I was looking around at new "TVs". At one store, I looked at filtering categories and saw "tuner". There are only 5 "TVs" with a tuner. FIVE out of 126!
Now Sonny, back in my day, a "TV" was a monitor with a tuner and speakers. A "Monitor" did not have a tuner, speakers are optional.
I have not used an actual tuner on a television since 2000 (my cable tuner was on my TiVo, until I cut the cord 2 years ago) but I have yet to buy a TV without one!\
EDIT: Just looked again... They have a "non-smart" category! Awesome, because I like the external box. Sigh, only 2 tiny TVs with no "smart" features. How dumb.
We have Samsung Smart TVs in the house an I'd like to connect an outdoor antenna to my router and from there, stream the OTA to smart TVs. I'm looking to do this without an app set up on the smart TV or an external tuner (since the TVs have tuners already built internally in them). My father is elderly and I'd like to have him be able to just turn on the TV and the channels are there (which happens when I hardwire an antenna). But it seems like for me to deliver the antenna feed to each tv, I would either need to hardwire each, or purchase an external tuner that then requires an app. Is there no antenna out there I could connect to a router and then have each tv with a dongle (like an Amazon Fire Stick or Google Chromecast) to receive the OTA broadcasts to each TV?
Almost all videos of people connecting their Game Gears through the TV Tuner to a modern console is through the awful screen of Game Gear. Really curious how it looks on the razor sharp screen of Pocket. Let’s see who will be the first to upload a video of thus 😁
Heya folks.
I've always had issues with my TV tuner since using comcast a few years ago and I've called them but they're really simply no help. I posted about this some time back, but in short, the tuner will disconnect from a channel after x period of time whether I'm reocrding or not. This is usually 3-4 hours and I assume this is to save them bandwidth as they don't think I'm watching the show even though the Tivo is recording. The result is, if I record a 6 hour block of tennis, the recording will only be 2 hours long and the remaining will be blank.
To counter this, I started doing manually recordings with overlapping times, so 2 tuners are tuned it and tricks Spectrum into thinking it's"active". This has ALWAYS worked until as of late. Of late, I'll get V53 error but I can see the picture OR mostly, the recording is simply blank and then deletes itself as it didn't have a picture. To resolve this, I have to restart the Tivo AND unplug my TV tuner. If I just unplug the TV tuner, the TV tuner never comes back online. This only happens on Switch Digital Video channels.
Anyone have any recommendations for me? I'm honestly just waiting for my Tivo to die as I've had this Roamio I think for 7+ years but I'd like to keep it going while I can. Thanks!
Edit** Old thread for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/Tivo/comments/nwtyhf/cable_co_drops_tuner_after_a_few_hours_may_switch/
Does anyone know of the cheapest tv tuner that works with plex dvr and unraid docker in the UK?
Ideally something with at least two separate tuners would be nice. (or i guess i could buy two single ones if thats cheaper?)
Reccomendations?
Thanks
Gershy13
I would like to set up Plex DVR on my Synology, but I have learned that DSM7 has made USB dongles unavailable. Is there a workaround?
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So our other TVs get channels just by plugging the coaxial in it but this tv doesn't have a tuner will this fix my issue?
I am using Emby as my video service on my server which runs Ubuntu 20.04 and I am wanting to use Emby for the live TV DVR function and I am looking for tuners to use. Based on Emby the easiest set up option is using the Homerun Flex Duo which seems nice but for id rather use a PCI slot for less cable clutter and use a Hauppauge TV Tuner but it seems like it only supports Windows and not linux since I need WinTV to run it.
Are these my only options for Emby with Linux? Or are there other alternatives I can use?
Weighing my options for my household.
Hallo,
Ich habe unsere Freunde bei der GIS gefragt ob ich den TV tuner selbst ausbauen darf, um das Fernsehgerät zu einem Bildschirm umzufunktionieren und so der GIS zu entgehen.
Die Antwort: Nein, das muss durch einen Fachbetrieb bestätigt werden.
Ich bin kein Rechtswissenschaftler, aber dazu finde ich die Grundlage im Gesetzestext nicht.
Was würdet ihr sagen. Selbst ausbauen und die GIS Abmelden oder die kosten schlucken und einen Fachbetrieb beauftragen?
My Toshiba "dumb" TV went tits up yesterday (sound works, backlight works, no picture) so I guess it's time for a replacement. Looking in the 60-80" range.
What I'm looking for:
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Preferably another "dumb" TV. Only internet I have is tethering so if it's a smart TV, it has to work without wifi.
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The best possible built in tuner. I've noticed that brands are vastly different in their ability to pull in stations.
