[Kryspy]

Hi,

I am in the process of deciding to ditch my satellite provider here in Canada and set up an OTA HTPC setup.

Is Live tv with a full epg at an acceptable level now a days to pass the wife acceptance factor? Is it relatively stable.

I have no problems with basic LINUX set up and Windows of course.

Any recent screencaps of VDR in action with EPG?

Kryspy

[rdoac]

It should work OTA without many problems. You'll need the atscepg plugin to do a channel scan with the right little twiddly bits to pull in the epg. Then it should work out of the box (as they say) as long as you use a VDR version 1.7.16 or greater.

Getting it to work with XBMC/Pvr is pretty straight forward once VDR is working as you want. Get it working with xineliboutput and vdpau then try xbmc..

[Kryspy]

Do I need to run the backend on another PC or does VDR run on the same client PC as XBMC does. I ask because I am running unRAID as my fileserver and don't really want o set up a second box or resort to a Windows server or Linux server.

Ideally I'd just use HDHomeruns for recording which are network tuners anyways.


Kryspy

[rdoac]

I think there is a HDHomerun plugin but am not 100% sure. Yes, it'll run happily on the same machine..

[opdenkamp]

there's no hdhomerun pvr addon (yet).
the backend can be on any machine, as long as you have a network connection that is fast enough.

[rdoac]

I can't see much point in putting homerun support into xbmc. It needs to be connected at the backend level. A homerun is essentially a network tuner, not a set top box (like an Enigma2 box). It has no storage for recordings etc..

[Schumi]

I like hdhomerun idea but it doesnt support dvb-s2