Cord Cutters

[BigRedRage]

I still have an old school aerial on a pole outside my house with the cord still inside. Will this still work?

plug it in!

 

[NJCardFan]

Depends on your distance from towers but yes.

I'm in a wierd area, almost a black hole. I've tried indoor antennas but I can never seem to get them to work.

 

[Covert Rain]

I'm in a wierd area, almost a black hole. I've tried indoor antennas but I can never seem to get them to work.

Me neither. Tried several in door models. I ended up using a heavy duty antenna in my attic. I should probably move it to outside but it works.

 

[Chaplin]

Plex is simply a server, it isn't a means to get content other than channels that are basically simply linked to network sites.

If you want to get content in other ways, you do that seperate from Plex, those programs will them organize them in a library on your hard drive, and the the Plex server reads those directories and organizes it through an app or the Plex Home Theater application.

 

[BigRedRage]

I see the opposite (on the Kodi / Addons4Kodi subreddits). Most people stick to SALTS, Specto, Exodus, etc because they are simply pulling from sources on the web. They don't have to deal with torrents and "getting caught."

And while watching shows from sources on the web isn't illegal, it's still questionable since you're getting everything for free. So it's up to the user to decide if they mind going that route.

tried to find salts last night and didnt have much success. Will try again. Only spent about 10 minutes trying to figure it out.

 

[Covert Rain]

Plex is simply a server, it isn't a means to get content other than channels that are basically simply linked to network sites.

If you want to get content in other ways, you do that seperate from Plex, those programs will them organize them in a library on your hard drive, and the the Plex server reads those directories and organizes it through an app or the Plex Home Theater application.

Plex is a more of a media suite with a media server as one of its components. As you stated it can organizes audio/visual content from media libraries, streams it to mobile devices, smart TVs, and streaming boxes. The added bonus is the ability to add streaming channels of content. It also allows third party support for stuff like torrents. They recently added a new media player.

 

[JS22]

tried to find salts last night and didnt have much success. Will try again. Only spent about 10 minutes trying to figure it out.

"Stream All the Sources." SALTS for short.

Since this is all pretty gray area stuff I won't go too in-depth here. But I'll leave a few links. Definitely check them out if you want to dive down the rabbit hole and into the world of Kodi addons.

https://seo-michael.co.uk/tag/kodi/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Addons4Kodi/

 

[Chaplin]

Kodi used to be XBox Media Center (XBMC), which in my understanding was the most popular and used media server software.

I'm using Plex now and I've used Emby as well in the past. Plex seems to be the best, IMO. And certainly the easiest to set up.

 

[Folster]

I think I've solved my local sports deficiency with Sling TV. I was unable to find consistent streams of Suns and Dbacks on Kodi since cutting the cord in March.

I signed up for the 7 day trial of Sling's new Fox beta package. So far so good. It's $20 a month and includes the standard Sling channels sans Disney/ESPN channels. I get all of the Fox channels including FSAZ and the FSAZ alternate channels.

I can run multiple streams so I'll be splitting the cost with a buddy. $10 for consistent local sports + AMC, FX, TNT, HGTV, Food Network, CNN and some decent on demand content. It's not a bad deal.

 

[Covert Rain]

I think I've solved my local sports deficiency with Sling TV. I was unable to find consistent streams of Suns and Dbacks on Kodi since cutting the cord in March.

I signed up for the 7 day trial of Sling's new Fox beta package. So far so good. It's $20 a month and includes the standard Sling channels sans Disney/ESPN channels. I get all of the Fox channels including FSAZ and the FSAZ alternate channels.

I can run multiple streams so I'll be splitting the cost with a buddy. $10 for consistent local sports + AMC, FX, TNT, HGTV, Food Network, CNN and some decent on demand content. It's not a bad deal.

I signed up for SlingTV as well but will probably drop it as soon as the playoffs are over. The wife might beg to differ though because it's also giving her access to her HGTV. LOL.

 

[Folster]

I signed up for SlingTV as well but will probably drop it as soon as the playoffs are over. The wife might beg to differ though because it's also giving her access to her HGTV. LOL.

Yeah, my wife likes that and Food Network for background television.

 

[thirty-two]

Finally jumped on the Roku bandwagon. Got the Roku streaming stick today. Looooove it so far. I got tired of using my iPad to watch tv so I figured it was time to watch it on my actual tv.

I still don't regret cutting the cord. It does help things considerably if you know someone with a cable subscription, however.

 

[Beaver]

Got a firestick with side loaded Kodi app. Pretty awesome.

 

[TJ]

Anyone who uses Kodi have any good ideas on sports apps? Castaway and SportDevil hardly ever have accessible streams.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Anyone who uses Kodi have any good ideas on sports apps? Castaway and SportDevil hardly ever have accessible streams.

You try any of these?

https://tutorial-iptv-xbmc.blogspot.com/2015/11/best-addons-to-watch-live-sports-on.html

 

[JS22]

Anyone who uses Kodi have any good ideas on sports apps? Castaway and SportDevil hardly ever have accessible streams.

"Pro Sport"

Pulls streams from Reddit. Most NBA streams are 720p 60fps which is pretty damn impressive. The other sports are a little hit and miss as far as quality.

 

[MadCardDisease]

Anyone use one of those Tablo whole home OTA DVRs?

 

[Shaggy]

"Pro Sport"

Pulls streams from Reddit. Most NBA streams are 720p 60fps which is pretty damn impressive. The other sports are a little hit and miss as far as quality.

I'll check that one out.

 

[Covert Rain]

Anyone use one of those Tablo whole home OTA DVRs?

I looked into it but ultimately decided on TIVO. I love my TIVO.

 

[BigRedRage]

now that I am in mesa, all my cheap rabbit ear suck...cant seem to find a good solution outside of using an outdoor antenna which is a lot of work. I need to fix it soon as football season is getting close. I dont get fox or a bunch of other channels.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

Outdoor antenna is worth it. Do you still have existing satellite cables? Do what I did and mount the TV antenna where the satellite was and use those existing coax cables.

 

[BigRedRage]

Outdoor antenna is worth it. Do you still have existing satellite cables? Do what I did and mount the TV antenna where the satellite was and use those existing coax cables.

hmmmm I didnt think of that. My concern was running wire in all the walls but if it is already in the walls....I should have a splitter in the attic I could tap in to...now if it could just be 80 degrees for a high today I will go up there...

 

[dreamcastrocks]

hmmmm I didnt think of that. My concern was running wire in all the walls but if it is already in the walls....I should have a splitter in the attic I could tap in to...now if it could just be 80 degrees for a high today I will go up there...

I physically removed the satellite. You could just as easy go the splitter route too. Should save a lot of trouble with the wiring.

 

[BigRedRage]

I physically removed the satellite. You could just as easy go the splitter route too. Should save a lot of trouble with the wiring.

Yeah there is no satellite on my house however there was something, satellite or cable prior. where the satellite went into the home, there has to be a splitter that goes to all the rooms in the house so I could feed right into that. I'm rather excited about this solution I just have to figure out where the coax begins so I can post an antenna right there and feed in to it.

 

[Southpaw]

Just use a "coupler" fitting and mate the new antennae short coax to the "in" lead the DTV used. Just about every house built since the early 80s had in wall coax routing to each room served.

hmmmm I didnt think of that. My concern was running wire in all the walls but if it is already in the walls....I should have a splitter in the attic I could tap in to...now if it could just be 80 degrees for a high today I will go up there...

I physically removed the satellite. You could just as easy go the splitter route too. Should save a lot of trouble with the wiring.