HDhomerun DVR Support

[rahduke]

Can you guys touch base with the team from HDHomerunto work on integration with their upcoming DVR product. See the kickstarter link below:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... -imagined/

Please advise...

[Jhinta]

Can you guys touch base with the team from HDHomerunto work on integration with their upcoming DVR product. See the kickstarter link below:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/12 ... -imagined/

Please advise...

why not use a simple dvb stick (suported by dvblink) ?and you have the same, or compile it like i did
also Asus probably will only support DVBLink and dvblink will only support what they support you can always do a request.
http://forum.dvblogic.com/

also as the block schematic show , its a dlna, or upnp, + hdmi device . you cant connect it as tuner ( i could be wrong )
i'n my point of view ,, total wast of local bandwide if you have a hdmi output . but if you like it nobody stopping you.
and easy setup

[gibxxi]

For a start Jhinta, not everyone has their NAS sitting near a coaxial aerial socket, secondly a USB stick will use compute power from the NAS to function, thirdly, if the guy already has the HDHomeRun device, like me, which already provides him with ubiquitous access to TV and radio across his whole house for minimal bandwidth, why would he then go out and buy a USB stick to turn his NAS into exactly the same thing that the HDHomeRun is ALREADY?

I have experience of DVBLink with my old ReadyNAS, trying this very thing. Their software is very buggy, their support is poor and they ditch hardware compatibility readily. If there was any TV server software provider I'd put my trust in, it wouldn't be them.

But to the point; QNAP and Netgear devices both support the feature set provided by the new HDHomeRun DVR feature, even my old ReadyNAS Ultra 4 based device, although it says it can't detect the smbd service, it is at least listed in the HDHomeRun DVR-GUI. Don't be left playing catchup Asustor. You are a minnow in the NAS market, if you want to appeal to more people, these are the sort of efforts you as a company need to get behind.

The HDHomeRun device is a network based TV server built in hardware. It performs the same function as many DVB software solutions like DVBLink. Software clients (either via XBMC/Kodi or via it's own app) can then connect to the device to stream TV. However, the device itself contains NO storage, so for it to act as a true DVR, it needs to be able to access the NAS to store any programs flagged for recording. This is doable via XBMC/Kodi already with the backend (say NextPVR, for example) recording the stream to it's own preset folder. But that can then only be accessed by that local machine unless a "public" folder is specified or time-consuming sharing is set up. NAS support removes that restriction, then like the live TV channels & streams, recordings can also be accessed anywhere the HDHomeRun itself can be accessed.

Finally, it only utillizes network bandwidth when content is being actively streamed to a remote device. Which is the exact same thing you'd be doing with multiple client access to a TV dongle on a NAS anyway.

[rahduke]

I agree with gibxxi. Come on Asustor! Get on this!