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Self-hosted dvr (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Are they any self hosted dvr programs? I have a cable set-top box that I would like to record programs while I'm away. Yes I can pay to enable the dvr functionality from my cable provider but I'm cheap and would like my shows available to any computer in the house and not just the one hooked up to set-top device. Do I need specific hardware like a TV tuner card to integrate into my pc? All I see is all in one systems being sold for OTA channels of which I have none available where I am. Would be a bonus if it worked with jellyfin. Is anybody still doing this stuff or has everyone just moved on to the arr stack?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I've got an interesting setup I'd like to share:

So I've got a Raspberry Pi with 4 RTL-SDRs, 2 for TV, 1 for radio, and 1 for plane transponders. That runs SatPi for the 2 TV SDRs, which TVHeadend running on my main server connects to, to record and stream. Jellyfin also connects to TVHeadend to properly index everything and for easy access to recordings and live TV.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I have 2 rtl-sdrs that I could repurpose for testing before buying a hdhome run box. How well do the rtl-sdr handle the digital tv channels? Are you using the included intenna or pretuned TV antenna and adapters?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

IIRC the RTL chip inside them was originally designed for TV, so it works great! I'm actually using very cheap AliExpress clones for the TV ones, because they otherwise don't work very well.

I'm also using the outdoor TV antenna on my roof (common in Australia, idk elsewhere), and a splitter and adaptors. And with that I get every channel with no artifacts, at 30% strength, but that'll probably be higher with not awful SDRs.