“I am using a couple of these HATs to build a PVR, using Tvheadend and Kodi. So far things are working well. I have had no problem with the TV reception, despite my initial concerns that there may be problems with the sensitivity.”
“I've used a number of PCTV USB dongles and they never really work properly on the Pi (and no longer supported for my NAS). This hat worked perfectly first time. Very pleased - a multichannel version would be welcome”
“No clues as to diagnostics to check the device.
When added to Pi3B, it worked with TVHeadEnd once I had got a working aerial, but I had to try it first with RaspBian, and then with OSMC to get things working.”
“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.”
“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).”
