What personal IPTV encoder/decoder hardware?

by stevenwri

I want to encode TV at home and watch it while away in my caravan. Can anyone suggest some hardware (an encoder and decoder) that will allow this?

I've searched but am overwhelmed, and nothing that I've found seems to meet my use case.

I imagine that I need a device at home that accepts HDMI and has an IR sender to change the TV channel, in the caravan I presumably need a second device that outputs the HDMI and has an IR receiver.

The use case is to watch my home SkyQ in the caravan without needing to install a mobile dish with a wideband lnb and draining my battery while leaving the SkyQ box powered on to record shows. Instead, I'd leave the SkyQ at home and connect to it over the internet with a low power receiver in the caravan as required. Unfortunately, I know zero about IPTV and have no idea what to buy.. I did see something about a Slingbox but have no idea if that's a good option or not. Can you help?

hboinay

Slingbox does exactly that, you'll need strong internet both at home (especially upload bandwidth) and while camping though. And it's a pretty old technology so it can be sluggish at times.

s0ulslack

Why not something like jellyfin? Like the other dude said, its going to require some bandwidth

stevenwri

Thanks for the replies yesterday. I've looked at Jellyfin and spent more time on Slingbox.

The Jellyfin platform looks great but, I can't see how to use an HDMI input or send IR signals to change the channel on the satellite box. Could anyone share a link?

Slingbox looks ideal but as you mention its quite old and many people are complaining that the client appears to have ads inserted.

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Is there anything reasonably new and off-the-shelf that can be purchased? I found a great many HDMI extenders that pass IR but all the encoders/decoders that I found did not.

JonDoe_1297bsa

I would recommend a Sat-IP-Server. (Works also with DVB-C or DVB-T(2).) Just connect the server with you dish and setup a VPN back home. SATIP is an open standard and at the end you get a standard M3U file for your Player Software.

I deeply recommend DigitalDevice Octopus NET v2. The box will also decrypt encrypted Channels (via CI). Again, works like charm for years.

In case you run cable, just get a AVM Cable Fritzbox incl. that feature.

I Hope I could help.