Macos Hdhomerun Signal Strength App

The 'Weak signal' is obviously not a weak antenna signal going to the HDHomeRun or it would not work so well when not on cellular data. I also have a signal meter and I am getting 100% strength from the antenna on all 33 channels in my area. Ok, let me first share my hardware setup I am using a HomeRun Extend as my capture device. Install the app by copying it to the Drobo Apps share. To do this, use Drobo Dashboard to map the Drobo Apps share on your host, then copy the file to the root directory of the Drobo Apps share. Once the package is copied, you must reboot the Drobo to install it. The HDHome Run app is pretty sleek too.very simple! I've not used the DVR feature of the HDHome Run software, because I use Plex. The device is great - instructions would have been nice! For example, to check signal strength when using your antenna, you have to look at the device's webpage on your network. Not referred to online or in the.

Step 1 – Antenna

Connect your antenna (sold separately) to the antenna socket on the back of your HDHomeRun device using the coaxial cable supplied.

Phew. Step 1 complete. You now have a TV signal

Hdhomerun view signal strength

Step 2 – Router

Connect your HDHomeRun device to your router using the ethernet cable provided. The LED should glow solid GREEN and your device is ready to go.

Almost there. Step 2 complete.

Step 3 - Our Live TV app

Download our Live TV app from HERE and install the software on your Mac. Open the application and you have FREE local live TV! The free app gives you 24 hours of program data, but if you want more, and you want to record your favorite TV too, why not upgrade to our DVR service?

Yay. And you're done.

Our flexible, standalone DVR server that lets you schedule and watch recordings anywhere.

The brain for Channels Plus.

Channels DVR Server runs on your computer or NAS device at home. There's no cloud to worry about. Your recordings and shows will always be available. Simply install Channels DVR Server on a device and Channels will magically see it from any TV or device you own.

As a Channels Plus subscriber, your first step is to simply install Channels DVR Server to let it power your new TV watching experience.

With minimum requirements of 1GHz CPU and 1GB RAM, it doesn't take a fast computer to run Channels DVR Server. Find an old computer and connect a big hard drive to it. You'll be running a DVR at home in minutes.

Minimum Requirements

HDHomeRun network TV tuner
1GHz CPU (64-bit Intel, or 32-bit/64-bit ARM)
512MB RAM
Large HDD for storing recordings
HDTV is on average ~8GB per hour

Recommended Requirements

HDHomeRun network TV tuner
Intel CPU with Quick Sync for hardware transcoding
1GB RAM
2TB HDD for storing over 250 hours of recordings

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Computer

NAS

Software

macOS

Channels DVR Server can be installed on macOS Yosemite (10.10) or newer.

The service runs on port 8089, and has a web interface available at http://localhost:8089 for configuration.
Change your Energy Saver preference to 'Prevent computer from sleeping' to ensure the DVR does not miss any recordings.
Run the installer again if you need to stop or uninstall Channels DVR Server.
If you would like to run the DVR as a background service, open Terminal.app and paste: `~/Library/Application Support/ChannelsDVR/install.sh --system`. Note that the hardware transcoder is not available when running as a service.

Windows

Signal

Channels DVR Server can be installed on versions of Windows 7, 8 and 10.

Channels DVR Server does not require administrator privileges, and installs into c:ProgramDataChannelsDVR.
The first time it runs, the Windows Firewall may ask for Administrator privileges to allow private network access.
The service runs on port 8089, and has a web interface available at http://localhost:8089 for configuration.
The service starts up automatically on login. Run netplwiz.exe to enable auto login and ensure the service is always running after a reboot.
Computers with modern NVidia or Intel HD Graphics cards can automatically utilize hardware accelerated transcoding. Use the Intel Driver Update Utility to make sure your drivers are up to date.
We recommend the 64-bit version of Windows for optimal performance, but a 32-bit installer is also available.

Linux / FreeBSD

Hdhomerun Signal Meter App

Channels DVR Server can be installed on Linux or FreeBSD by running a simple script.

