Sillicon Dust brings live channels to Android TV

by warmaster

Sillicon Dust devices are already working with Android TV.

More info on their forums

Pics here

nerdyintentions

FYI to anyone thinking about getting a Nexus Player to do this: The Nexus Player does not currently support hardware MPEG2 decoding. Right now, that means that you will not be able to use this app with a non-transcoding HDHomeRun (any model that isn't the HDHR Plus/Extend). Its not clear whether the Nexus Player will ever support the non-transcoding tuners within the Live TV app. However, you can use the HDHomeRun View android app but the interface is slow and clunky on Android TV (not nearly as nice as the Live TV app).

Cozmo85

We use this on our ADT1

xamadeix

Don't you need a tv tuner card for this?

jtenniswood

Very cool, I wish they made a free view (dvb-t2) version for outside the US. Hopefully others will add support and even DVR capabilities.

thingfromspace

I got a HDHR plus a couple of weeks back because it claimed to support HD streams to mobile devices, which I assumed meant HD streams over wifi and by extension to my Nexus Player. I could not for the life of me get anything near HD over 802.11n in even near perfect conditions (ie. right next to the router). I know my network can handle at least something HD because I can stream Netflix in "HD" (which looks far better than the pixilated attempt the HDHR was providing). I can also stream 1080p MKV to XBMC on my NP with beautiful results. This frustrated me to no end and I took the thing back.

On a plus side, I thought the TV tuner app from Google was pretty nifty and got me really excited for what could be possible.

Now I just need to find a decent ATSC tuner that can effortlessly stream HD over wifi without paying for a service subscription (ie simple.tv).

jtenniswood

What's really strange is that there aren't any hdhomerun devices on sale, I hope the bring some new devices that support dvb-t2.