Raspberry Pi TV HAT Reviews

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“Brilliant. Used it to create a sort of wireless DVR that works really well.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Works very well, finds all the tv channels I can find on my freeview box.”

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Posted 3 years ago

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Posted 3 years ago

“After few issues with delivery I have managed to get my goods. The support team was really helpful and kind to listen at my complains and they have re-shipped my order for the second time with no extra costs on my side. Definitely a great customer service, highly recommended”

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Posted 3 years ago

“The hat works really well on zero 2 for streaming to vlc. Tried on a 3b+ also good for streaming to VLC. Looking at CPU usage should also stream from an original zero w or one with lan hat. Using the onboard player via web interface on remote laptop from tvheadend is not a great xp as it tries to encode the TS format and obviously won't have enough grunt to do that real time. That said if you get the link from the guide, copy that and paste into VLC and on home/more go to add sreams and past link ther it plasys SD and HD flawlessly. Fine to tablets and windows pc. Windows Media player is not the best to use zo stick with VLC. Setup is simple. I used pizero2 +sandisk extreme 128GB. Installed the standard pi lite os at 0.4GB (no GUI, as it adds to much overhead load). Changed default passwords and user, enabled ssh. Installed fail2ban and ufw for a bit of security, can do without if you feel okay without. Installed TV headend. Ran TVheadend, followed setup then on to tuning, yep nothing. Mo MUX. Some checking and found out that the default MUX list is wrong. I am uk winter hill, default tuning freqs are not correct. Went to uk feeveiw websites got correct params added MUX and set all params to auto. Found MUX and that allowed me to map channels and stream to VLC. One thing though you might need to add the tuner MUX to tv adapters as mine dropped that. After that all worked i added HD channels al much the same. All good. So i don't yet have a pi4 to try streaming via the tv headend instead of using vlc, but i speculate that will also have the horsepower to deliver that way. I also understand that Kodi and LibreELEC do a better job, again really need a oi4 for latest distros. I am happy with streaming to VLC so i can use lower power devices (yay i used to live on MCU's and arduino, so any pi is a lux in terms of resources) to do that, and if its on 24/7 will reduce energy consumption.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Installation and integration easy with OSMC”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Easy to install and configure.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Raspberry Pi TV HAT arrived with all required components. Next step is to get it assembled by following instructions as shown in the Pi Hut tutorial Looking forward to test it out once assembled.”

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Posted 4 years ago