Tv streaming help

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Nathanhu

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any tips on getting tv signal from one room to another?

im using an old transmitter and reciver to ping the tv signal into the bedroom at the moment, but the wifi is affecting the signal a lot which is a bit of a pain.

the system im using is about 10 years old and its time to rethink what to do wih some modern tech.

anyone used a Slingbox, or the such like? i have a hardrive with my ripped DVDs etc on and i wouldnt mind being able to access that as well.

cheers in advance
 
What TV's are you using? If they are newer ones you could run Plex on both of them which you use as a media server to watch your films.
 
I havent gotten as far as replacing tv's yet, but all have HDMI/ VGA USB etc
i have a sky hd box and would like to push it wirelessly around the house if possible

:)
 
There are loads of solutions for doing stuff like this so I'll give you an example summary of one I did recently.

Needed TV services in a back bedroom, no aerial or any sort of networking. Wi-fi bad.

In another room, I had spare aerial lead near the Virgin router.

Bought a small Lenovo Q180 Blu-Ray PC with a Vesa mount. Mounted this on the bedroom wall behind an old LCD-TV.

Bought an HDHomerun Dual DVB-T tuner. Connected this near the Virgin router. Extended the network it to the bedroom using a couple of AV200 Powerline adaptors with passthru sockets. Powerline is much better than wi-fi for a steady video stream.

Install drivers etc on the Windows 7 Lenovo and now I can watch Tv and do anything from in the bedroom. Plays blu-rays fine too which was a bonus :)
 
Ah, sorry. Posted before I saw your comment about sky but you could watch sky online instead of course.
 
We had an aerial splitter placed in the loft space, it sends Sky to all TV's in the house. Really cheap option, you can add a "Magic Eye" and then able to control Sky from another room
 
ah now we're getting somewhere.

to give a better idea of what i am working with-
i have a set of Devolo network over powerline connectors.
a sky Hd box
a Dreambox (for german Tv)
normal Wifi from landline
Apple Tv verson 2
and the normal xbox/ Wii combo


after having a look online it seems getting the signal into the web is easy, but getting the signal out??
 
On the plex side if you got older TV's you can pick up rasberry pi and run rasplex on it http://rasplex.com/.
 
Something of a pet project of mine this stuff is...

I run XBMC on a raspberry pi on both tv's in the house. One of the nice things about having multiple XBMC's is they can share a library so it tracks what you've watched across all installs, and as the party piece you can pause something downstairs, walk upstairs, press play and it and picks up where you left off on the other tv. Plex may well do this too considering it's based on XBMC.

Media is streamed from my home server; which might be dvd/blu ray/recorded tv/live tv/timeshifted tv etc. Everything except live tv comes over NFS shares, live tv is taken care of by tvheadend, which also does PVR type stuff. Server runs linux and has a twin DVB-T2 tuner card (which is freeview HD in the UK to non techies) - otherwise it's a fairly average server mostly cobbled together from old parts I had around.

I cat 5'd the house for the network, mostly by repurposing the unused phone extension wiring - my 85mbps homeplugs weren't up to streaming HD, but imagine 200 would be if you don't fancy cabling up! I'd definitely not suggest expecting to use wifi.

PS: I'm a developer - so it wasn't a huge hassle for me - it has been a bit of a hobby/labour of love though and taken a bit of time to get right and always making adjustments/improvements. But it's not necessarily something I'd suggest you get into if you aren't comfortable compiling drivers from source or writing a bit of code to fill in a gap! (Or indeed if none of that means anything!)
 
thanks Benlumley,

so pretending im an idiot for a moment ( not too much of a stretch) what would be my first step? Devolo outputs in every room with tv,
then what next lol

i have a few Dell Pc's in the celler i could use as a server?
 
I'm sitting firmly in the XBMC camp here.

I used to like to have all my media stored on hard drives but have recently been convinced otherwise, mostly in part to the quality that XBMC's streaping repositories offer.

As for the hardware, an old Acer Aspire Revo R3600 running XBMCbuntu works an absolute charm.

Dare I say, with the addition of the airplay I could even do away without the Apple TV if not for the fact it doesn't support airplay mirroring (something I use relatively often)

As previously mentioned we also run the av200's, relatively good value from amazon, and so far have had no issues whatsoever (the speed is adequate for the usage.)

I do like the idea of the Pi (you can also get small xbmc boxes for about £60 from amazon too) but I would like to run a mac mini for my ultimate set up (doing away completely with a virgin/sky box)
 
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