Is there a wireless HDTV router?

keegs · Aug 3, 2012

IP is the protocol that's used by your PC to talk to the internet and other nodes on your local network...eg. printers, appliances, other pc's, the router...etc.

Typically wireless routers also run DHCP services which provides IP addressing to nodes on your local network that are set up to be DHCP clients (a common network configuration).

Typically a home wireless router has some extra RJ45 ports on the back. You need to run a physical connection from the RJ45 port on the back of the homerun to an available port on the wireless router.

When you turn on the homerun (which is set up with a DHCP client config), it will broadcast on your network to locate a DHCP server. The server (running on the router) will assign the homerun an address which will allow it to communicate on your network... When you start the hd homerun client (or other media client) on the MAC or PC it will scan the network, locate the hd homerun and establish a connection to it over the local IP network.

So to recap, the homerun receives digital OTA broadcasts from the antenna and converts that signal to IP protocol. The hd homerun client software that you install and run on your PC (this same technology comes packaged with Windows Mediea Center) scans for the receiver when you start it up and makes a connection to the receiver. Once the connection is made the software provides a channel manager, volume control, DVR..etc...that you can use as an interface. I have a TV connected to a PC in the TV room. I run Windows media center to receive the OTA signal through the homerun and I also use the browser to read the paper, stream Charlie Rose or Hulu etc...

I don't think the hd homerun supports satellite antenna signals ..it does support cable and regular digital TV antennas. There may be something out there though that does...so look around.

Hope this helps you ....and good luck with it.

mikim · Aug 3, 2012

So Don -- I'm assuming you went with Zoch for internet and are replacing satellite tv with a (gasp) FREE ota antenna? Your coax for the LR tv should be in the attic? And the antenna is hooked to it? What about just splitting that up in the attic and run coax down an inside wall in the bedroom? -- course you'll have to run it under the baseboard to get it to the outside wall.

KTurner · Aug 3, 2012

txdon said:
Is there a wireless router that I can connect an outside HDTV antenna, that sends the HDTV signal to televisions throughout the house?

I have a large outside antenna which is receiving a good HDTV signal. I was hopping not to have to run coaxial cable to the different rooms because some are outside foam walls.

THANKS!

If I were you, I'd really try hard to get the wiring to work somehow. Even if it meant running the cable down the outside of the wall (inside the room) with a piece of trim covering it. This will be the cheapest, use the least power, give the best quality and be the most convenient. An HDTV signal is 'big' and there are a bunch of different ones. I doubt there's anything out there to re-broadcast them natively. This means selecting a channel and re-broadcasting it somehow. If you re-broadcast it as a OTA tv signal, your other TVs should pick it up fine. If you somehow convert it (IP or Audio/video) then you'd need some sort of receiver/converter at each of your TVs to get the signal back into a format they understand. This could force you to tune all TVs in the house to the same channel, unless the tuner hooked to the antenna was capable of tuning and re-broadcasting multiple channels at once. And then you need some way (rf remote control?) to control the remote tuner/converter from around the house, possibly multiple ones unless you'd carry the one from room to room.

If you can get wiring to work, none of that is needed, except maybe a signal booster. Each TV can tune to different channels using the controls for that TV. No quality degradation due to conversions. No, or almost no, extra equipment to purchase, maintain and power.

Keith

cdaigle430 · Aug 3, 2012

keegs said:
IP is the protocol that's used by your PC to talk to the internet and other nodes on your local network...eg. printers, appliances, other pc's, the router...etc.

Typically wireless routers also run DHCP services which provides IP addressing to nodes on your local network that are set up to be DHCP clients (a common network configuration).

Typically a home wireless router has some extra RJ45 ports on the back. You need to run a physical connection from the RJ45 port on the back of the homerun to an available port on the wireless router.

When you turn on the homerun (which is set up with a DHCP client config), it will broadcast on your network to locate a DHCP server. The server (running on the router) will assign the homerun an address which will allow it to communicate on your network... When you start the hd homerun client (or other media client) on the MAC or PC it will scan the network, locate the hd homerun and establish a connection to it over the local IP network.

So to recap, the homerun receives digital OTA broadcasts from the antenna and converts that signal to IP protocol. The hd homerun client software that you install and run on your PC (this same technology comes packaged with Windows Mediea Center) scans for the receiver when you start it up and makes a connection to the receiver. Once the connection is made the software provides a channel manager, volume control, DVR..etc...that you can use as an interface. I have a TV connected to a PC in the TV room. I run Windows media center to receive the OTA signal through the homerun and I also use the browser to read the paper, stream Charlie Rose or Hulu etc...

I don't think the hd homerun supports satellite antenna signals ..it does support cable and regular digital TV antennas. There may be something out there though that does...so look around.

Hope this helps you ....and good luck with it.

Sure you can, here is just one gadget you can do with this;

Amazon.com: HAVA Titanium HD TV Device with Wi-Fi: Electronics

Thinking of buying a couple.