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I live in a rural area and my OTA antenna only picks up about 3 English channels. At work, we have an 80 ft tower which I installed a TV antenna on a few years back. This antenna gets about 15 channels including some major US networks. I would like to find a way to get access to the TV signal at work, on my TV home. Is there any way using Kodi or an alternative solution that I could achieve this. I would prefer to avoid the Slingbox type solution where the content is really only available through a mobile phone. I would prefer that it go straight to a media player accessible by my TV.
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TV Headend allows transcoding on-the-fly and has some ATSC compatibility - maybe that would be worth pursuing? You would probably need an x86 box to do the transcoding at your work, I don't think ARM boxes have the CPU power (and I don't think hardware encoding has been implemented)
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Does the HD Homerun re-encode ? I thought it was a tuner that delivered the broadcast stream unmolested? If that's the case then 5Mbs is not going to be a high enough bitrate for US ATSC MPEG2 HD streams is it? Would be OK for Slingbox though.
Having said that the HD Homerun Extend appears to re-encode MPEG2 to H264 for tablets and phones - so it might work - though I don't know what the API situation is within Kodi for the H264 re-encodes.