Blonder Tongue. My Blonder Tongue has cable ready channels, i.e. more channels. I have one of thos FTA SAT boxes, may get a dish someday to see what's still on sat. Don
My BT can be cranked to +60dB, which is pretty hot. The unit is tunable to any cable channel, however the 60dB amplifier is tuned for channel 12, as this was one that was used by Shaw cable, for the CTV2 network, so that was a special order preset to channel 12. Works for me, I want everything on the low band.
I did know where it goes when i installed and labeled it, but it has been changed so many times over the years I have to trace wires out now because they are all bundled up
i have something like this. i have a uhf to rca modulator connected to 2 roof antennas. and it broadcasts to my entire street. i call it the Scott street broadcasting network. and its on channel 27.3.1
I would have loved to have this kind of thing in 1982 to send my VCR output to the rest of the house on channel 3.
Well this is a little more complex than that, as I multiplex 6 analog channels in with the off air digital signals so I can still get the free OTA channels along with standard definition signals on the analog channels. It serves me well, as I do watch a fair bit of analog signals throughout the house.
this is actually something i was planning to do in the future, when i get a place of my own.
maybe add a few fm transmitters too, and a youtube playlist!
I have an FM transmitter here. About 100 mW it covers the house really nicely.
Is there I can get my digital OTA channels (in US) converted into analog channels? Like if I have an analog tuner on an older VCR, channel 7 will give the digital channel 7, converted to analog. Is there a way to do it? I bought a DTV converter box with RF output and "analog passthrough".
Yes that is what I did with my dtv tuner boxes. Took the av output and sent that to an agile modulator. I have modulators set to 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12 and 17.
@@12voltvids will a passthrough box do the same thing
@@KylesDigitalLab
Passthru just allowed the analog signals to pass through the RF connectors when it is off. It will work just fine.
@@12voltvids so for example digital channel 7 from my OTA antenna will show up as analog channel 7 on my older TV using a passthrough converter box?
@@KylesDigitalLab
No it will show up on whatever channel the RF modulator is set to. Analog passthrougb was for when analog broadcasting was still on the air. It does nothing now. You get either channel 3 or 4 out of the RF output. And of course a/v. The a/v is what i plugged into an agile modulator. (Agile modulator can be set to whatever channel you choose.) I use commercial modulators from a CATV head end that will operate in the vhf band. Most consumer ones only operate on UHF range.
We still get analog signal through basic cable here in The Netherlands, alongside the digital signal. When did they stop doing that in Canada?
They shut down the analog channels last summer. I have never had cable. I had satellite TV for a few years, and have had IPTV delivered over my VDSL connection for several years, but I remember last summer seeing the message on TVs in restaurants that the analog signals were going away, and that they needed to call the cable co to get a digital box.
Digital transmission of standard definition signals takes less that 1/10 the bandwidth as analog carriage so it all comes to capacity. An operator can carrier six or more HD signals in the same 6 MHz channel as one NTSC analog and that's what the customers want.
I'd like to take a similar approach to providing analog in-house programming using RF modulators. Something I'm curious to learn is how each TV has an infrared remote control repeater that runs to that cable box in your distribution closet. Did you run an infrared repeater cable to each TV and then combine all the wires to a single emitter that you placed in front of the cable box's receiver? I ask since I, too, would like to have a single cable box broadcast via an RF modulator whose channels can be changed throughout the house.
In 2 rooms, I have IR receivers, and in my work shop the remote is teathered to the wall. I use the 4th pair (brown) on the tel wire to send the IF signals back to the closet and then just use IR LEDs salvaged from remote controls to control the equipment. One is in my media room, and the single IR receiver blasts 6 IR LEDs to control 6 different devices.
The 3 IR receivers in the bedrooms and kitchen are just tied together to a single LED to control that 1 box.
Looks like I'm missing a lot of fun by living in a 2 room flat and having only a single TV with its own dedicated satellite box :)
Is there any risk of your in house channels leaking backwards up the cable to your roof top antenna?
No, because they are injected after the preamp which is a one way device.
For right now, all we have is older TV. I so wish there was ONE cable box that could be installed in a central location location that could transmit the like 80 channels to limit my parents confusion. If there is. I'd really like to obtain one.
you should connect these up to a little amp and have a mini TV station which could cover your street.
Might be accidentally broadcasting already through his antenna
@@joshm264
Not. Antenna goes into an amp first then into distribution chain.
