Plan for TV Freedom
The goal is to get rid of the set top box supplied by Virgin, and go subscription free
What I need to achieve:
- wife and child friendly bug free operation. It should just work
- freeview channels
- remote control
- simultaneous recording and viewing with local storage of at least 1 TB
- integrated netflix, iplayer, amazon prime, etc
- the ability to add on movie archives, etc
I've decided to investigate Kodi on a Pi 4 for this purpose.
My incremental plan then;
- Kodi on Pi 4 with HDMI output
- Try Kodi Freeview Addon, or something similar. If this doesn't work consider a tuner. IPTV Recorder looks like a useful resource. Would much rather not use the external aerial and stick with IP.
- Add external HDD (doesn't seem much point in an SSD as USB 3 interface is the rate limiting step)