SSH into your linux machine and use the following command to install Channels DVR Server:

The setup script will create a channels-dvr directory in the current directory and download Channels DVR Server there. It will then detect if your linux distribution uses systemd, upstart or init.d, and will install the appropriate startup script. The script may ask for sudo access during this process.
We recommend that you run the setup script in your home directory as your own user so Channels DVR Server is installed into ~/channels-dvr.
If you prefer instead to install into /usr/local, run this before the setup script:
If you have an Intel processor, make sure you add your user to the video and render groups so the Channels DVR Server transcoder can use /dev/dri for hardware acceleration: sudo adduser $(id -u -n) video.
If your / and /home mounts have limited space or i/o-throughput (for example, when using an SD card with the Raspberry Pi), install Channels DVR Server on an externally mounted USB HDD instead.
If you plan to use TV Everywhere, install your linux distrubution's chrome or chromium package. For example, apt-get install chromium-browser.
The service runs on port 8089, and has a web interface available at http://localhost:8089 for configuration.
Bonjour (aka zeroconf) is used by the Channels apps to automatically discover your DVR on your network. If you have a firewall, ensure that port 5353 is whitelisted for TCP/UDP access.

Raspberry Pi 4

The new Raspberry Pi 4 runs Channels DVR Server great.

SSH into your Raspberry Pi and use the following command to install Channels DVR Server:

We recommend that you run the setup script on your externally mounted USB HDD as your own user so Channels DVR Server is installed there rather than your SD card.
The service runs on port 8089, and has a web interface available at http://dvr-pi.local:8089 for configuration.
Full transcoding and deinterlacting of MPEG2 is supported for up to 1 stream.
You will need to manually install Chromium in order to get TV Everywhere support. Install simply with sudo apt-get install chromium-browser
Bonjour (aka zeroconf) is used by the Channels apps to automatically discover your DVR on your network. If you have a firewall, ensure that port 5353 is whitelisted for TCP/UDP access.
The setup script will create a channels-dvr directory in the current directory and download Channels DVR Server there. It will then detect if your linux distribution uses systemd, upstart or init.d, and will install the appropriate startup script. The script may ask for sudo access during this process.

Synology

Channels DVR Server can be installed by uploading our software into the Synology DSM Package Center.

For more information, see the DSM Documentation.

Navigate to the the manual install page

Upload

QNAP

Channels DVR Server can be installed by uploading our software into the QNAP App Center.

For more information, see the QNAP App Center documentation.

QTS 4.2.0 or higher is required.
To make sure your DVR recordings start on time, go to Control Panel > General Settings > Time and change Time interval to every 6 hours.
The service runs on port 8089. QNAP's Virtualization Station also uses port 8089 and will cause the installation of Channels DVR Server to fail. Please disable Virtualization Station if you have installed it, or change its settings to use a different port than 8089.

WD MyCloud

Channels DVR Server can be installed by uploading our software into the Apps tab.

The single-drive WDMyCloud and WDMyCloudMirror (Gen1) are not compatible with Channels DVR Server.

For more information, see the WDMyCloud documentation.

Netgear ReadyNAS

Channels DVR Server can be installed by uploading our software into the ReadyNAS Apps interface.

ReadyNAS OS 6.2 is required. For more information, see this tutorial.

Navigate to the upload page

Upload

Seagate/Lacie (NAS OS)

Channels DVR Server can be installed by uploading our software into the NAS OS App Manager

NAS OS 4.2 is required. For more information, see the NAS OS documentation.

Unraid

Macos

Channels DVR Server can be installed on the Docker tab using a template repository.

unRAID v6 is required. For more information, see the unRAID documentation.

Add the URL of the template repository

Create container

Channels DVR Server running

For hardware transcoding support, edit /boot/config/go to add the line modprobe i915, and configure your container to pass-through the /dev/dri device:

FreeNAS

Channels DVR Server can be installed on FreeNAS 10 via our iocage plugin.

Run the following command to install Channels DVR Server iocage plug-in:

Asustor

Channels DVR Server can be installed by uploading our software into Asustor App Central.

To enable hardware transcoding, you may need to install the Asustor ffmpeg package.

NVidia SHIELD

Channels DVR Server can be installed on the NVidia SHIELD from the Google Play store.

SHIELD Experience 5.1 or higher is required.

After installing Channels DVR Server from the Google Play store, open it to receive installation instructions.

Drobo 5N

Channels DVR Server can be installed on the Drobo 5N.