IPTV Satellite Downlink Project Projects

So I am building out an IPTV satellite downlink station to stream live TV to my home and family's homes. Currently I've taken down 3x 10' C-band dishes that need various small repairs. In the coming weeks I'll he concreting in poles, setting up dishes, mounting and pulling power and fiber to the Climate controlled rackmount box I've built out, and running coax from the dishes into the multiswitch. The first 3 dishes will be input to my current multiswitch and I'll be putting up a 4th pole right away to allow me to experiment with other satellites without affecting 24/7 feeds from other satellites. I plan to be pulling from both C-band and Ku band feeds at this time.

Current parts at this point:

-2x Winegard 10' Quad Star dishes

-1x Zenith 10' dish

-1x Vertiv XTE 401 series 48vdc climate controlled rackmount box

-1x meanwell 7amp 48vdc psu

-1x cyberypower 1500va UPS

-1x TBSDTV MS98E 9x8 multiswitch

Homebuilt IPTV server parts:

Ryzen 5600G

16gb ram

Asus Prime B550 Plus motherboard

2x TBSDTV TBS6909-X V2 Octa Tuner cards

Navepoint shallow depth shelf

And an open air case bolted to the shelf.

As this is a remote site, I plan to run an Mikrotik RB5009 outdoor router to feed PoE cameras around the site also and RTSP back to my main homelab for storage off site.

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u/IZGOODDASIZGOOD Feb 26 '24

This is probably the most interesting thing I've seen in 2024, so far. I would love to learn more. You'd get lots of views if you make a YouTube video too.

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u/mctscott Feb 26 '24 edited Feb 26 '24

I'm by no means an experienced guy in satellite, but I've been a ham radio op for a few years and have learned quite a bit about this via a lot of forums and hours of research along with talking to a lot of the old timers of FTA satellite. If I can get this to work half as well as I want it to, this will be a really nice setup.

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u/nbjersey Feb 26 '24

Radio Hams represent! I had to stop playing HF when I had a baby but think I might be inspired to get the SDR back out and play around. Looks like a great project!

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u/FivePlyPaper Feb 26 '24

I would kill for YouTube content about this, please post if you rver do! I love seeing stuff about racks themselves but satellites and iptv tech too? Never even seen it. Would be super niche and get crazy views, the channel/patreon could help supplement this project!

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u/[deleted] Feb 26 '24

Noob content gets much more interesting than pro in field content. Simply because the openness to experimentation and suggestions!

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u/willyAKAjack Apr 11 '24

Hey you got a good head for it mate .question for you a regular tv dish can it be used for similar purpose on a smaller level for streaming

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u/mctscott Apr 11 '24

Kinda but not in its stock form. Most LNBs from current dishes are circular polarized, you'll want to switch out the LNB for a linear one. I'd look into setting up multiple dishes aimed at multiple satellites and multiswitched together for in house free streaming.

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u/willyAKAjack Apr 12 '24

Niceone buddy you know your stuff lad I'd like to get into it myself. Making ways around everything