“TV Hat arrived yesterday. Took a while 14 calendar days. My life goes by real days not business days.
No configuration guide or instructions or link to look it up.”
“Fantastic add on for the pi. So much easier than my previous experience of a tv tuner when you had to add a PCI card to your PC and spend hours setting up and tweaking the channels. I simply drilled a small hole in my old pi case to fit the antenna connector, setup the scripts for the tuner hardware and the TVheadend server, after a quick google for my local transmitter name ID the setup was so quick and easy”
“Excellent board and remarkable value. Works perfectly on a Pi Zero with TVheadend. For those experiencing stuttering and picture breakup: don't use the viewer built-in to the TVheadend web server as this behaviour is a well-known software issue. Install VLC or Movian on the client (PC, Android phone, etc), point that at the TVheadend server and it all works perfectly.”
“Slowly getting to grips with this, you cannot use standard Raspbian as per the instructions, trawling online after following the instruction using a Pi B+ and Pi 3B+ yielded terrible results, 100% cpu usage, hi error rates etc...
You need to use a bare minimum build such as LibreELEC with tvheadend, then you get useable results using a wired connection on a pi 3b+, cpu usage around 15% with 2 channels streaming from the same MUX, actually watched 3 channels simultaneously on PC using VLC. All HD.
Using Wifi was not good on LibreELEC, failed to initialise connection on reboot, had to plug the PI HDMI port and add keyboard so that I could initialise wifi. Could only reliably stream 1 HD channel at a time over wifi.
Will have a look at using Raspbian Lite or Minibian and others, Recording was ok using tvheadend but could not mount my usb Hard Disk using LibreELEC. HD channels use around 2.3GB per hour storage if you record raw.”
“I followed all the instructions in the set up guide - including fresh install of Raspbian Stretch, installed TVheadend, update and upgrade, connecting the TV hat, etc.. and using a recommended RPi psu, attempted to watch TV on my Pi3.
The TV hat card does not work properly.
The TV channels freeze every few seconds, then play normally for a few seconds, then freeze again.
I tried using my Pi2, following the instructions to the letter again. Again, the TV channels freeze every few seconds.
I want to return the card for a full refund as it appears to be faulty.”
