Roku & HDHomeRun - A marriage made in heaven?

[ahaer]

Roku is now rolling out additional vendor developed channels (http://www.roku.com/roku-channel-store) as a prelude to a generally available SDK (http://www.roku.com/about/company 4th paragraph)

Does anyone know if someone is working on using the ROKU player to tune channels from HDHomeRun?

As a projector owner I'd love to use the Roku/HDHomeRun as my tuner instead of having to by another box to get basic TV

[WattoDaToydarian]

I just stumbled upon the specs of their HD unit and there is no mention of 1080p... It only says up to 720p...
The ASUS O!Play is capable of better video quality but lacks the on-line services. And if you desire on-line services then BOXEE is a great program for that if you connect your PC.
Youtube is going 1080p btw.

[gbuskirk]

I'm bumping this old topic to ask the question again. Has anyone developed a Roku channel for live streaming from a HDHomeRun? It is a terrific concept.

[twobits]

At first glance it does seem like a good idea. When the roku sdk first came out I aquired it with much the same idea in mind. However, the roku does not give access to low level networking, does not support 1080, and does not support udp streaming. It was not designed with lan streaming in mind, and does not list mpeg2 as a supported codec. This may not be an
issue as the chip set says it supports mpeg2, however that still at best leaves
the other issues.

So you need something to at least convert the stream to tcp such as livestreamer, and for 1080 content a scaler. You may also need a transcoder to h.264. This is in addition to a web server based tuner controller for setting up the channels in a way that you can control from the available functions on the Roku. In any case, the best chance of it happening, would be on the roku side, not here. They would need to add support for udp streaming, bring out the mpeg2 support of the chipset, and add a way to tune the channels that can be accessed from the sdk (assuming they did not just bring out the channel at that point themeselves with their more full access to the box).

So, probably not going to happen, at least with the current sdk and roku boxes. I am currently leaning towards trying the Xtreamer for something like this, but it does not support netflix, sigh, always compromises.

[twobits]

Well, roku lowered prices and announced support in the hd-xr model for 1080p will be coming soon. Wonder if they would be receptive to putting in upd streaming as well.

[dherman]

With the Roku 3.0 SDK they add UDP support

[gplasky]

But it still doesn't support mpeg2.

Gerry

[l0aded]

bump with a question.

i found out to my dismay that my cable company doesnt support HDHomerun Prime and has been giving me a massive headache about it so i cancelled my cable card and got my activation fee money back and now i am sitting here with a HDHomeRun prime and no cable card...

is there anything I will be able to do with the HDHRP and a roku that doesnt require the cable card or is it effectively useless without the card?

[erwos]

Your cable company MUST provide you with a CableCard (at a reasonable monthly rental fee) and provide assistance activating your HDHR as per FCC regulations. If they won't, contact SD... and if that doesn't work, file an FCC complaint.

[qbus]

dose the homerun plugin for Plex work on the Roku version of Plex?

[sl0re10]

I'm bumping this old topic to ask the question again. Has anyone developed a Roku channel for live streaming from a HDHomeRun? It is a terrific concept.

I don't think it can work. The roku's can't transcode video (hulu netflix et all just send out a special roku optimized stream for roku users). Something would need to step down the HD stream from the homerun to the roku... like a media center computer... in which case you'd need to just use the client for the media center in question.