“The hardware aspect of the TV Hat was very easy to attach to my Pi.
It has taken me about a week to get the software (TV Head End) to pick up all the channels from my local transmitter, but I've learned stuff along the way about Digital TV and Raspbian.”
“Decided to purchase one of these to use with a pi zero w that I had sitting around unused. Unfortunately I had forgotten that this older version of the pi zero does not have a soldered header, but The Pi Hut came up trumps with the GPIO Hammer Header (Solderless). The Hat is very easy to get working with the instructions from this web site. I now have UK digital TV + PVR in all rooms in the house on Android devices using apps TVHClient and VLC.
Awesome :-)”
“Perfectly works with Pi 3 and Zero W, but I need a good instruction how to use hardware H 264 transcoding with Tvheadend to be able to view TV over Internet. I successfully did HW transcoding with standalone gstreamer and ffmpeg, but it didn’t work with Tvheadend. Really hope that Raspberry gurus publish this solution soon.”
“Great piece of kit used along with LibreElec gives really impressive quality digital TV I used the guide to install tvheadend and after confusing myself between PVR client and PVR server I got it working I am using a pi 2 just because I have one although I have a pi 3b + and originally set it up on that but I found the picture stuttering quite bad so I decided to install it on my pi 2 as a media center have to thank the pi hut for speedy delivery great stuff would recommend it as first class
Robin Dow.”
“Works well but, like all these things, you need a good strong signal to start or you won't be happy. If you can't already pick up all the channels you want, perfectly, with the aerial you intend to use, then this won't either.
Shame that the RPi 3 doesn't have enough power to transcode (so you can't watch live-on-the-web), but tvHeadend can stream all your DVB-T channels quite happily to something that can decode them (e.g. VLC or the tvHeadend client apps) even when you're doing other things, and watching TV on the Pi itself should be fine.
The board design is odd and very "overhangy", but it is a simple-to-use, powered DVB-T board independent of the USB bus.
It's a nice addition, and quite cheap for what it does, and it does what you'd expect. They really should've taken the opportunity to put an IR-receiver TSOP or something on it at the same time, though.”
