[mythtv-users] ATSC 3.0 HDHR Quatro

[Tom Bishop]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 2:21 PM Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:49 PM Jim Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Not sure if Mythtv could be made to support it but it's interesting.
>
> I would expect the internal support should be possible.
> It is even possible it will all just work out of the box.
>
> The 3rd party external recorder supporting HDHR
> tuners also might just work without changes since the
> new tuner will be using the same HTTP streaming
> protocols as previous devices.
>
> But in any case until the device(s) ship no one will
> have one to test and develop with so it is mostly
> theoretical at this point.
>
> If someone really wants early support one might ask
> on the developers mail list if a developer living in one
> of the early cities for ATSC 3.0 would prioritize such
> work in exchange for a free (to them) device for their
> work and then purchase one for you and one for them
> (or alternatively be prepared to write the patches
> yourself as needed).  There are only a few devs who
> have historically tended to the tuner/recorder codes.
> I don't know the overlap between the experienced
> devs and their locations for early ATSC 3.0 channels.
>
> It should be noted that the upstream hdhomerun
> library had initial updates for the new devices back
> in early March.  I doubt most distros have updated to
> that newer version of the library, and more updates
> may be necessary, so the project may end up being
> forced to bundle the library again for a time (as I
> recall, the change was to recognize the new tuner
> type as being a valid tuner, but I only skim commit
> logs so there may be more).
>


I'd be willing to chip in on one of the development tuners for a developer
if some other users want to give it a go....just let me know.

:)

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