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Sigh. Again, I see what you're saying with them incurring a cost broadcasting those channels that are free if you grab them OTA, I'm just mad that I'm in a place where I don't really have the ability to have those basically three or four channels available OTA. thus my question about BoxeeTV. I'll look into other options.
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Better yet, I got one of those combo deals from Comcast with some TV included and they give me a lovely little box that plays the local channels in lovely blurry SD quality. You gotta pay an extra charge or two to get ANYTHING in HD, even if it comes over the air that way. I actually ended up running an amplified antenna just so I could get those channels in HD on the rare occasion I actually want to watch something live nearby. The Boxee TV thing I got is just a tuner so it won't help you if you can't get the TV in your room in the first place. An amplified antenna somewhere near the wall closest to the exterior of the building is probably the best you're gonna manage unless you pony up to Comcast or a competitor.
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Yeah just buy an amplified antenna. Amazon makes one for like $62. I just bought one and it works fine.
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Apr 18, 2014 17:56
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Yeah just buy an amplified antenna. Amazon makes one for like $62. I just bought one and it works fine.
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Apr 18, 2014 18:01
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Woah, that's actually kinda cool. I definitely need to check to see if my TVs have DNLA then because right now I only have the antenna hooked up to one TV.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Woah, that's actually kinda cool. I definitely need to check to see if my TVs have DNLA then because right now I only have the antenna hooked up to one TV. I use an hdhomerun and its great. I use WMC though with an HTPC. They have new ones now that do h264 transcoding internally so you can use ios or android devices to watch tv.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Woah, that's actually kinda cool. I definitely need to check to see if my TVs have DNLA then because right now I only have the antenna hooked up to one TV.
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A friend of mine has a https://simple.tv. Its basically a self owned aereo system.
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deong posted:A friend of mine has a https://simple.tv. Its basically a self owned aereo system.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Yeah just buy an amplified antenna. Amazon makes one for like $62. I just bought one and it works fine. Inside? How far are you away from the closest broadcasting station? Have a model? Sorry for so many questions, but I'm quite interested. 
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eightysixed posted:Inside? How far are you away from the closest broadcasting station? Have a model? Sorry for so many questions, but I'm quite interested. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DIFIP06/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 On average I'm 30-35 miles away from my local stations, which is right about the range you want to get an amplified antenna. I mounted it as high up on my wall next to a window.
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Apr 19, 2014 00:34
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deong posted:A friend of mine has a https://simple.tv. Its basically a self owned aereo system. Had one (the original, not the v2), didn't like the interface and the speed, and went with the Roamio. Much better for OTA.
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So I've been running XBMC 13.1 final on the Boxee. It works great. I tried it on internal memory first and that is not so good, addons and fanart quickly use up all internal memory. Instead use a quality thumbdrive for the xbmc install. Especially useful is the ability to turn all my 3d SBS content into 2D for the living room tv upstairs.
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Is it still relatively straight forward to get it on there, and is it mostly complete now? I am about ready to do away with the original OS as what made it great (suggested videos, facebook feed) is now pretty much all broken and dead anyway.
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jonathan posted:So I've been running XBMC 13.1 final on the Boxee. It works great. I tried it on internal memory first and that is not so good, addons and fanart quickly use up all internal memory. Instead use a quality thumbdrive for the xbmc install. Especially useful is the ability to turn all my 3d SBS content into 2D for the living room tv upstairs. how? with this? http://boxeed.in/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=116
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Can the Boxee access 2 usb hard drives at the same time? If not, would installing xbmc on it allow 2 drives to be used?
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Jun 17, 2014 17:15
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I had 5 drives connected my Boxee Box. no issues with the regular boxee software.
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Cornjob posted:I had 5 drives connected my Boxee Box. no issues with the regular boxee software. Thanks, I'll have to do some troubleshooting. Mine keeps coming up with errors that it can't access the drives when I try and play a video file from the library. Edit: Upon some research, the Boxee can only power 1 drive so I need to get a powered usb hub to plug them into.
