Opinion on HDHomeRun and thoughts on should I get it?

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eragon52

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#315722 9-Aug-2024 23:40

Hey All,

Been doing some research on Plex with a Live-DVR setup, throughout my googling I kept seeing HDHomeRun pop out a lot and saw it is a US company so not too sure if I can order it. I did notice they have a AUS /NZ online store site. Has anyone used it to order one?

Would also like to know some opinions if anyone has Plex running with HDHomerun, What are the good and bad. What do you find annoying and all.

Reason why I started diving into this type of thing, is due to my whole household are using Plex as our main place to watch movies, tv shows and such. One of my family members raised an idea of having NZ TV on plex would be amazing since they can watch it on their phone/tablet when they want and cast it to a chromecast if needed.

Also looking to see if any store in NZ sells it.

davidcole

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#3270159 10-Aug-2024 09:10

Depends if you need recording.

I have one, have for years since converting from 3x tri tuner cards.

But honestly just use it for a tiny bit of live tv..sometimes when I don’t feel like chewing internet. But the live tv section of the tvnz app would get more use (in Apple TV and Google tv based)

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#3270288 10-Aug-2024 13:36

Last time I bought one it was from Amazon UK. You will need a model that supports DVB-T, the US ones don't. The big pro for me was that it didn't need to be close to my Plex server, just on the same LAN. I gave up on Plex DVR about 2017 maybe? I found so little to record, and comskip would chop bits it shouldn't and leave bits it should. My client devices are Android so it's easier to just side load the Freeview app for live TV and use the ThreeNow and TVNZ apps for local content.

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#3270289 10-Aug-2024 13:47

I've had a HDHomeRun CONNECT DUO in my network for about four years now. Initially, it was useful for watching Freeview on a TV in another building that doesn't have RF cabling.

But, as described above, its usefulness has been superseded by ondemand and streaming apps like TVNZ+. I don't think we've used it at all for a year or two now!