Smart TV without aerial
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He wants an EPG front end. I.e. Tv guide, driving the apps behind. Problem is the EPGs are created by the TV signal stream.
Individual TV streaming apps don't seem concerned with providing and EPG even for their own content. Probably because they don't have a schedule for on demand content.
The only real solution is plug a smart TV (as they all are now) into an aerial and let the Freeview EPG drive the apps behind it, never watching live TV but always selecting programs that are in the past on the EPG. That still contravenes the TV license mind you, if that's the issue.
Individual TV streaming apps don't seem concerned with providing and EPG even for their own content. Probably because they don't have a schedule for on demand content.
The only real solution is plug a smart TV (as they all are now) into an aerial and let the Freeview EPG drive the apps behind it, never watching live TV but always selecting programs that are in the past on the EPG. That still contravenes the TV license mind you, if that's the issue.
Edited by Griffith4ever on Saturday 22 April 08:05
EdT said:
Is annoying as the kitchen is pretty much the only room that the house builders didn't put an aerial socket into. Are any mobile aerials worth a punt? (Tried a £20 one a while ago with zero benefit)
If the only issue is that there is no aerial in the place where you want to put the TV, simple solution is to get something like a HDHomerun box that is basically a dual or quad Freeview tuner with an ethernet connection. It comes with clients for almost all popular computer and mobile OSes out there (AndroidTV/GoogleTV recognises it as a TV tuner out of the box and Plex recognises it too) so you just place it in a room with an aerial and an ethernet connection to your home network. The app gives you an EPG type experience (as will native AndroidTV) and its pretty seamless.Basic model is dual tuner so you can watch one channel and record another or two people can watch different channels on two devices at the same time. There's more expensive quad model for 4 channels at once.
WonkeyDonkey said:
Captain_Morgan said:
WonkeyDonkey said:
If you're prepared to go the illegal route then tivimate+IPTV subscription does this beautifully.
Its also a absolutely wonderful way of compromising your home network too.Timothy Bucktu said:
I think the question is more of an 'if there a solution my Wife could use without complaining' - to which, the answer is no.
Yeah this is my quandry too, we want to get rid of Sky but the second TV has no aerial near it, I have been looking for a solution similar to the OP. No joy yet though 
Could go the dumb route, just get a ridiculously long cable, drill holes to thread it through walls, clip it to the skirting board? I’ve done this a few times, with a splitter at the aerial entry point. Still got my 10m long tv cable kicking round somewhere lol. Moved into a new build with jacks in every room and retired it though.
Edited by wyson on Thursday 27th April 11:09
geeks said:
Timothy Bucktu said:
I think the question is more of an 'if there a solution my Wife could use without complaining' - to which, the answer is no.
Yeah this is my quandry too, we want to get rid of Sky but the second TV has no aerial near it, I have been looking for a solution similar to the OP. No joy yet though wyson said:
Could go the dumb route, just get a ridiculously long cable, drill holes to thread it through walls, clip it to the skirting board? I’ve done this a few times, with a splitter at the aerial entry point. Still got my 10m long tv cable kicking round somewhere lol. Moved into a new build with jacks in every room and retired it though.
That's very true, aerial cables can be routed most places.Edited by wyson on Thursday 27th April 11:09
Try an indoor aerial?
If there's an amplifier in an aerial splitter, you might get away with thinner coax cable which can be run more discreetly?
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