Raspberry Pi TV HAT Reviews

4.6 Rating 122 Reviews

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“Nice product and much more prefereable to having to use a usb device”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Got this put together on a Pi3. I get all the channels I would on my TV. Signal quality has been excellent on my ariel. I'm in a flat so have a shared ariel I expect it has a active splitter/amplifier at some point before it reaches my property. Installed Arch Linux, did basic setup like updates, user account, install networkmanager for wifi. Then I grabbed TVHeadend from the Arch Linux AUR. In its current state it successfully compiled on the raspberry pi without any fiddling with anything. After that I enabled and started the systemd service and off I go. Connected to the web interface. TVHeadend is a bit tricky to get working. To tune it i picked a generic mux preset and then ran a tune and deleted any muxes that received no services. Haven't managed to tune HD channels but who cares about that! I played around with it a bit by running streams from TVHeadend web interface in VLC. That works well but I wanted a more integrated software solution. Kodi seems to be the best way to go. If you install the TVHeadend htsp addon you can setup kodi with all the functionality you would expect with a real TV but working over the network connected to the PI. Its very cool! A must have Pi project if you like this sort of thing.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“The hat itself is great, but having a form factor suitable for a pi W is wrong. The pi W didn't have the memory to be able to record two standard definition programs at the same time (even running headless).”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Fitted this to a Pi 3 with TVHeadend and at first only 50 or so tv channels were picked up (from the Winter Hill transmitter) BUT I was using an aerial splitter and a cheap male-2-male cable. Once I put it at the earliest signal point everything worked. I then got a 4-way signal booster box to replace the splitter and some better connectors and all is good - 150+ channels. I've mounted it in a PiDrive box (with the drive) and the lid goes on with a bit of sawing out for the aerial. I'm just going to velcro it to the back of the TV. All of this was to get a networked TV signal up to the attic for the new Pi 4 to display to my AV/projector system - sadly Kodi has some serious problems which will take a few months to be ironed out. The Libreelec distribution works ok but I want more use out of the Pi 4 since it's more powerful than my 10-year-old HP box. If they ever produce a twin/quad tuner unit then I've got a serious backup for my Humax - I really like the customised software pack and you can't get that on the new models.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Works well with both dvb-t & dvb-t2 muxes. Is detected as standard adapter so fine with various software e.g. Tvheadend, sat ip etc.”

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Posted 5 years ago

“Must have HAT to watch TV from any device. My configuration is tvheadend and VLC”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I tried it out on a Pi3 and a Pi zero and on two TV transmitters. As a TV receiver, it's faultless, but the associated software needs a little work. High definition (DVB T2) doesn't work, although I believe it was OK with a previous version of tvheadend. On raspbian with a desktop on a Pi3 it couldn't record - a permission issue, but on a Pi zero headless setup it would record. For streaming broadcast TV to any device on the home network it's excellent. It even streamed to two devices at the same time (obviously the same channel).”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Everything works as it should. Using a Pi3 you can run Kodi and TVHeadend server on one device. When I tried it on a Pi 1, TVHeadend server would run but adding Kodi on top slowed everything to a crawl which is to be expected I suppose. The bolts that secure the pHAT board interfere with most cases. Either leave them off or modify the case.”

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Posted 6 years ago