I haven’t tried these devices but he does decent reviews on them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LO7h1YIMv4 for $30 stand alone OTA DVR (needs a disk) this might work ok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-506suSNz7c reviews the Tablo Quad over 2 months use. Needs a disk drive too. It will stream to your home devices. Thank you, Brian Webster www.wirelessmapping.com From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] On Behalf Of Bill Prince Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 1:43 PM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT OTA receivers The Channel Master works a lot like Tivo w/o a subscription. You can record a program based on name, and have it repeat whenever it sees that name. It's not as smart as Tivo, as when the right program appears on a different channel, it won't record it. It does distinguish between "new" and "rerun", but that is somewhat hit and miss. The program guide is very good, except when the stations /networks don't cooperate. For example, occasionally our local ABC, Channel 7 will go from a 2-week schedule to a 12 hour schedule. As the thing looks for a matching program name a couple of times a day, it will miss prime time for that day. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 5/18/2020 10:10 AM, Mathew Howard wrote: I think Tablo is somewhat crippled beyond just a 1-day program guide without the subscription... like it didn't let you schedule recordings at all, or something like that. On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM Bill Prince <part15...@gmail.com> wrote: Tablo has a 1-day program guide without subscription. The Channel Master has a 2 week program guide (and a search function), but is not a network recorder. I think the capability to be a network recorder is in the Channel Master, but they've never exploited it. bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 5/18/2020 9:55 AM, Mathew Howard wrote: If I remember correctly, Tablo has a subscription fee... last I looked the Amazon thing looked the most promising for a multi-tv system. I have an AirTV and an AirTV player (although I'm not sure if they still make that or not). The airtv obviously has some problems... the AirTV Player has the same interface, but it's not a networked tuner (it's basically just an AndroidTV box with a USB tuner) and it seems a lot more reliable, and it can pause live TV. On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 11:43 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote: I will wait for someone else to try Tablo and report to us. From: Bill Prince Sent: Monday, May 18, 2020 9:01 AM To: af@af.afmug.com Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT OTA receivers Lewis, your "Amazon OTA DVR", is that the FireTV you're talking about? Has anyone looked at the Tablo? It looks like it has 4 tuners, and is described as a "whole house DVR". It has no HDMI; presumably you need a smart TV or some other thing to stream things over the local LAN. It does require an external drive, but does not require a subscription (unless you want to stream from off-site). It also says it has "automatic commercial skip". bp <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com> On 5/18/2020 5:24 AM, Lewis Bergman wrote: I have several Channel Masters with the external drive. Probably what Walmart sells rebranded or something. Send me your address and I'll ship you one. It has a smart TV app. In the end I think it was that it was a per display thing we replaced them for. I have 4 of these I don't use. I want to say they were maybe $95 each, then add the external SSD of whatever size added another $85 or so. We use Aamazon Alexa to a great extent and have liked the Amazon OTA DVR. Having said that, it seems to require rebooting about every 6 weeks when the streaming locks up. I should get a simple timer device to reboot it at 4AM. Other than that, I like the whole thing and its integration to Amazon Prime is handy if you already use that. It is simple enough for the wife to use, which counts for a lot. On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 11:59 PM Trey Scarborough <t...@3dsc.co> wrote: I have used HDhomerun for years now you can run the recording software on a PC or it integrates with most DVR platforms MythTV, Plex, Kodi, etc. On 5/17/2020 7:39 PM, ch...@wbmfg.com wrote: I had the tivo for quite some time until it quit working and I didn’t want to spend the money for another one. I switched to airTV and then converted it to Sling. It is buggy. Does not always record what you tell it to, it will not allow fast forward on local channels and the audio level is much higher than all my other hdmi inputs like Roku. So looking again for an ATA receiver. Walmart has a really low cost unit that can record if you connect an external drive. It allows time shift etc. Does not stream over you network, you will have to have it connected to your display. And you will have to feed it an RF TV signal. But the whole streaming over the network by Tivo and Sling/AirTV has not exactly been flawless. 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