Raspberry Pi TV HAT Reviews

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“Awesome board, really small footprint. Does not break the wallet. Fantastic support and documentation. Another winner.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Does what it says on the tin!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“What a great little add-on for the Pi! I'd been struggling for ages with another tuner and, given my limited Linux knowledge had pretty much given up. So when I saw this advertised at only £20, I thought I'd give it a go, and it just worked! No firmware upgrade required, just assemble it onto your Pi and plug in the aerial. I did experiment a bit between Raspbian & Mini Raspbian, before finally settling on LibreELEC with TVHeadend server. I used a standard Pi plastic case with a 10mm well positioned hole drilled for the coax aerial connection and added a 128Gb SanDisk Ultrafit mini SD card for saving recorded programmes. I built it for my elderly Dad, so it sits on the floor in the corner of the room quiet happily, totally silently with no screen, keyboard or mouse and is accessed over the network by Kodi running on Windows 10 for setting the timer & watching recordings. Also works from the iPad with TvhClient. A brilliant PVR solution for exactly £100 (Pi, tuner, 16Gb boot micro SD, 128Gb mini USB, case & PSU). Highly recommended!”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Excellent product. It fitted inside my case after a little bit of work to fit the antenna adapter.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I followed the instructions and installed the necessary software, no problems there. Installed the Hat, unfortunatly upside down - my fault, a bit of a struggle to remove it and put it on correctly. Turned on connected an arial, Tuned it in and it worked first time. I am not entirely happy with internet TV despite the Pi 3b being connected to a wired network the reception stutters. I have used it to record TV and that works a treat.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Great piece of kit.very easy to setup, After following the instruction on how to setup with a pi zero,I had mine running in 5mins.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I purchased this HAT mainly because I didn't have the facility on my Freeview HD TV to pause, rewind or record, so I thought I would give this new TV HAT a go. I honestly wasn't expecting it to be anywhere near as good as it's turned out to be. It was so simple to setup on my Pi 3B+, I was up and running, streaming to KODI on 2 other Pi's in no time at all. The biggest surprise for me has been the quality of the TV picture. I am lucky as I live close to the Winter Hill transmitter. I never have issues with signal strength on the built in tuner on my Freeview HD TV. The HD on the TVs tuner is crisp and bright but the SD TV has always a little blurred with soft, fluffy edges. By comparison the SD on the Pi HAT is much sharper and cleaner. It's almost as good as the TV's HD! I am really not exaggerating here. The HD on the Pi HAT is tremendous. It put's the inbuilt TVs HD to shame. It's made me realise just how good Freeview HD is, considering it is subscription free. There is also the added bonus of being able to pause and rewind TV and to schedule recordings. I can't recommend this HAT highly enough. It's a very reasonable price, I am tempted to buy another, to have the facility to record two things at the same time. The only small downside was that the connector for the aerial socket popped out a couple of times. I managed to fix this by shortening the aerial to the pi, so there was less strain. I take my HAT off to the Pi Foundation for adding another dimension to the Pi. What other little surprises like this one are round the corner? I can't wait!”