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Saturday, 12 December 2020

 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;

  1. Kodi on Pi 4 with HDMI output 
  2. 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.
  3. Add external HDD (doesn't seem much point in an SSD as USB 3 interface is the rate limiting step)

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