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I've used Raspberry Pis for this, but they tended to be bulky and overkill - the "Banana Pi Zero" is what I've been using lately. Combined with a PoE splitter (some have micro-usb, you can plug directly into the board), this works great - no more coax losses!

I use one for SDR playing, and one for receiving OTA ATSC and streaming to Kodi. I suppose I could have also installed a USB hub and run them both (or more) from one board.

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Would love to know more about OTA ATSC on Raspberry/Banana Pi -- everything I read tends to say that these ARM-based boards are good for playback only.

I'm using a K-World ATSC Tuner[1] on an Orange Pi Zero[2] (not Banana Pi as previously mentioned). Armbian[3] nightly installs with no modifications, and then Mythbackend[4] is installed using apt-get.

I bound to the machine's IP instead of localhost, and then was able to enter that into Kodi, where a list of TV stations Myth found appeared. It was surprisingly easy! I haven't had any issues with stuttering or skipping when streaming to a single Kodi instance - haven't tried any more than that.

[1] https://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/KWorld_ATSC_340U

[2] http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/

[3] https://www.armbian.com/orange-pi-zero/

[4] https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythbackend

Banana Pi Zero? What board is that? (I've been experimenting with various board for a project, so genuinely interested if this isn't a typo)

I'm sorry, it's an "Orange Pi Zero"[1] that I'm using, not a "Banana Pi Zero". I've gone through so many of these dev boards that it's hard to keep them all straight!

[1] http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizero/

Ah ha, thanks - I actually own two of those! They are awesome little boards, except for the wifi which is borderline unusable.

http://www.banana-pi.org/product.html

Thanks - but which one is the zero?

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