“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.”
“Attached mine to a RasPi3B+ and had it running as a source for a Plex server in less than an hour just by following the tutorial here. I fitted mine to a standard Raspberry Pi Official Case with a little bit of dremmelling to allow the ariel connection out. Very good value and very easy to set up.”
“I bought and installed the HAT because I wanted to see how good a TV server would work. Delivery was very fast and everything went smoothly until I tried to scan the aether using TVHeadend. No signal at any channel seemed unrealistic, so I tried w_scan and saw quite services. A small research revealed that the channel list for Germany covers only DVB-T, which was switched off already. I then fetched a new list from the Internet and since then it's working as a charm.
Unfortunately many of the channels are encrypted...”
