Cord-Cutting, Or How to Stream your Way to Success
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Kharzette
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I ended up getting this one. I'll unbox it tomorrow. The box is BIG!
I might end up trying to put it in the attic unless it looks super extra sturdy.
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I’m not sure if you’re looking for anything else, but we use this at home for our antenna on a couple of TVs, and phones while in bed, in the house (there’s been a couple of early AM thunderstorms and watching off the antenna on my phone was easier than streaming from the channels website). It works well and kept me from having to run anything but a cable to the switch.
We don’t use the DVR portion much so I can’t really speak to that. We were using it for Amazing Race or something when our Paramount+ sub got dropped from canceling Cable. It worked well enough.
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Kharzette
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The antenna is much sturdier than the chinese crap I bought last time. Is it 70mph oklahoma winds sturdy? I dunno yet. I think I need to see it in the wind and see how much it catches the wind to decide.
It didn't come with a pole so I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to find one and where I'm going to put it.
It didn't come with a pole so I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to find one and where I'm going to put it.
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Kharzette
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Well I did an unscientific test and just held one of the radar dish pieces up in a strong wind and it seemed to be quite slippery, so I put it on the house today. Until I got it put together I didn't really understand how it you could aim the 2 seperate lobes, but it works well.
We are getting all the channels from both directions. There's 61 in all, but some channels are doubled up and some are tripled as we are getting stations from 3 different spots.
The westerly direction has 14ish and 20ish mile away towers with the easterly being 14. With the old shitty antenna we never got the further westerly channels.
I overtightened one of the nuts and broke the bolt, and lost a couple wingnuts stumbling around on the roof so I still need to find some replacement bits and go back up and tighten everything. It got dark by the time we had it all together.
I hope the wind doesn't destroy it. I thought about trying the attic. I had tested it at ground floor level and got nothing from it, so I figured higher is better.
We are getting all the channels from both directions. There's 61 in all, but some channels are doubled up and some are tripled as we are getting stations from 3 different spots.
The westerly direction has 14ish and 20ish mile away towers with the easterly being 14. With the old shitty antenna we never got the further westerly channels.
I overtightened one of the nuts and broke the bolt, and lost a couple wingnuts stumbling around on the roof so I still need to find some replacement bits and go back up and tighten everything. It got dark by the time we had it all together.
I hope the wind doesn't destroy it. I thought about trying the attic. I had tested it at ground floor level and got nothing from it, so I figured higher is better.
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Kharzette
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Well it has been a couple weeks and we've had a few really nasty storms and it hasn't budged at all. I still don't even have it secured properly as I've not gotten around to getting to a hardware store to get the wingnuts I'm missing.
The only time the signal seems to glitch a bit is early morning with the eastern channels that are direclty towards the sun, and then only slightly.
The only time the signal seems to glitch a bit is early morning with the eastern channels that are direclty towards the sun, and then only slightly.
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Burns
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This thread seems like the best place to ask if you need an invite to the site you linked, as the link you gave requires an account to do/see anything (reminder this is a public facing sub-forum scraped by google).
I'm looking at possible IPTV solutions for my parents. While everyone I know under 50 is "fine" with using multiple apps and/or don't really care about live TV, they want the old cable like experience that I only see Hulu Live and YoutubeTV giving. I would rather keep money out of Disney or Google's hands.
How long do IPTV providers usually stay around for and is there any manual updates needed once set up? Are you using Tivimate for a guide, something else, or an included guide?
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Burnem Wizfyre
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I’ve had thunder hosting for 8 years now, it automatically updates itself when you load the app but you can force it to update whenever.
You can favorite channels, it has local channels and they all have guides for what’s coming on. I’m not sure if you need an invite but i absolutely love it.
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Intrinsic
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Going to see if I can get this set up on my Roku and give it a demo. Didn’t get far bc the instructions on the thunder Iptv site are kind of jank, but I also had a 2 year old sleeping on me and writhing around. Got the IPTV Smarters app installed but haven’t figured out the configuration or anything.
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I’ve only ever used fire tv’s, I open downloader and use this.
Smart app code
694409
Then I just put in the user name and password, takes me 90 seconds to install it on a fire tv.
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Burns
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Thanks, that got the app installed (firestick) but no clue on how to set up an account. I sent them a message on the "contact us" section of the page you linked. Maybe they aren't accepting new accounts. I'm also a bit paranoid and probably want to pay with a pre-paid CC too, so would like to have access to the "knowledgebase" section as well.
From the screenshots you posted, it looks like the it might work might work and will probably give it at least a month try.
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What instructions? Are you sure you are on the right site? I'm hesitant to link directly here, due to google scraping bullshit, but THIS post is in Pol Pit, which google shouldn't have access too.
Quick edit: Also, Roku seems to be the most restrictive in terms of being able to get custom apps/apks loaded onto it's OS.
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Yeah sorry, guess I was on another site called Thunder IPTV and the one in the other post is not the same. I’ll look into that other one and Burnem’s instructions above.
Back when I was looking into this with Roku almost all of the offerings used IPTV Streamers or another app that was available on Roku. Plus there is a dev mode that pseudo-allows side loading of apps, but yeah, it isn’t the same as a Fire Stick.
That can be a tonight project.
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Burnem Wizfyre
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They also accept PayPal which is what I did for a while before I trusted them, I use Apple Pay now, but I’d probably never use my debit card but to be fair I never use that thing for anything except to pull out cash from an ATM so take that with a grain of salt.
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I was actually interested in trying this but yeah doesn't seem like there's any way to sign up?
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you dont "sign up" for IPTV. you message a Punjabi or Russian, or maybe a Nigerian on whatsapp and you send them money on paypal. You get sent credentials which work in IPTV apps. easy peasy tbh. Sounds a little wild but its true, lol. IPTV is like drug dealings, you and me buy grams to an oz of weed, but rarely do you and I buy pounds. Pounds of weed are like IPTV resellers, they deal in "credits" (or oz's), and above that is beyond my connections.
I may or may not be in the biz as a side hustle developing an app for iptv.
I may or may not be in the biz as a side hustle developing an app for iptv.
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