I'd only recommend this if you absolutely can't figure out a way to get your antenna signal close to your network router.įor a real look at just how easy the installation, setup and configuration of these devices is, I put together a short video - check it out below! There are tuner alternatives that will connect to your home network via wifi, but these can struggle with buffering if you don't have a very fast network, or if there's a lot of wireless traffic going through your house. I recommend using at least CAT6 cable for anything carrying a video signal, to make sure you have enough bandwidth to avoid buffering. The HDHomeRun devices need to be connected to the antenna, to power, and to your home network via ethernet. Not yet a concern for my use, since ATSC 3.0 broadcasts are not yet 4K, though I have noticed a drastic improvement in the audio quality on 3.0 vs 1.0 channels when using the HDHomeRun app.Ĭonnecting these devices is a piece of cake, especially if your antenna and your home network are close together. In the meantime, however, PLEX is still able to take advantage of all four tuners, but only in ATSC 1.0 quality. Support has indicated that they are working on the compatibility, but are awaiting a certain licensing certification from Dolby for the audio decoding process, and they have no estimate of when the certification will be available. One note, as of the time of this writing, PLEX's LiveTV & DVR feature is not yet capable of utilizing the ATSC 3.0 tuners. Video quality is indistinguishable compared to our Samsung QLED's built-in tuner and our Sony TV's built-in tuner.
It picked up all the channels the TiVo had been receiving, with higher signal strengths. So I swapped that tuner out for a HDHomeRun Connect Duo, a 2-tuner ATSC 1.0 device. I initially tried a different tuner device, but it struggled to pull in all of the channels that the TiVo was able to grab, even connected to the same antenna through the same cable. Switching over to the PLEX LiveTV & DVR system was a bit of a no-brainer, since I had already purchased the lifetime PLEX Pass. It worked really well, and has a great interface, but it required an extra subscription fee each month, and I had to have a TiVo device on every display to access it. To do this, you need a tuner, or multiple tuners, which can be achieved by adding a PCI card to your server, or an external tuner like the HDHomeRun devices offered by SiliconDust.Ī few years back, when I first setup my PLEX server, I was using a TiVo DVR for my antenna. Before you can use it for live tv, however, you need to connect a video source - in my case an antenna - to your computer. I think it's a great platform which not only allows me to access my entire media library on all my devices whether I'm home or not, but it also serves as my DVR setup (using PLEX's LiveTV & DVR features requires a PLEX Pass subscription).
If you've read many of my posts, you already know that I'm a big PLEX user.
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