Cord-cutters, need some advice

[MTG#10]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

HDHOMERUN

https://www.silicondust.com/

I use it with FireTVs, and as long as your wireless is strong enough, or you use a hard wired connection, it works pretty darn well.

So the coax from my antenna would run to this device, then this would broadcast my OTA channels to a FireTV? I was kind of hoping there was a way to broadcast from my tuner card, I have to use it so I can pick up channels on my giant monitor in my bedroom. I guess I could put a splitter at my PC and run one coax to my tuner card and the other to this device.

[Chief Pagan]

For Windows 7 with Media player, I did what you are talking about. The coax OTA came into a pc in the living room that had a tuner. Just by setting up a home network, I could watch the OTA channels from my bedroom. The living room pc decoded the signal and using the home network I could watch from the bedroom using the wireless router.

Windows media player let me choose channels and everything from the bedroom pc.

I haven't tried it with Windows 10. Microsoft probably killed that, because Microsoft.

[MTG#10]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

For Windows 7 with Media player, I did what you are talking about. The coax OTA came into a pc in the living room that had a tuner. Just by setting up a home network, I could watch the OTA channels from my bedroom. The living room pc decoded the signal and using the home network I could watch from the bedroom using the wireless router.

Windows media player let me choose channels and everything from the bedroom pc.

I haven't tried it with Windows 10. Microsoft probably killed that, because Microsoft.

I dont have a PC connected to my downstairs TV. I was hoping maybe there would be a way to cast OTA channels from my tuner card to a Chromecast or FireTV or something

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by Chief Pagan

For Windows 7 with Media player, I did what you are talking about. The coax OTA came into a pc in the living room that had a tuner. Just by setting up a home network, I could watch the OTA channels from my bedroom. The living room pc decoded the signal and using the home network I could watch from the bedroom using the wireless router.

Windows media player let me choose channels and everything from the bedroom pc.

I haven't tried it with Windows 10. Microsoft probably killed that, because Microsoft.

They nuked WMC, so probably doesn't work any longer.

[lawrenceRaider]

Originally Posted by MTG#10

So the coax from my antenna would run to this device, then this would broadcast my OTA channels to a FireTV? I was kind of hoping there was a way to broadcast from my tuner card, I have to use it so I can pick up channels on my giant monitor in my bedroom. I guess I could put a splitter at my PC and run one coax to my tuner card and the other to this device.

The HDHomeRun is hooked to your router, and then you can access the channels from pretty much any device in your house. FireTV, your phone, tablet, PC, all of it.

[MTG#10]

Originally Posted by lawrenceRaider

The HDHomeRun is hooked to your router, and then you can access the channels from pretty much any device in your house. FireTV, your phone, tablet, PC, all of it.

Looks like it doesn't work with Chromecast though. Bummer, all of my TV's in my house have one.