punchycool 6 Posted April 7, 2016 Posted April 7, 2016 Dummy questions. Any help or links kindly appreciated. I cannot seem to get through the maze to figure this out. I've got emby working great for recorded and static media. I use iOS and roku 3 devices for content delivery. Now I seek help on the tv side. My OTA antenna is on my first floor connected to the big tv and is not great reception for the local cbs, abc, etc stations. Upstairs on floors 2 and 3 it is great with an OTA antenna hooked to a tv. I want to use emby, but unsure how, so I can pause, record live channels. Is simple.tv the solution I need to connect the OTA antenna on floor 3 of my home so I can broadcast it out over wifi and get DVR and connectivity with emby? Their site seems to be out of stock for this device. Or is the HDHomeRun device what I need to work with emby?
punchycool 6 Posted April 7, 2016 Author Posted April 7, 2016 For the big tv, I hope to use a roku app to get OTA content from my device - whatever that is. I do not yet have any tvs that natively support content delivery, but if I need that, please advise. Thx a million in advance.
denz 501 Posted April 7, 2016 Posted April 7, 2016 Hdhomerun is what you will need as emby supports it natively. Can you let us know how are things currently connected as you have three floors is it all through wireless or through Ethernet cables. The third floor you say that it will be wireless hdhomerun doesn't broadcast wireless it needs to be connected with an ethernet cable to your router. I am not sure but you could try the ethernet over power to connect the hdhomerun and then the other side to your wireless router. Let us know a bit more of your set up then we could help you even more.
punchycool 6 Posted April 7, 2016 Author Posted April 7, 2016 Third floor has the router connected to modem. I'm on a stable 120 Mbps download line with 15 Mbps up. I hope to plug in the homerun device via ethernet to router so it'll be on the third floor next to router. I am hoping for a single OTA antenna on third floor next to my router connected to the homerun via coax(?). Then, push out the signal via wifi, which is great on my property, to devices including my big tv on floor one.
punchycool 6 Posted April 7, 2016 Author Posted April 7, 2016 (edited) Oh and I only have Ethernet on floor 3 at the router. Rest of my home relies on wifi. Edited April 7, 2016 by punchycool
denz 501 Posted April 7, 2016 Posted April 7, 2016 I am surprised that you can get wifi signal that far. If it is a strong signal then it should work I am not from that side of the world but from what I read on the forums you would also need to subscribe to schedules direct to feed the guide data to emby server and have those fancy thumbnails that unfortunately we don't have here. I assume that because it is over the air it is not encrypted you don't need a cable card. I would suggest that you purchase one that has dlna and transcoding capabilities since roku doesn't support mpeg2. From the website it is called hdhomerun extend.
punchycool 6 Posted April 7, 2016 Author Posted April 7, 2016 Thx Denz. So with a homerun extend connected to my router, and configured through my emby ubuntu server, how do I pull in the content on my big tv downstairs? Do I use the emby for roku app, some homerun for roku app, or do I need something else?
denz 501 Posted April 7, 2016 Posted April 7, 2016 (edited) Once you get the homerun extend you configure it you would need a windows pc to download updates from silicondust website so the firmware on the hdhomerun device gets updated and to access it you just type my.hdhomerun.com and search for the channels. Then go to emby server live tv tab it should pick it up immediately like it does mine and to have a guide you need to subscribe to schedules direct for guide data. You can watch it through roku app the new apple tv doesn't have live tv support yet. I heard that many users are using nvidia shield as that one has built in mpeg2 decoder. I should say at the start just buy hdhomerun extend and subscribe to schedules direct once that is set up and working properly than introduce other products. Edited April 7, 2016 by denz
punchycool 6 Posted April 8, 2016 Author Posted April 8, 2016 Denz, you're saying the firmware is an exe file that must be pushed from a windoze box to the HDHomeRun Extend? Maybe I can use a Windows vm in Linux, eh? Or will I not be able to talk through the socket layer?
punchycool 6 Posted April 8, 2016 Author Posted April 8, 2016 (edited) Denz, what kind of horsepower do I need on my server box running emby to push OTA channels to say, 3 devices (tv, phone, iPad) at once? What's the min requirements of the PC in terms of processor speed/cores and RAM? Is the graphics card a factor for this or is that all offloaded to the HDHomeRun box? Other than that, thanks! I'm ordering the extend box. Edited April 8, 2016 by punchycool
denz 501 Posted April 8, 2016 Posted April 8, 2016 Denz, you're saying the firmware is an exe file that must be pushed from a windoze box to the HDHomeRun Extend? Maybe I can use a Windows vm in Linux, eh? Or will I not be able to talk through the socket layer? I went on their website and it looks like they have a bin file so maybe you don't have to install windows this is the link https://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=116&t=2484. At the moment don't buy anything first set up hdhomerun to see can you watch it through roku box. Once you receive it we can help you further.
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