There must be a way of getting a modulator for the Digital TV system you guys have in the Good OLD USA, BTW is the crypto system on the ATSC system Nigravision?.
He is Canadian.
Digital modulators are available. I keep getting companies trying to sell me one, but they are NOT cheap. Over 1000.00 for a single channel HD modulator. I would like a digital modulator, but not bad enough to spend that much. If they were 100 then I would already have one
hehe, Digital Modulators for DVB-T over here in Europe go for lowest $170 for 1 channel, up to $1000s for multi-channel
I just got an HDMI modulator for my church spent a tad under $400
You can but atsc modulators. Lots available but they are big bucks, as is close to 1000.00 for a single channel system.
When we switched from DECnet co-ax to CAT-5 at a place where I worked, a contractor installed all the cables in the building and brought them back to the network closet. A fellow employee was assigned the task of connecting the wires to the back of the patch panel. Well, he did. But he wasn't very sharp. We wound up with totally random locations on the patch panel and literally, a three-foot diameter ball of tangled wire in the attic.
That's what toners are for!
You should see some of the buildings I work in. We are doing everything in fiber optic now, and some times they get the counts mixed up, and we spend hours putting lasers on the end of the run, then going back to the tel room, and turn out the lights and look for red glowing fibers.
+12voltvids We explained that to him, not that it did much good.
Gotta love fiber! I bumped a loose adapter on the front of a Cisco switch and took down a steel rolling mill.
That would be tough at work. All the fiber is in protective runners, and equipment had guard rails around it. You would have to try hard to break it the way it is installed at the central offices.
I saw Netherlands 3.. do you actually receive that channel over there?
Nice setup though :)
Just curious, what's with the 12, 12-1, 12-2? How does that work and why is it that way?
Or is that because of digital, a channel within the digital stream?
The music videos playing on channel 12 are on a hard drive, playing from a Raspberry Pi. They were all downloaded from UA-cam.
As to the channels, there are my internally generated channels, and then the digital channels received off air. Regardless of what the channel number says, all the digital channels are broadcast on UHF and remapped to whatever channel the broadcaster wants to show, which is the same as where their analog channel was.
All the channels with no .1 .2 ect are analog channels generated by my modulator setup. Those channels being 4,5,7,9,12,27 and 40. The other channels 2.1, 8.1, 10,1 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 17.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2, 28.1, 28.2, 28.3, 28.4, 32.1, and 42.1 are local TV stations received with an antenna.
The modulator setup is as follows, in standard definition naturally.
4 (stereo) a dedicated cable box that the channel can be changed from multiple rooms. 5, in house video I use for testing, basically the rain and storm videos. 7 is the analog output of my main PVR, so I can watch what the wife is watching in another room, typically the garage when I am working on something. 9 is my security cameras, 12 is the music video player, also in stereo sound. 27 is an old satellite receiver that has an off air tuner in it, and I have it programmed to record the news broadcasts every day so I can watch them whenever I want from the off air channels. 40 is another one that I can put video for testing on. Usually it has an android box with live wallpaper and and analog clock display on it.
I'm in the UK, I thought my bedroom was bad! I see those huge modulators you have. A company called 'Maximum' make much smaller programmable modulators that work with systems M(Japan & USA frequencies)/B/G/D/K/I/L and UHF/VHF. But unfortunately on 230volts. They also do one that works with German A2 analog stereo. Models MT47/57. Thought you might be interested as you do sometimes mess with multistandard stuff.
Patrick L
I have a few Holland micro modulators. Not in same league, or sport for that matter. the difference in picture quality between a head end modulator and a consumer are night and day. about the only thing they have in common is they take an a/v signal in and turn rf out. commercial units have notch, comb and bandpass filtering and produce a true vestigial sideband signal. consumer produce standard double sideband AM.
2:01 I have that EXACT same modulator and it's awesome. $ well spent because it still works but I rarely use it. I don't have a setup like yours.
I like how you can record stuff off the cable. I wish you could record HD content.
12:34 it's 50 cent.
I record most of my stuff in HD. The only time I record in SD is when it is for someone else. I have a Hauppague HDPVR that has componet input. (Most of the newer ones have HDMI, and will not record protected content, however the original HDPVR used component input, so I just plug the component output from my IPTV box into it, and record in HD as an .mp4 file, and save it to a hard drive or USB stick. QUALITY IS EXCELLENT.
