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Just bought a Sony Smart TV with Android TV. I and have downloaded Kodi 17 onto the TV. Trying to set up for live TV on the TV but I know nothing about how to go about it. All internet searches seem to assume the reader knows something and the screens never look like what I'm looking at. I need a detailed guide as to what I need to do (A to Z compilation) in order to get live TV on my Sony TV. Something with descriptions of what things are and their significances would be great but the focus for me right now is simply to get something up and running. The learning curve starts.
Currently I have no live TV on my PC. I do have a digital cable PVR connected to the TV, but that's from a cable company and not internet oriented.
Do I need to do something on my PC (Windows 7 OS)? Is it all TV oriented? Do I need to buy something? TV is connected to my wireless internet.
Any help?
Thanks in advance
John
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Thad no you. This looks like we had I need. Any suggestions for a good tuner to purchase?
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bry
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I use an hdhomerun prime personally.
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nickr
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Doesn't your tv already have a tuner?
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Yes it does but how c as N I use it for live tv
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I have the hdhomerun prime as well, it works with cable tv, you just need to get a cable card from your cable company and plug it into the hdhomerun prime. Then you need some backend PVR software to handle the streaming/recording of LiveTV. I use MythTV but it's linux only. For Windows 7 I believe Windows Media Center works well with the hdhomerun units. I replaced all my cable company DVR boxes with this setup.
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TVGrrr
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2017-03-26, 16:40
(This post was last modified: 2017-11-13, 13:44 by Klojum.)
I don't think that you can link Kodi with your TV's internal tuner, you will need to use an external backend
I'm from the UK using the VBox TV Gateway 4K DVB-T2 *mod-edit*
It is connected to my roof aerial and I use it to distribute live TV and as a recording server (network PVR)
