Sanrith Descartes
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Ours was pretty decent at our distance. Dont recall any snow, just sometimes the shit would fade out and come back.
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Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success
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Kharzette
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Wow this one is way better than the DTV gov one. Cool! Lists all the little stations around me. Most I didn't even know existed.
Lanx
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do not buy omnidirectional antenna, it's only for city folk who have strong signals, you need a directional one like the one i linked, they all come from 1 direction anyway, so why even bother w/ a 360 one?
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Lanx
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just try it, honestly you can just assemble it right next to your tv and point it in the proper nswe direction and it'll work, it's just more optimal to be on the roof and w/ higher elevation
Kharzette
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I'll give it a go. Will order it today. Need to string cat6 to that side of the house for the discovery+.
I was thinking of one of these little things for the discovery+...
Apparently the tv will do the digital tuning so no need for a converter box \o/
I was thinking of one of these little things for the discovery+...
Apparently the tv will do the digital tuning so no need for a converter box \o/
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Arative
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You can try this site
Antennas Direct | TV Antennas Reinvented
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May be able to point you in the right direction for an antenna.
Asshat wormie
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Finally canceled my cable subscription. I dont remember the last time I turned the TV to the HDMI1 port. Faggot FIOS told me I have to pay $150 dollars because the change of service requires an upgrade to a new and faster data plan. I told them to eat my ass and that I am going with some other provider and all of a sudden I became a valued customer for whom all fees are to be waived. Faggots. $50 a month saved.
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Kharzette
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It worked! Thanks so much everyone for all the suggestions. The 30 dollar antenna I got is cheap and flimsy and way smaller than I expected, but I slapped it up on the same pole my wireless internet is on, and just kind of left it hanging there halfass pointed in the right direction, and immediately got a great picture and 15ish channels of crap. (I then secured it properly)
The picture is really nice, I guess digitial it is all or nothing. Now I just have to figure out how to get discovery + in there. I'm thinking a small pi like device or maybe a firestick if the wireless will reach that far. I might end up stringing some cat6 through the attic though.
The picture is really nice, I guess digitial it is all or nothing. Now I just have to figure out how to get discovery + in there. I'm thinking a small pi like device or maybe a firestick if the wireless will reach that far. I might end up stringing some cat6 through the attic though.
Denamian
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If you're looking for a simple streaming stick, I have the best luck with the Roku interface for non tech savvy people. I gave my old TCL TV to my parents and even my Dad can use the Roku interface.
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BrutulTM
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I wish all cheap TVs didn't have some kind of streaming stick built into them. My Amazon fire TV in my bedroom is like 3 years old and it still works fine but the fire stick that it's built around is now super fucking slow and half the apps crash on opening. I would just toss the fire stick and get a Chromecast with Android TV or Roku but the whole damn TV is built around the now shitty fire stick.
Arative
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If you wanted to go an all in one device but it would be somewhat expensive, do an Nvidia shield with a USB astc tuner. Can use live channels for tv and then have any streaming app you wanted on the device
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Kharzette
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I'm thinking a USB tuner is going to be needed. The slow channel changes on the tv's built in tuner are super annoying.
I'm thinking I can do a usb tuner with nextPVR plugged into Kodi, then an addon for discovery +. Maybe with that pi-like I linked earlier running debian or something.
Then a flirc USB remote reader and some kind of cheap simple remote.
I'm thinking I can do a usb tuner with nextPVR plugged into Kodi, then an addon for discovery +. Maybe with that pi-like I linked earlier running debian or something.
Then a flirc USB remote reader and some kind of cheap simple remote.
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OK, I'm at a quandry point. I got an omnidirectional powered antenna and put it in the attic for my mom's TV at her house and it's a solid barely recalled any issue with any channel. (Here in Dallas almost all the stations broadcast from Red Oak which is SSW of Dallas, less than 50 miles from my house in NW Dallas).
Is there a compelling reason to worry/want an antenna mounted up on top of the house at this point? Seems just bolting it to a spot in my attic worked enough. Here's the antenna I got :
Is there a compelling reason to worry/want an antenna mounted up on top of the house at this point? Seems just bolting it to a spot in my attic worked enough. Here's the antenna I got :
Burns
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All you can do it try. It shouldn't take too long to figure out if it will work. Do you have a tv that can easily be brought out to the garage? Before running any wires in the walls, I would just run a loose wire down the ladder and hook up the antenna to various mounting positions you want to try.
I tried putting an antenna (pic below) in our attic, in a house that was ~40 miles from those Antenna and I couldn't get shit. I wasn't about to climb up on steep roofs, run a wire all the way up there, and then stand there trying to get it aimed correctly, to try it outside, so no clue if it would have worked otherwise.
I am not ruling out user error, on my part. I was trying to use HD Homerrun as well and spent a bunch of time fiddling with it all.
Gives exact distances and angles, if you put in your address:
https://www.tvfool.com
Antenna I used:
Arative
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You can do that. Probably a cheaper route than an Nvidia shield. Might come with support headaches if something breaks.
Kharzette
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All my crap arrived yesterday. I've been too busy watching world cup to get anything going yet, but the la potato has some prebuilt linux images. I'm going to try one of those in a bit.
I've also gotta figure out where to plug the fan in. There's lots of pinx piny info out there but nobody says which connector. There's like 5.
I frogot how tiny these little boards are. I made a pi3 for a nephew a few years back.
I've also gotta figure out where to plug the fan in. There's lots of pinx piny info out there but nobody says which connector. There's like 5.
I frogot how tiny these little boards are. I made a pi3 for a nephew a few years back.
Kharzette
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I had my doubts about this little 35 dollar potato, but it plays vids off a file server amazingly well.
I'm using a premade image called LibreElec that already has all the drivers and kodi set up. The RCA remote I bought wasn't recognized but I manually made a mapping for it, which was very tedious. It sometimes double hits the buttons when you press which is super annoying. Also up/down/left/right double as volume and channel and that is causing problems with the kodi UI.
I've tried 2 tuner addons so far with no luck, but I haven't yet strung the cable to get the box in the actual tv room where the antenna is. I've plugged in a shitty little antenna that came with it but haven't picked anything up yet.
Tvheadend is enormously overcomplicated though, so I'm likely messing something up. I'll figure it out eventually.
One issue I'm having, even with previous images where I was just sitting at an ubuntu desktop, is that sometimes the screen will just blank to black for a second. The machine is still going as I can hear audio and such, but the video blanks out. Doesn't seem to be a heat thing as the cpu/gpu temps are around 106F loaded.
The hauppauge usb tuner is so fat it very nearly blocks all 4 of the potato's usb ports. Luckily you can ssh into it.
I'm using a premade image called LibreElec that already has all the drivers and kodi set up. The RCA remote I bought wasn't recognized but I manually made a mapping for it, which was very tedious. It sometimes double hits the buttons when you press which is super annoying. Also up/down/left/right double as volume and channel and that is causing problems with the kodi UI.
I've tried 2 tuner addons so far with no luck, but I haven't yet strung the cable to get the box in the actual tv room where the antenna is. I've plugged in a shitty little antenna that came with it but haven't picked anything up yet.
Tvheadend is enormously overcomplicated though, so I'm likely messing something up. I'll figure it out eventually.
One issue I'm having, even with previous images where I was just sitting at an ubuntu desktop, is that sometimes the screen will just blank to black for a second. The machine is still going as I can hear audio and such, but the video blanks out. Doesn't seem to be a heat thing as the cpu/gpu temps are around 106F loaded.
The hauppauge usb tuner is so fat it very nearly blocks all 4 of the potato's usb ports. Luckily you can ssh into it.