“Having only one aerial into the house in the living room I was looking at an IPTV solution to have Freeview in every room. So I have paired up the TV hat with an old Pi 2 and use tvheadend software and an aerial splitter next to my TV. Construction was a doddle and the steps in the guide for installing tvheadend worked first time. tvheadend has one issue, the muxes information (UHF channel numbers and frequencies) for my local transmitter was way out of date (they are being moved to make way for 5G), but a visit to http://www.digitaluk.co.uk provided an up to date list. For the client end I used VLC on my Windows PC, but their Android version is a bit limited so I downloaded and used an app called simply IPTV which works great on my Asus Tablet and Galaxy S8 phone. All in all a 2-3 hour project but I now have Freeview available everywhere in the house. It's a great use for a Pi and I've recommended this solution to others.”
“Really pleased with this. I use Tvheadend running on a Raspberry Pi as my sole source of TV in the house. I used to use a USB tuner which used to frequently overhead and stop working. I've had no issues with this one at all - well worth the money.”
“Works great. I use it mainly as a DVR. Just be careful - don't do what I did and try to run it without the spacers in there...if you do, when you push the two boards together the the antenna connector will snap your micro SD card! Oops.”
“I can honestly say that this is the easiest project I have ever had to set up on the Raspberry Pi. Attach it to the Pi, power up, follow the instruction and you've got broadcast TV streaming throughout your network. Love it”
