I have already bought 4x Vu+ turbo tuners, I have to therefore try to use as many of them as possible. I've just bought 2x sundtek usb tuners.
Hopefully Vu+ turbo works with Sundtek in one box to give me dual tuner capability. Otherwise I have to sell all 4x turbo tuners and buy 2x more sundtek usb tuners.
I wish I knew Vu+ turbo tuners are so poor. I assumed as I have a couple Vu+ solo2 I want to add cable tuners to, that same brand, Vu+, would be better suited.
If I knew all this before I would have just bought 4x sundtek but I had no real way of knowing. Couple of people on forums said 2x turbo tuners should work together and no reason why it shouldn't. I could not have known without buying and trying.
I bought a Solo4k last year but I didn't like it, went back to my solo2. Main reason being a couple of plugins I use were not available or didn't work properly on boxes with ARM processors. I'm looking into whether this is still the case as I still have the solo4k.
Fingers crossed, all works out with the "mix and match" as you put it.
At some point I will get the Ultimo 4k, once the price comes down a little. Although it is quite large.
I tried 2x vu+ turbo usb tuners on one box, with the official Vu+ image and the box just gets stuck in boot. Works with 1x turbo plugged in. So seems a vu+ driver issue. I sent a message on Vu+ official site, a bug report but received no acknowledgement nor reply since, which was many days ago. I don't know how else to get Vu+ to sort the issue out.