Cool, I’m not sure if it’s strictly needed as there are already some projects for this, but thanks.
Thanks shiz. Yes this would be a SFF PC with a TBS DVB-C/T… card and a tvheadend setup. You can, of course, have root access on it. The software still needs a bit of cleanup. I hope to be able to do this in February. I can potentially bring it in person as I’m in Düsseldorf (close to the border) about once per month for work. Otherwise I live in Bayreuth… which is on the other side of the country. Of course I can also ship it if that is more convenient for you.
for ‘us’ the powerusage is important. We are always okay with a raspberry pi and the likes, a PC sounds a bit ‘heavier’. How many watts does this unit constantly use?
I currently don’t have any numbers for that. Doing it on a raspberry pi is certainly feasible, with external USB tuners. The DVB-T hat can only do DVB-T(2).
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I have learned about this https://www.raspberrypi.com/success-stories/tbs-mini-media-server/ It’s a Raspberry PI compute module based server with PCI-E slots. The power supply can do 40 Watts. Realistically we are looking at something like 15 Watts. Is this still within the acceptable range?
Unfortunately, no. Within our lease we can only run 2 physical servers (which we already do), fridge/freezers, network infrastructure, and some LED lighting continuously. We’re allowed to cheat a little for things that are incredibly energy efficient, but that’s more in the 3-5 W range.
Well the 3-5 watt range probably is impossible to reach. I’ll experiment with some smaller and cheaper equipment for DVB-T. Maybe someone wants to adopt such a setup, maybe I could go to a hotel and just hide it there. 
I can help you host a device at my home in Den Haag. I’m connected to the internet via fiber but do have a ziggo coax plug. I have a PC Engines APU 2E4 which has USB3 ports and minipcie, which could be used for the tuner. A separate box like raspberry pi is also possible of course.
Well USB adapters are a bit flakey because of USB. Teletext doesn’t need a lot of data. I can easily provide the hardware, particularly since it requires special non-mainline kernels. What is your power budget? I might use a thin-client since that would allow me to use PCI-E cards which are more reliably and cheaper.