DVB-T2 tuners are a bit more pricy, but you can often find decent USB models with Linux support for £25ish, allowing you to add 3 x DVB-T2 tuners (for PSB3, COM7 and COM8) That allows any channel to be viewed or recorded at any time with no clash, and as many Live TV clients to connect as you like (subject to network bandwidth) Because DVB tuning is a very lightweight CPU task, you can dedicate these duties to a lightweight x86 box (I use a Celeron 2955U-based box). Use the free My EyeTV service to connect to your home Mac via the internet. Stream live TV or your recordings to the big screen via AirPlay.
There is no need to reconfigure your local Wi-Fi network. Simply activate the option 'iPhone/iPad Sharing' in the EyeTV preferences. Now that DVB-T tuners are so ridiculously cheap (you can get Dual DVB-T tuners like the PS3 Play TV for around £10 on eBay) it is perfectly possible to have 3 x Dual DVB-T tuners so all 6 DVB-T muxes (PSB1 and 2, COM4,5 and6 and the Local Mux) are tuned simultaneously and all channels available simultaneously. EyeTV maker Elgato has long sold a nifty little USB 2. This removes the concept of the tuner from the PVR back-end. One problem I am having with Leia, which I had not with the previous Krypton build, is that my ElGato EyeTV DVB-T stick is not recognized anymore.
More details about the DVB-S2 version can be found on EyeTV Netstream 4Sat product page.TV Headend will record all of them! An alternative strategy is to virtualise your tuners using MuMuDVB to multicast (or unicast) every service on each mux - so all services on PSB1, say, are streamed simultaneously, and then you can add them to many PVR back-ends as IPTV streams. Using latest 'LibreELEC-X8-X8H.arm-LE9-Kodi18.1 > PC Monitor 1920/1080 - 50/60 hz. Geniatech is apparently behind the product, and Charbax interviewed the company has now developed DVB-T2 and ATSC versions, with Geniatech models going under the name NetTV Quad. I could not find actual reviews of the device however. At all.” to “Glorious quality satellite TV anywhere in the house”, the same is true for EyeTV Netstream app. NetStream 4Sat has been available in Europe since 2014, and is listed on Amazon UK for £142.00 ($204.50 US) with mixed reviews ranging from “not smooth” or “ Simply does not work.
It is also said to work with SAT>IP certified receivers.
Operating systems supported include Android, iOS, and Windows 7 or greater and Mac OS via EyeTV software. The networked tuner ships with an Ethernet cable, a power supply, and a Quick Start Guide.Īll you need is a satellite dish with digital universal LNB or DiSEqC multiswitch to connect to the 4 RF inputs, and a Gigabit router to stream videos from the DVB streamer to your devices and computers with up to 4 simultaneous users watching different channels.
Versions with DVB-T2 and ATSC will soon be available.
A few months ago, I wrote about TBS AMD Moi Pro streaming server supporting up to 16 tuners and mostly targeting businesses, but I’ve also found out there are some consumers solutions such as Elgato EyeTV NetStream 4Sat that includes four antenna inputs for your satellite dish (DVB-S2/S), and the ability to stream live TV to any devices, using hardware video transcoding if need be, for example to Android or iOS smartphones.