Connect the EyeTV Netstream Sat to power, an Ethernet cable to the RJ-45 port and a Coaxial cable into the satellite input port. Setup is really simple as it should be for a consumer device.
ELGATO EYETV HD TV
Total cost for this is in the region of £300 but with my current Sky TV bill coming in at £39 a month, this will pay for itself in eight months due to the nature of subscription free Freesat. You can expand this with the EyeTV Sat Free which is identical in looks however lacks the Ethernet port and instead connects to the EyeTV Netstream Sat by a USB cable adding a second tuner capability.įor my needs, I’m looking at a final design consisting of two EyeTV Netstream Sat devices with two subordinate EyeTV Sat Free devices which will give me a total of four Freesat HD tuners on the network. The EyeTV Netstream Sat on it’s own is a single tuner device allowing you to stream a single channel of Freesat HD TV to your network devices. The EyeTV Netstream Sat sells on Amazon for just shy of £130, but head to eBay and you can pick up a new unit for an eBay shop as I did for £100.
ELGATO EYETV HD WINDOWS
Once I’ve got this all working, I’ll be moving up a gear to setting it up with Windows Media Center for my HTPC.
ELGATO EYETV HD SOFTWARE
For this post, I’m just going to be installing the device and configuring it on my Windows 8.1 desktop PC to see if it works using the client software shipped with the device. I got a chance last week to have a go at setting this up to see how well it all works. Recently, I tweeted ( ) a picture of the new Elgato EyeTV Netstream Sat that arrived for me in the post. Elgato EyeTV Netstream Sat is a DVB-S2 Freesat HD network attached TV tuner which allows you to escape the set top box lockdown and enjoy TV how you want on almost any device using your existing satellite dish and home network.
I may look into ways that the export to the NAS can be automated with scripts, but with unreliable metadata, it seems a little dangerous.Network streamed TV is something I’ve long had an interest in due to the set top box lockdown imposed upon us in the UK by Sky and Virgin Media. In reality, the only labor intensive part is removing the commercials. It seems like a lot of work, but it’s really not too bad. (Note that it doesn’t let me play the files on a first gen AppleTV as the files are simply more than the AppleTV can handle. It works terrifically well, and I’ve been totally satisfied. This workflow allows me to watch any episode in Plex on my HTPC (Mac Mini), iPad, iPhone and other Plexy devices. (I have found that this convention works well with the scrubbers used in XBMC and Plex.) …/My Videos/TV Shows/Program Name/Season Number/Episode Name.SeasonEpisode I use the following conventions and tree structure to name my files:
ELGATO EYETV HD 720P
The Turbo has the capability to to 1080p, but I feel that 720p draws a nice balance between quality and bandwidth.ĥ. Recently, though, I picked up the EyeTV Turbo HD and have begun re-encoding the files to 720p. I used to open the package contents and copy the files to my NAS. This is the point where I have recently changed my workflow. (This is turned off wtihin the iPhone settings menu.)Ĥ. I don’t select any export settings (i.e., iPad or iPod). Once the advertisements are removed by re-compacting the file, I allow EyeTV to re-encode the entire file at the highest resolution. (note that you can use iMovie to edit the files, but that process can take a loooooong time.)ģ. Frame by frame navigation would be a welcome addition to the EyeTV software. This works okay, but results in some choppy transitions. I have found though, that you can get a little bit better granularity by holding the option key and using the arrow keys to move.
This is very easy to do, although I wish that it had greater frame granularity. Once recorded in EyeTV, I remove all the commercials using EyeTV’s software. The reason that I do it this way is because the TV Guide metadata isn’t always 100 percent accurate and I’ve missed episodes in the past.Ģ. I record all episodes (including duplicates) and sort them out later. I set up Smart Guides in EyeTV to capture the programs I record.
While I use a cable feed as my source, I only record HD feeds which in this case are the OTA channels. I use an Elgato Hybrid USB tuner, which works great. My HTPC setup relies on a number of content sources, one of which is Elgato’s EyeTV.
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