Reply to: Transmit TV signal (Freeview) wirelessly?

[adubya]

Do you get a strong TV signal ? Perhaps a small indoor DVB antenna would work.

[GhostofTarbera]

Transmit TV signal (Freeview) wirelessly?

Get a cromcast or amazon stick and stream or cast

Job done

+ you will get 4K or HD the Telly signal ones are like watching 80’s TV quality


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[LariPilot]

Hi...it is wireless between the transmitter and your aerial. You can't have a wireless connection between the aerial and your TV. It would be illegal and interfere with others.
You either can use the complicated system in post 2 which still requires a cable connection or find a way to run an aerial feed. I'm sure an aerial installer would find a way of running a cable.

[Snarf]

Depending on how strong the signal is in your area you might not need one at all..

I have a TV in the office for playing old NES & SNES games on. When tuning it for the consoles it picked up all of the freeview channels - the coax wire from the tv to the console (around 1m) was long enough to act as an aerial.

The alternative would be an indoor aerial - there are a load of decent ones that will attach to the wall quite discreetly.

[d000hg]

I've got one using homeplugs and another p2p not much in it for quality...as its Amazon, not a problem to send back if it doesn't work for you

Would this interfere with other homeplug use?

[Alias]

Looks like a neat product but then I need a p2p ethernet cable between the two rooms. Unless I miss something, I might as easily just wire a coaxial cable instead?!

I've got one using homeplugs and another p2p not much in it for quality...as its Amazon, not a problem to send back if it doesn't work for you

[Uncle Albert]

Slingbox would work with an Amazon Firestick plugged into the telly.

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[Platypus]

HDHomeRunner sounds like what you need

[d000hg]

This works pretty well for me, no issues

Looks like a neat product but then I need a p2p ethernet cable between the two rooms. Unless I miss something, I might as easily just wire a coaxial cable instead?!

[Alias]

This works pretty well for me, no issues

[vetran]

TVman Home WiFi « TVman Home

I got mine from Maplin now discontinued

Or TVheadend or Homerun or

World's First DVB-T/T2 - DVB to IP - Network Tuner

[VectraMan]

"just have a small local transmitter in the house and a portable aerial on the TV" option.

This might do what you want...

https://ceke.en.alibaba.com/product/...ansmitter.html

[d000hg]

Interesting - yeah the rPi route does open up a lot of "but I don't want a separate PC" options since they're so cheap. I can't recall since I never used one but they support WiFi now, or easily can? So I could plug one into the loft by the master aerial cable. Otherwise I'd have to find a room which has both ethernet and coaxial sockets.

I still would need something in the office to get the signal onto the TV. I could use a 2nd rPi I suppose as a VLC client via HMDI-out. Or I wonder if one of these Google/Amazon dongles can consume VLC?

Only issue here is it starts to get complicated when I want to change channel. I like things simple so in my mind I've got a Coax -> wireless adapter and a wireless->coax adapter, so my TV is ignorant of all the clever stuff happening and my remote still works. Maybe this isn't as simple as it seems although I do come back to the "just have a small local transmitter in the house and a portable aerial on the TV" option.

[VectraMan]

I don't want to run a separate PC just to let me do this (well not unless I set up an always-on media-server which could do this).

Sounds like a job for a Raspberry Pi type thing.

Found this:

Watch and record live TV on your Raspberry Pi | TechRadar

Presumably you can skip the recording part (unless you want to) and just keep the streaming to the browser part. As always with Linux though, it's only free if your time is worthless ;-)

[d000hg]

VLC can do this:

https://angrytechnician.wordpress.co...lc-you-idiots/

That seems a great shout, with the one minor problem in my particular case that the PC I'd have to put the tuner card in is in the same room as the TV i.e. the room that doesn't have a TV point
I don't want to run a separate PC just to let me do this (well not unless I set up an always-on media-server which could do this).

Actually a secondary issue is that this way I need a PC to watch TV, not a TV. Again, I don't want to set up an additional PC in my office just for TV and I'd rather not have the TV as a 2nd monitor on my main PC because a)it just gets a bit over-complicated b)I probably want a 2nd monitor for work.

Very interesting though, I might revisit it another time if I have a similar but not identical issue.