Raspberry PiTV HAT

I purchased this after it was recommended by a friend. It is easy to install and the setup of Tvheadend is relatively easy with many guides available on the Net. However I did notice that I was unable to view channels such as Court TV, Freesports and BBC 4 HD, though these are picked up by my TVs and PVRs. The mux in common with these channels is COM7. I use the Crystal Palace transmitter.Some research indicates that this is due to the internal tables used by TvHeadend not (yet) reflecting the last set of Freeview changes. I got around this by adding the COM7 mux manually to TV headend and doing a rescan. The settings I used were:Delivery system: DVB-T2, Frequency (Hz):746000000, Bandwidth:8Mhz, Constellation:QAM/256, Transmission mode:32K, Guard internval:1/128, Hierarchy:NONE, FEC high:2/3, Fec Low: NONE, PLP ID:0Once I added this mux, I was able to access the missing COM7 channels.Regarding streaming, the only client so far that works smoothly as far as playback is the Kodi app with the TVH add-on. I'm using this with my Macbook Pro. This works brilliantly with an EPG similar to that on the typical PVR. I am using a Raspbery Pi 3. I am yet to find an IOS client that streams smoothly.Overall I am happy to award 5 stars especially given the price.

Its Sony CXD2880 tuner chip can receive both SDTV and HDTV Freeview channels (DVB-T and DVB-T2).It works smoothly even on a Raspberry Pi Zero W when using the default HTSP and PASS profiles on Tvheadend (that are gentle on the CPU). CPU load while playing HDTV channels goes up to 20% max. If you have any HDTV playback issues at all it will be due to a low wireless network speed (between the Pi Zero and your router) so make sure that you are close to your router to achieve at least 30-40Mbps wireless connection to it.A highly recommended little device to setup a home TV server and watch TV on your tablet or phone from anywhere around the house. On Windows 10, I totally recommend using the SichboPVR TV client as it is the most complete and stable client I could find.

Is a replacement to test if one I already have is faulty as couldn't get it to pick up any stations.This replacement worked straightaway with tvheadend.. Also this is the cheapest you'll find.. very pleased with purchase.

A super cool idea to get Freeview TV on a Raspberry PI. It's relatively simple to install and I went down the LibreELEC disk image route to install the functionality. I found that the connector between the riser and the main board did not always get a good electrical connection and the device was not recognised. If I lifted the board half a millimetre it became available to the software. When you have a good signal the received quality is amazing seeing the size of the unit. I ended up purchasing three of these receivers as I was not convinced I'd not broken them. A really good experiment and hardware if you want to try Kodi and TVHeadEnd. I found that the board did not work with some of my cases and in the end I had to buy a special case which had been designed for it. Overall if you have the budget I'd recommend you look at the Hauppage Freeview receivers as I had a better experience overall using the dual channel version. As an exercise to learn the software you could do worse that starting with the less than £10 TV hat.

used with kodi libra electbit slow at tuning to station compared to more expensive tuners(i think)but for the price excellentworking on trying to stack more than 1

Simple to set up And strait forward to use. Care needed with the tv cable connector.

I just installed a RasPi 2 on my downstairs TV running LibreElec/Kodi and found out that this was available - so I thought I'd give it a try. I'm very impressed.Installation is not too hard, just plug the extension header into the RaspPi's header, then add the TV hat. In my case I had to remove the top of my case but that's no biggie. For me, in LibreElec all I needed to do was go to their repository, get TVheadend Server and then use a laptop to set it up. As many people will tell you, use the pihut guide, it really is the best (although on my first attempt I couldn't get many channels, so I reinstalled and tried again scanning for everything and it worked better that time!) - So top tip would be break open a cheap SD card and install a vanilla version of your OS/back up your OS before attempting set up as undoing TVheadend settings is a complete nightmare!Also note, I don't think the TVheadend server 'web' interface shows live video on Windows machines (at least, it didn't on any of mine!)Once the server was set up, I've just installed TVHeadend client on all the Kodi devices in my house and am now able to stream or record TV from wherever I am on my network.One final 'be aware' - the first device to log in to the server is in control of it (unless a pre-arranged recording is happening) so you'll only be able to watch channels on the same DVB multiplex on any additional devices (e.g. only BBC channels if you are recording BBC TV)All in all, worth the £7!

For the price I paid it's worth the money.Unfortunately no instructions in the box on how to install it. Be careful as you can install it the wrong way round. First off the expansion header goes on the back of the board where and not the front where the components are mounted. The aerial connection is quite easy to fall off as the adapter doesn't fit very well. Needs a sheet of instructions on installation and where to download the software for it.Once up and running it's fairly easy to use as a pvr just needs a remote control to use it and a large drive for dvr to function.