Started with HDHomerun - what's a good next step?

by dave1253

I've come a long way on my cordcutting adventure. Here's where I am so far:

Installed HDHomerun Prime with a cable card - now I can watch cable tv using Nexus Players instead of paying for cable boxes. Streaming is working great wirelessly with an AC router for most things (except for golf - ball jerks across the putting green, and the text scrolling the scores at the bottom of The Golf Channel is too jumpy).

Watching everything else including baseball and football is quite good. I have yet to test out wired performance (haven't got the OTG Ethernet adapter yet).

Also have Netflix, Kodi and Hulu+. Re: Kodi - what addons do you find you can't live without? Seems like most content is lo-def.

So what would be a good next step?

What other apps would you recommend?

Also, is there a path to setting up a DVR?

Ariakkas10

You're gonna have a much better experience with a wire

Most(all?) of the kodi stuff is low def, for sure.

Silicon dust is working on a DVR for the hdhomerun. They plan a general release in early December.

ryantiger658

I would recommend emby if you want to setup dvr functionality. It is a great piece of software!

elister

If you have Comcast and they are still using MPEG2 for Live TV, then its probably not the WiFi thats causing the stuttering, but the lack of a hardware MPEG2 decoder.

As far as I know, only the Raspberry Pi and WDTV Live have hardware decoders for this. I have a HDHomerun Prime, streaming out to 3 Raspberry Pi2s. The original Pi would barely work, but mostly due to a slow single CPU. On a Minix X5 Mini (dual core media tek cpu?) it would only work in SD mode.

Silicon Dust is about to release a Video Add-On for Kodi/XBMC for DVR functionality. Not sure how much this will cost, but it should be released by mid to late November.

trinipirate

I went all the way cutting the cord. Then I got Sling TV (mostly for ESPN) I use an antenna for local and run it through live channels and hdhomerun. Then I use Genesis on Kodi for all my shows and movies. This allowed me to really cut the cord because we always DVR'd our shows anyway and never watched it live. I only need sports to be live and I got that covered. All depends on your watching habits but that's my setup