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Thread: Choice of Freesat + Freeview Receiver/Recorder

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    Choice of Freesat + Freeview Receiver/Recorder

    Dear All, as a family we are moving away from Sky and would like to buy a box capable of the following:

    Must haves:

    -Play and Record Freeview and Freesat
    -(Very) Friendly EPG
    -Video over IP (view channels over internal network on browser)
    -Interface to move files over network (not only USB)

    Do not need media streaming as we own a number of Dune HD boxes and streaming is done via Fire TV units. Budget is about £200 and I have seen a few units that fit the bill but it would be nice to hear from some owners how these units operate in real life like the Gigablue UHD and VU+ Uno.

    In an ideal world it would be nice if the unit could record to a NAS rather than just to an internal HDD.

    Much obliged.

    Andrew.

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    I've got a vu solo 4k with no harddrive installed, everything records to my Synology over gigabit plugs.
    I've seen 6 concurrent 1080 recordings while playing back another stream without issue.

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    Quote Originally Posted by goRt View Post
    I've got a vu solo 4k with no harddrive installed, everything records to my Synology over gigabit plugs.
    I've seen 6 concurrent 1080 recordings while playing back another stream without issue.
    That's brilliant, have you tried watching TV from a browser/PC in the network?

    Thanks,

    Andrew.

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    Choice of Freesat + Freeview Receiver/Record

    All Enigma2 receivers will allow you to watch from a TV, phone or tablet on the same LAN without a problem. Ditto recording.

    If you want to do it over WAN, you need a receiver that does transcoding, preferably hardware transcoding. You must secure your receiver properly otherwise people will hack into your receiver/network.

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    Quote Originally Posted by abu baniaz View Post
    All Enigma2 receivers will allow you to watch from a TV, phone or tablet on the same LAN without a problem. Ditto recording.
    That's great news, I've been trying to decypher the German -> English translation from Gigablue and it looks like you can mount SMB network folders. Is that correct? I do not see where you add permissions (name/pass). Is it just missing from the manual? So from a PC is it as easy as getting a browser pointing at the IP of the device?

    This opens up more models as well.

    Thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AJSG View Post
    That's great news, I've been trying to decypher the German -> English translation from Gigablue and it looks like you can mount SMB network folders. Is that correct? I do not see where you add permissions (name/pass). Is it just missing from the manual? So from a PC is it as easy as getting a browser pointing at the IP of the device?
    Quote Originally Posted by AJSG View Post

    This opens up more models as well.

    Thanks.


    Manuals do not take into account options in 3rd party images such as OpenViX, OpenATV etc... Manuals are a guide only, users rarely use factory images.

    Via network browser you can mount shares on NAS, you'll then be asked in the wizard to if you want to enter user & pass.

    Yes easy to view web interface via browser, enter your receivers IP address in the browser address bar.

    See attached screenshot.

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