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If you put your NUC into BIOS with computer-monitor attached, disconnect the computer monitor while NUC is still on in BIOS and then attach the new TV, did you then see the BIOS screen on the new TV?

I would like to say with this post kind of thank you to the libreelec community.

Many people for sure don't have spend days over days in searching the best DVB device to use for multimedia and complete general purpose (listening to analog and digital radio, watch tv, ...).

After many days of searching and after getting the device, testing and using it, i would like to recommend the probably most wide functionality and freedom(free, OpenSource software) supported DVB USB adapter.

Its based on the RTL2832P (not RTL2832U) Realtek chip. Thanks to this chip, you get a SDR ( Software Defined Radio ) on top. You can check with the rtl433 software the temperature your outdoor thermometer is sending to your home receiver, you can diagnose the pressure of many modern car and truck tires, but you can also do many other general multimedia things.

For example:

Listen to Analog FM radio

Listen to Digital DAB radio

Watch HD cable television (DVB-C)

Watch terrestrial television (DVB-T)

Watch HD terrestrial television (DVB-T2)

And much more thanks to SDR

And the device just cost about 20$ with worldwide shipping.

Its already supported in the linux kernel.

It does not need closed source binary firmware files to be loaded.

The only single thing you could be missing is DVB-S/DVB-S2 (satellite TV). Everything else most people use is supported.

Some additional information:

The demodulator build in this device is the Sony CXD2837ER. The RTL2832P has 2 PID filter paths. One for the internal demod and one for a possible external one.

dmesg output looks like this:

New USB device found, idVendor=15f4, idProduct=0131, bcdDevice= 1.00
Realtek RTL2832 successfully attached
cxd2841er_attach(): attaching CXD2837ER DVB-C/T/T2 frontend
dvbdev: dvb_create_media_entity: media entity 'Sony CXD2837ER DVB-T/T2/C demodulator' registered.

The device was build in original probably as Astrometa DVB-T2. But the new manufactured ones from china are the ones that i tested and fully recommend.

These are NOT affiliate links to the device:

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Okay, i told them to turn LibreELEC on 24 hours after the issue appeared and then keep it on for an hour and then turn it off again. Then turn it on and the issue is hopefully gone.

Quote from ghtester

You may lock the working Tvheadend server & client add-ons at working release to avoid automatic updates and do it manually.

I dont want to keep my parents in risk of some CVE's when they have been find and quickly fixed in new software releases.

This fix is really critical. Parents (over 60years old) are calling me on my phone why their only TV is suddenly broken and not a single TV-channel is working. This would be a many hours long drive in one direction.

When the update 10.0.0.127 is been compiled and released, did they only have to keep their 'TV' turned on (LibreELEC release: Generic.x86_64-10.0.2) and then it would automatically be installed like the 10.0.0.126 got installed?

The issue was like that (they told me on the phone): They turned on their TV and chose a channel to watch. But they got an error that playback does not work. Then they restarted everything and the list with the channels was completely gone/empty.

I really hope i wont have to drive such a long way to them to just fix their TV.