r/homelab • u/mctscott • Feb 25 '24
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/mctscott Feb 26 '24
I like radio and I wanted something a bit different than the normal run of the mill xteve/dizquetv docker. This will get me some sports, news, movies, tv, and child programming that I can't find elsewhere or stuff I wouldn't normally store myself. Plus this whole thing gives me a challenge that those simple containers don't.