[Cialug] hd homerun tv tuner for sale

[Matt Stanton]

I have one of the dual-tuner HDHomeRuns, and I use it for local OTA signals.  I can pick up 8, 13, 17 (technically 16, but shows up as 17.1/17.2?/17.3, btw), 19, 23, 39, and 41 if you want it (41 is the home shopping network, and it is run by some strange station that isn't a TV station call nor an amateur radio call).  I can also move the antenna to pick up channel 11 (Iowa Pucblic TV) if I don't mind losing 13.  I can get 5 if I don't care about any other channel.  I have one of those flat panel indoor TV antennas that probably go for $70 or so at Best Buy, or maybe cheaper at Walmart.

I don't have cable TV or satellite, but I do make up for it a bit by subscribing to Netflix and Hulu Plus.  Unfortunately I never got to the point where I set up a MythTV box, but I did set it up to run with Windows Media Center.  After setting up WMC, I tried to get MythTV working and found that WMC had taken control of the tuners, which messed up the setup process for MythTV.  Since WMC does a great job of recording the shows I just never got around to switching over to MythTV.  I may set up MythTV in my Ubuntu VM sometime and configure the VM to boot with Windows if I end up deciding to buy Workstation 9.  Unfortunately, I can't get any computer on my LAN to play the recorded files, including other Windows computers (my box is Win7, but the others are Vista).  MS changed the file format for the saved TV recordings with Windows 7, and not only have the ffmpeg folks not completely caught up, other versions of Windows simply can't read them.  You can convert the .wtv files to the older .dvr-ms format using the context menu for each file one at a time, but that gets really tedious.

In the end I wish I had gone through the trouble of setting up MythTV on a dedicated box, but I'll have to settle for a VM once I figure out where I'm going to land as far as hypervisors are concerned.

-- Matt (N0BOX)

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Nathan C. Smith" <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group' <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 3:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] hd homerun tv tuner for sale

I don't think I could do it (well, it would take me a long time) - but somebody of your caliber could probably rig VLC or another program that can capture the stream with a command line to run on a schedule to make a recording.  I've used my HDHomeruns with VLC quite a bit and it works pretty well though it can be hackish.

HDHomerun works with Windows Media Center really well so if you have that available you are golden.

-Nate

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Ollie
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 2:18 PM
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
Subject: Re: [Cialug] hd homerun tv tuner for sale

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

Doh! I'm such an idiot... I intended this to be a private reply but I
was in such a hurry to reply I forgot to check the sender address.

Anyway, since I've already wasted some of the LUG's time, I'll waste
some more...

Short of setting up a full-blown MythTV installation, does anyone have
recommendations on scheduled recording of video from a HDHomeRun?  I
currently use Plex Media Server for serving up my digital media but it
doesn't include any sort of recording options.

-- 
Jeff Ollie
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