I'd love to record HD content but all I have in my room now is a coax wire running all the way to my DISH Receiver on TV 2 and that's SD only.TV1 is HD.
Back in the day when I was on Satellilte TV, and my dish receiver (Bell) was in the other room, I made a really long USB cable by basically cutting a USB cable in half, and then splicing in 50 feet of CAT5 wire to the 2 ends. I took my Hauppague HD capture box into the living toom and plugged it in, and ran the long USB cable back to my computer, and then just played back the recordings on the DISH PVR, and captured them in my computer room. Did that for years until I changed from satellite to IPTV about 7 years ago.
How can you record from IPTV just the same as any other TV service receiver or can you sniff the network traffic. My mom had that as AT&T UVerse and it was awesome. the internet was FAST and you can get tons of channels.
coondogtheman1234
I just take the component output and run it into my Hauppauge HD capture box. you have to unplug the hdmi when doing so because if hdmi is connected the analog HD is turned off.
Does the fan turns on automatically when get's hot in the room, or do you turn the fan on manually to keep the room cool down?
The fan is on a timer that runs it at times that the equipment that produces the most heat would be active, that being the day and evening. It turns off after midnight when all the equipment would generally be off.
I could put it on a thermostat, but not really any point, the timer option keeps everything nice and cool.
You taught me so many tidbits in this video, some outdated but still valid. Thanks! So how does Raspberry Pi work? How do you make it stream and control a HDD?
Paspberry Pi is just running OSMC (open source media center) whch is an XBMC / Kodi clone. From that there is an opetion to open files under the video tab, and the HDD plugged into the USB will be detected providing that it is formatted in ExFAT mode. There is an option to select random playback.
Just put all the files in a folder (not the root) click on video, files and select the device. Right click on the folder that the files are in, and select PLAY.
If random playback is selected it will play them in random, otherwise it will play in sequence, or you can create a playlist.
Its great. Mine is a very old first generation and it has been running for many years 24/7. I'll do a video sometime showing how it is set up.
So they come preloaded with an O/S and you download the program? Yes please show us more PI and how to use them.
No they have no OS. You put the OS on an SD card, and the apps you want to run. I use mine as dedicated media players,, however they also will stream from the internet. Same software, just load on the repositories (thats the servers that stream the content.) This is where it becomes a legal grey area. The software, Kodi, OSMC ect is perfectly legal. Many people load on repositories that allow streaming pirated content. If you sell fully loaded boxes, then you can find youself in hot water. There are plenty of web sites that have set up automated scripts that do the "dirty" work for you. You just simply enter the address for the server, and download the required content and install it. The ones I have are just running bare bones OSMC as I don't stream content to them, I used them as media players to play local content already on a hard drive or USB stick, but I could plug in the ethernet cable and stream anything that is on the web if I wished.
Yes they do 1080p as they do have HDMI out was well as composite.
I use the older generation because it has a seperate video out, and a stereo mini plug for the audio. The Pi2 and Pi3 use a single jack for A/V like many of the new TVs that combine the stereo audio and video on a single 3.5mm plug, which needs a special adapter.
The Pi2 and 3 are faster though, so as a streaming device for internet based content, they will search much faster when looking for content, and if you are using HDMI then this is not an issue. But again, in my use I am only sending mostly SD content (it will convert HD content down to SD to output as SD as well.
The entire OS and program (they run linux) is stored on an SD or in th ecase of the Pi2 and Pi3 a microSD card. The installer (that runs on windows) formats the card for linux, and installs the software automatically. You then just insert the SD card into the pi, plug it into a monitor and eithernet cable, connect a mouse and keyboard to the USB connectors and plug it in. The rest of the install is done on the device automatically.
Perhaps a video showing the steps if there is enough demand for this.
I think they came out a few years ago, not sure and they remained a mystery to me. I never knew about the alternate channel thing for modulators and the FM band how its used to a few channels. I wondered why my cable FM died one day. It was a good service, even supplying some AM stations in HIFI stereo.
Yes they had all teh AM and FM stations both local and the distant ones on the F< band on cable, and then one day BAM they were all gone as they needed the spectrum to put digital signals as HD rolled out and they ran out of bandwidth very quickly. They would put at least 50 SD digital channels in that spectrum, and 8-10HD channels, so the bandwidth was too valuable to use for just radio. That plus the fact that they have digital audio services on their digital boxes anyway.
