Transmit TV signal (Freeview) wirelessly?

[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.

[d000hg]

These days there's this sort of thing:

AEI DigiSender 1080p HDMI over Powerline - 3x HDMI sources to 1x Output | Maplin

Quite expensive though.

Yeah, neat but pricey.

how is the TV signal strength, can't you just use a cheapo internal aerial for the TV in the office?

I tried that, no signal at all. I think the house orientation means my office is on exactly the worst aspect of the house... the transmitter is on the other side of the house (typical).

What do you need freeview for in your office that you can't get online?

Any TV channel that isn't online, for a start. Plus, my TV doesn't go online in the first place (granted a cheap set-top box is easy to get).

[Jim Spector]

VLC?

VLC can do this:

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

[TheFaQQer]

What do you need freeview for in your office that you can't get online?

[sal]

how is the TV signal strength, can't you just use a cheapo internal aerial for the TV in the office?

[VectraMan]

I used to have a wireless transmitter, you attached one part to a freeview box, including a bit that went over the infrared receiver.
The second part plugged in to the tv and had an IR receiver on it. You could use the freeview remote to control the freeview box.

I had one of those. It was analogue and I had to turn off the internet router to be able to use it.

These days there's this sort of thing:

AEI DigiSender 1080p HDMI over Powerline - 3x HDMI sources to 1x Output | Maplin

Quite expensive though.