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| javeryh:
Is that Amazon antenna good enough to work about 12 miles outside of NYC? I got rid of cable back around February and haven't missed it at all but football games are a pain to watch so I'd love an over the air solution. No idea how to install it though... |
| BadMouth:
--- Quote from: javeryh on November 15, 2020, 12:27:33 pm ---Is that Amazon antenna good enough to work about 12 miles outside of NYC? I got rid of cable back around February and haven't missed it at all but football games are a pain to watch so I'd love an over the air solution. No idea how to install it though... --- End quote --- 12 miles? Go buy a $10 set of rabbit ears. Seriously. If you want to buy something more substantial, get a clearstream 1. Just don't buy one of those cheap flat antennas. Good lord you'll probably get an absurd number of stations that close to NYC. EDIT: on second thought, look at some of the diy antenna tutorials and see if you have most of the parts for any of them laying around. |
| newmanfamilyvlogs:
To elaborate on my experience with OTA on Plex; I picked up a WinTV-quadHD (https://hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_quadhd.html) maybe a little over a year ago. It installed in my OpenMediaServer based Plex server with no setup (yay Linux) and was immediately seen within Plex. It presents itself to the system as two cards each with two tuners, though I'm not sure what difference that makes. My particular antenna/geographic combination nets me around 16 channels, all mostly unwatchable, and so as such I haven't actually used it a tremendous amount, however for when I have watched it, it's worked well. I've successfully streamed an incoming program to a web browser locally on the network, amazon fire sticks and fire cubes. It's also worked well remotely over my 10Mbit upload streaming to a browser remotely and also an Android phone. I did some volunteer work at the local PBS affiliate working on a live show (at least until Covid changed the way production worked). There was some transmission anomaly during one show, and having an additional way to quickly pull up what the received OTA signal looked like at a distance from the station was neat. Recording shows is as easy as selecting them on the programming grid and clicking record once, every time, only new episodes, etc. It saves files in the raw transport stream of the OTA broadcast, so the files are quite a bit larger than they really need to be. On Linux there's probably some fancy shell script that could be configured to sweep and re-encode files periodically. There might even be a Plex plugin which would do the same. Since it's the raw transport stream, close caption information is recorded as-is from OTA, for better or worse. This is potentially amusing for live broadcasts where the captions are occasionally corrected on the fly. My biggest complaint is that additional channels which do not have programming guide information (such as continuous loop doppler radar) are not viewable within Plex. The receiver sees them, but without a programming 'slot' to assign to them, they remain disabled. Overall in my experience the Plex solution is very much a DIY implementation. It appeals to my desire to tinker, and while the end-user experience is pretty good, it's not as bullet proof as a dedicated bit of hardware. |
| mameotron:
I don't understand anything anyone said in this thread regarding antennas and stuff. I moved into my new house 4 years ago and there was an old school pointy antenna thing in the attic. I hooked it up to my TV and I get all four network "streams" (4-6 channels per network) plus 2 separate PBS stations, plus some random other channels that come and go. It works great for me, I never even considered getting cable. Well, mostly because out in the sticks wherre I live, there is no cable. But I digress. |
| DaOld Man:
Just to update, I have been using the IP channels on my smart TV (lots of old TV shows and movies free through the internet), and I downloaded Pluto on my firestick and get a bunch more free channels. I am putting the antenna on the back burner for awhile, but may still buy a cheap one to see if I can get any decent channels (signal strength wise). I havent cut the cable yet, its like drugs, very hard to get away from. But I need to. |
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