So i'm hoping to ditch sky, i was thinking about keeping freesat, but the lack of Channel 4 HD is really off putting. Plus our nets horrible, so streaming quality is almost worth crying about(~4mb). Even though we have sky, my girlfriend still wont switch the tv to the roku and watch stuff through the on demand apps and through google play. The aim of my game is to try and have everything in the one place. Hah! Good timing! I was literally gonna set this up either this week or next. So currently no further forward, but will update this thread if anything changes when I review this in the future. No in built EPG, so you are relying on Over the Air EPG from TVheadend or have to subscribe elsewhere to an XML EPG. No Trial of the premium features (although to be fair was only ~£4 for a month subscription) Switching between TV Channels takes "ages" ~5 seconds plus (which coming from Sky or even a freeview box/smart tv) is unacceptable. DVD rips) don't play correctly, unless forcibly transcoded e.g. Roku Express has a bug that means most interlaced streams (and e.g. Media library seems to refresh better, e.g. PS4 Client is terrible, likely due to being updated a lot less (and seems some of the other clients suffer from this) PS4/Roku/Android - after finding this out, this is also a deal breaker as fails on the Ease of Use front. Traditional TV Guide EPG "Grid", not available on most of the Plex frontends e.g. other movies you have with the same Actor's in. Media library is good, could see myself storing DVDs and Blurays, and the Actor/Genre linking is good, suggesting e.g. Search function works well (like sky hd), finding and listing all showings of a programme Built in TV EPG service, so don't have to rely on over the air EPG or external service, tested with the Hauppauge card and worked decently. However after some diagnosis with linux dvb tools (w_scan), turns out the best signal is actually coming from a different transmitter (Waltham vs Belmont), so likely my aerial is pointing the wrong way! I've tried a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 PCI dual tuner - this works natively in Plex (with just Windows drivers), and in Emby (requires Hauppauge software to be installed) - this was an old card I had lying around.Ĭurrently using an Xbox One Digital Tuner (this supports DVB-T2 HD), and a Sony PlayTV (Dual tuner DVB-T), both of which are supported under TVHeadend (that I'm currently running of a Raspberry Pi 3B, using Libreelec).Īfter testing with "portable" aerials, I decided to try with my main TV aerial (mounted in the loft) - I couldn't understand why I was getting a worse signal. Freeview PVRs or SmartTV's that offer some but not all apps). so is an ideal starting point for a solution (vs e.g. Roku offer Amazon Video/Netflix/Now TV, as well as Plex/Emby, and all the various catchup apps e.g. I picked up a Roku Express (primarily as my son hadn't got a smart TV and wanted youtube access), but it's also doubled as a test device, for a possible solution. for Game of Thrones etc), multiple Freeview/Freesat tuners to record multiple programmes at the same time (recording live tv is a must, as our internet connection is relatively poor <30mbps so minimizing use of catch-up streaming is preferred) Needs include: Access to Sky content e.g. Wife Acceptance Factor), I wanted to look into what alternatives were out there, even if only on a cost front. Following on from some discussion in here: I just wanted to collect some of my experiences of testing Plex/Emby and a few other bits and pieces as a Sky Q style alternative.Ĭurrently have Sky Q and previously have had Sky HD etc for the last 10 years - based on the available content, and ease of use (e.g.
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