[ale] cord cutting for TV, SiliconDust, MythTV, recording to PC, etc.,

[Jim Kinney]

There's stuff on TV worth watching?

OK, Archer.

On Apr 9, 2017 4:32 PM, "Pete Hardie" <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rather serendipitously, I am looking again at getting off my ass and
> making a DVR solution that is not at the mercy of custom hardware.
> My 3rd ReplayTV appears to be dying (power supply or motherboard - I've
> already done a disk replacement), and I'm tired of the dance to get those
> boxes working.
>
> I'm not looking to cut the cord so much as break free from the tyranny of
> the schedule.
>
> Has anyone seen a good reference for getting an RPi to record OTA or from
> a cable box?
>
> On Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 4:06 PM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 09 April 2017, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> > Antennas are like real estate - location, location, location. If you are
>> > in a valley without line of sight to the transmission towers,
>> > forgetaboutit. Keep paying dish/cable guys and move on with your life
>> ...
>> > or put up a high pole with an antenna facing the correct direction.
>> TVfool
>> > can let you try out different ground heights to see how much it matters.
>> >  10 ft higher DOES MATTER.
>>
>> Thanks for the link! Sadly I am in a valley and even with an ~37' out side
>> antenna all Atlanta stations are shown as "Edge" at TVfool. Actually get
>> most of them well enough except channel two which fades out at times.
>> Played
>> with virtually running my antenna up to 60' with none improving to line of
>> site.
>>
>> BTW channel 14 may be based in Rome but they broadcast from near Waleska.
>> Still probably the most distant station for many, but my closest and only
>> line of site station.
>> --
>> William
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