[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:48:01PM -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> Interesting new doohickey for those of you into home-brew DVR:  Two HDTV
> tuners and an ethernet port in a box for $169.  The best news is that
> there is a LGPL command line client that runs on Linux for controlling
> it, plus it's supported by MythTV.  I know what just went to the top of
> my father's day wish list...

I got one a month or two ago. It works great.  Using it for OTA-8VSB
reception, don't have cable.  Of course, this being HDTV, you are
working with 6-8G of data an hour.  Plus, it takes a pretty good machine
(or a slower box with a XvMC-compatible video card) just to play
it.  I have one tuner set up to work with mythtv, and the other
one is mostly a record-only kind of thing run out of cron.

I went with this instead of a PCI-based solution, a) because it has
two tuners for a reasonable cost, b) because I didn't have to write
a ATSC/DVB subsystem and drivers for NetBSD for publicly-undocumented
Conexant and/or NXP chips and various brands of front-end demodulator
chips ;) .

BTW, all the local stations out of Alleman have digital transmissions,
unfortunately, KDMI, which carries a few stations, has been having
transmission issues (i.e. I only get usable reception less than 10% of
the time) (KDMI broadcasts: 56.1 KDMI-DT, 23.1 KCWI-DT, 34.1 KEFB-TV)

Perhaps the biggest surprise, 11.1 is 24-hour HD from PBS.

Also, the QoS features of my FSM726 are useful to make sure that TV
takes priority over other network traffic.

	Jonathan Kollasch
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