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A decent interface that shows TV show information, and preferably a guide that will pull all the OTA schedule info and populate it in one place (current broken TV you have to tune to the station to see current and next show).
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Under $1000. Preferably under $500, but will pay more for quality and longevity.
Would love to hear any suggestions!
Hello everybody. I'm trying to set up a TV Tuner with BT8** Driver, but it doesn't show up. Is there any way to make it work. Chip: Conexant Fusion 878A Tuner: LG TPI8PSB12P I'd really appreciate if somebody helped!
I've previously managed to get this working on Proxmox6 so I know it's possible. I did a fresh Proxmox 7 install and can't get it to work.
Running 7.0-13 (latest) Have a plex container running Ubuntu 20.04 that needs to be able to see the TV Tuner in the host machine.
- Done all the IOMMU stuff
- Host and container can see PCIe device
- Installed device firmware to /lib/firmware
- Updated container config with cgroup2 change (per migration checklist from Proxmox 6to7)
- Plex still can't see TV tuner card
If I try w_scan on the host it has no problems. When I try w_scan on the guest is goes nowhere. This makes me think it's a passthrough problem, but when I try lspci -v on the host and guest it looks okay.
Any ideas? I'm not highly proficient in Linux so a bit stuck. The container config is as follows:
Arch: amd64
cores: 2
features: nesting=1
hostname: plex
hostpci0: 03:00.0,pcie=1
hostpci1: 04:00.0,pcie=1
machine: q35
memory: 2048
mp0: /mnt/rackstation/media,mp=/mnt/media
mp1: /mnt/rackstation/other,mp=/mnt/other
net0: name=eth0,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1,gw=192.168.1.147,hwaddr=2A:2F:F1:AD:4C:77,ip=192.168.1.7/24,type=veth
onboot: 1
ostype: ubuntu
rootfs: local-lvm:vm-102-disk-0,size=8G
startup: order=1
swap: 2048
unprivileged: 1
lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow: c 212:* rwm
lxc.mount.entry: /dev/dvb /dev/dvb none bind,create=dir 0 0
Has any one had luck getting Shaw TV channels on a HDHomerun or similar device?
Has anyone developed drivers or app software to use the volar tv tuner on Linux, Mac OS, or Raspberry Pi? It’s working pretty well on Windows 11, though I wish there was a way to rescan for additional channels without wiping out the current list. I get 2 sets depending on where the antenna is pointing.
I've got a couple TV Tuners and they dont work. I cant locate anyone selling a kit for it. Is there a site that sells them or can anyone point me in the direction of piecing together the caps needed? I've always bought kits for my system repairs but not sure where to get them individually.
I’d like to have something like this available for emergency use. If the power goes out for an extended time, I’d like to be able to play my Blu Ray/DVD collection and tune into local channels. I’ve seen this exact thing for DVDs but not for Blue Rays.
Recently I had been using Locast to stream local TV channels online because my TV reception seemed spotty, and Locast was inexpensive. Unfortunately, Locast recently had to shut down due to a lawsuit, so that option is now gone. I don't really watch enough TV for a premium TV package to be worth it, so recently I've been looking for ways to improve my over-the-air TV reception, with various antennas or other solutions.
TL;DR: I've recently tried a couple of streaming TV tuner solutions which work fairly well. I think this is cool stuff.
I have a TV that wasn't getting one channel at all, which airs a show I sometimes like to watch (Jeopardy). Recently I read that the tuner in a TV can also be part of the problem, as some tuners are better than others. I had read that TVs made after 2015 seem to have better tuners, and that particular TV I have was one I bought in 2015.
So, I recently bought a Tablo quad-tuner OTA streamer/DVR. I've tried it with a couple antennas I have, and it does a much better job of picking up the local TV stations than my TV did. I'm actually surprised at how much better it works. Still, a station is occasionally glitchy and sometimes it sometimes says a station's signal is too weak to show, but it has been working much better than my TV's tuner. And I like that it can stream to my devices on my network. You can also plug in a hard drive and use it as a DVR if you want. That one sells for about $200. Tablo also makes one with a HDMI output (a little more expensive) so you can plug it directly into a TV if you want.
It seems I live only about 4-5 miles from the major TV broadcast antennas, so I'd think I shouldn't need a particularly fancy antenna. I'm currently using the tuner with an Antennas Direct ClearStream TV antenna, without an amplifier (but with a LTE filter) and it has been working fairly well.
I also have a Plex media server, and I had paid for a lifetime Plex Pass membership which offers some additional features, such as live OTA streaming and DVR. When I bought the Tablo, I wasn't totally confident in how well it would work, so I also bought a [Hauppauge PCI Expres
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