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2 ways to do it, 1 Install the boxee+hacks Run the windows executable from a PC on the same network This installs it to the internal memory. 2 Install boxee+hacks Load xbmc onto a USB thumb drive It will automatically boot from the thumb drive. I ran into space issues running boxee from internal memory due to my library fanart size. I'd recommend a quick USB 3 thumb drive, even though its going into a USB 2 port, the usb3 stick will be delivering max bandwidth to boxee. Or if you can force xbmc to load the fanart via the fanart folders within the movie directories on your NAS or USB drive then running xbmc off internal memory might be quicker. jonathan fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Jun 18, 2014 |
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Ugh. Mine is now doing this thing where when I turn it on, as soon as I start playing a video file it dies and won't turn back on for about 20 minutes. After that, it usually dies again trying to play a file, but after that it's fine. I guess it's had a good nearly 4 year run. Is there anything as good at local media playback yet that isn't an HTPC?
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VERTiG0 posted:Ugh. Mine is now doing this thing where when I turn it on, as soon as I start playing a video file it dies and won't turn back on for about 20 minutes. After that, it usually dies again trying to play a file, but after that it's fine. I guess it's had a good nearly 4 year run. Firetv with xbmc
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VERTiG0 posted:Ugh. Mine is now doing this thing where when I turn it on, as soon as I start playing a video file it dies and won't turn back on for about 20 minutes. After that, it usually dies again trying to play a file, but after that it's fine. I guess it's had a good nearly 4 year run. WDTV lives arent bad.
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Don Lapre posted:Firetv with xbmc Didn't realize this was a thing. So just need to side load the xbmc apk? Looked quickly at the wiki, looks like root isn't needed but some add-ons can use root... I was thinking an Intel nuk but the firetv if much cheaper.
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looking to offload a boxee box soon, if anyone is looking for one shoot me a PM and we can work it out in SA-Mart or something.
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Oh poo poo, is there much of any issues with this xbmc on fire? That looks like an awesome solution.
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It's awesome on the Fire TV. If you want to use an external USB drive you have to root it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3644021
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Elston Gunn posted:It's awesome on the Fire TV. If you want to use an external USB drive you have to root it. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3644021 I'm more worried about just using a NFS share off my NAS than I am any sort of local content. But I imagine that's built into XBMC (I have 0 experience with it)
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ILikeVoltron posted:I'm more worried about just using a NFS share off my NAS than I am any sort of local content. But I imagine that's built into XBMC (I have 0 experience with it) XBMC supports like every possible file sharing protocol. It even supports ftp and poo poo http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=File_sharing
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You guys are starting to convince me to dump my 2 Boxees for fire tvs. Dammit. Granted I haven't read the wiki yet, but does it take a lot of loving around to get XBMC working on it? I basically only stream local content from my NAS via SMB shares.
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I would honestly wait for the android TV coming this fall.
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Its easy but as of right now, starting XBMC on it is kinda weird, you can't create alaunch button for it, instead you must go into settings and choose to launch it. This could possibly be improved by new with the root stuff figured out a couple weeks back.
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Don Lapre posted:I would honestly wait for the android TV coming this fall. So this is the new Andriod version that's coming out from google I/O right? This one keeps poping up : http://www.androidtv.com/android-tv-community.html and is $200, running on jelly bean, anyway - what hardware are we looking at for andriod tv? Is there a new device or are you just thinking you'll run android tv on the fire? That would make sense to me.
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ILikeVoltron posted:So this is the new Andriod version that's coming out from google I/O right? This one keeps poping up : http://www.androidtv.com/android-tv-community.html and is $200, running on jelly bean, anyway - what hardware are we looking at for andriod tv? Is there a new device or are you just thinking you'll run android tv on the fire? That would make sense to me. There are new devices coming out in fall that run "android tv" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaDVXhqwHcc
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