Just another way to rent you a digital box.
would definitely be neat to see you clean up that wiring.. yes, complex sounding
Ray M
don't hold your breath. that is a very low priority, because to do it right I will have to totally disconnect everything and rewire it. if it ain't broke. it really isn't that bad. you saw the worst of it.
You can get HDMI to Fibre Optic Cable and a Fibre Optic Cable to HDMI adaptor unit which can use very fine Optical Fibre and is not effected by magnetic fields and you just use a Fibre Switch.
Cat5 and 6 works for me, but when it is time to go 4K I will have to loot to something else.
The quote "nothing's more permanent than a temporary solution that works" is sadly almost always true
Loads of spagetti, you know what it does so thats all that matters :-D.
If you decide to rework it one day, buy a roll of white parcel labels and a black marker pen, then you can wrap the label round each wire to form a tab to write on.
But it works, so keep the door shut LOL :-D
All the cables are labeled, so I do know where they go, but there are some patch cords that go nowhere as the equipment they serviced have been removed. You didn't see them, but there are zip ties with ID tabs on each cable.
Ahh i see, my mistake.
Just keep the cat out of that area, cats love to chew things, not nice if they bite into mains cables :-(.
My mates dog wont leave 240v mains cables alone, ive told him to lay some false cables and connect a small pp3 9v battery across the wires, hopefully the dog will get a slight tongue zap and keep away from cables.
240v would be instant death to the doggy :-(
No power cables near the ground. Lowest equipment is a few feet off the ground, with most of it at eye level. Hey, I am lazy. I don't like getting down on the ground to work, and the closet is not very big. It is under the stairs, only about 3 feet wide.
By the time you organize things, you will be adding more so quit now and keep going.
That's why it looks like it does. Changing modems, then modulators. Next will be fiber to the house. Still have to figure out how to get fiber into there from the street. That will be a challenge.
is it ok to replace a 250v /1.25a glass fuse with a 250v/1.6a fuse?
A fuse is a safety device, and for safety really needs to be replaced with the same rating. Even though a 1.6a fuse is only 300 miliamps over the original, and one wouldn't think this would cause a problem, IF that unit were to burst into flames, and upon inspection it was found that an incorrect fuse was installed, that could be enough for an insurance underwriter to reject the claim. If a device is fitted with a 1.25 amp fuse, and you don't have that size, and you really need to get the unit going, I would first go down to say 1 amp and see if it blows. Most devices that have a 1.25 amp fuse won't draw even close to an amp under normal operating conditions.
i fixed the tv and now its working fine.but i think i will not use it until i get a new fuse.thanks for the input.
Dave its hard to see what you have there in your closet because you didn't give us a wide shot of the whole thing...why? Showing up close shots makes it hard to follow the flow of signal.
I can't follow the flow of signal lol. Its been changed so many times over the years.
yep ive seen comms rooms that are worse lol .. keep making the videos ;) always fun and interesting
I've seen comm rooms that make my setup look very tidy.
Nice setup!
nobody in my family can understand my wire spaghetti. hundreds of wires, even I get confused because I didn't label the wires. I've been going wireless more and more, wifi, bluetooth, RF modulators, IR, wires can get crazy. I like the Drake RF "transmitter", it can be cranked up a bit more than Blonder Tongue. My Blonder Tongue has cable ready channels, i.e. more channels. I have one of thos FTA SAT boxes, may get a dish someday to see what's still on sat. Don
My BT can be cranked to +60dB, which is pretty hot. The unit is tunable to any cable channel, however the 60dB amplifier is tuned for channel 12, as this was one that was used by Shaw cable, for the CTV2 network, so that was a special order preset to channel 12. Works for me, I want everything on the low band.
He literally ran all the wiring for everything... and 3 min into the video says 'I dont know where half of the wiring goes'...
LMFAO!!!
I did know where it goes when i installed and labeled it, but it has been changed so many times over the years I have to trace wires out now because they are all bundled up
i have something like this. i have a uhf to rca modulator connected to 2 roof antennas. and it broadcasts to my entire street. i call it the Scott street broadcasting network. and its on channel 27.3.1
Not too bad seems likes a lot of work
Not really. It's a pretty simple set up, when you know what you are doing.
how much db does a ch3/4 modulator put out ?
Most are very low power. -50 or lower.
Not much but if you add an amplifier to it, the output increases.
Radio shack Manufactured their computers in the USA.
So cool.
I have been thinking about doing something like this in my house
I made some videos about it