Setting up an OTA antenna channel stream system

[matrixebiz]

Hello, looking for some help in setting up an OTA antenna channel stream system.

I have an OTA Antenna that gives me a few channels, so what I’m looking for is a way to get them into my computer, so I assume I will need a USB DVB Tuner of some sort to hookup the antenna coax to my PC (Recommendation Please)

Then I will need a program that will read the channels from the DVB Device like ProgDVB ? (Recommendations please)

Then will need to somehow link each channel I get to an HLS/m3u8 link to be able to access them from outside my network (VLC? - Recommendations please)

Will I also need a web server to allow the links accessible from the outside?

I already have a dlink dns service running so I can access stuff on my Plex server from outside my network already so I assume I would use that as part of the http: link/address feed from VLC or alike?


Any help would be appreciated. Thank you

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

There are plenty of USB DVB-T sticks you can buy off the shelves. VLC can do both the tuning and reading of the stream, as well as the remuxing and streaming out. Refer to the documentation.

[matrixebiz]

Okay and it looks like these USB tuners come with its own little antenna. Looks like its a DIN connection? can I hook a regular coax UHF/VHF antenna to it with a connector of some sort?

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Check the product technical specifications.

[matrixebiz]

Hello, I am going to get a USB tuner and I was wondering what Video format do I stream from VLC to be Roku compatible video format? Thx