So I just bought one of these and it should be delivered today. I also didn’t know about tunarr and the idea of making my own channels is like catnip so this little maneuver is gonna cost me 51 years of my spare time.
So i did it, even though I’m supposed to be working on a couple papers for school on business ethics. I bought a tuner and set up a tunarr container. I made a couple of fake channels using content from my library: a channel that plays horror movies 24/7 and a channel that plays action movies 24/7, mostly just for testing. Then I got an antenna, $30 from Target and since I live in a big-ish city, I am getting 23 channels at good quality. Pretty nice.
The other kinda fun thing I did was make a movie trailers channel. My dad likes trailers and I have him set up to be able to connect to my server from a couple hundred miles away. He never goes to the movies anymore and with ads being horrendous on Youtube who the hell is going to sit there and watch movie trailers one after another. So I made a simple script that uses yt-dlp to go out and grab movie trailers from the rotten tomatoes trailers channel, 40 at a time, which I then have set up as a library, and then also as a channel that simply plays them nonstop. The guide for all of this is XMLTV and I set up a lineup container for handling the over-the-air channel guide info. Pretty easy project and a lot of fun. I admit, I’m not going to sit here and watch the gilmore girls, rizzoli and isles, or pawn stars every day, but I watch a lot of sports so this will def come in handy during playoffs.
So I just bought one of these and it should be delivered today. I also didn’t know about tunarr and the idea of making my own channels is like catnip so this little maneuver is gonna cost me 51 years of my spare time.
So i did it, even though I’m supposed to be working on a couple papers for school on business ethics. I bought a tuner and set up a tunarr container. I made a couple of fake channels using content from my library: a channel that plays horror movies 24/7 and a channel that plays action movies 24/7, mostly just for testing. Then I got an antenna, $30 from Target and since I live in a big-ish city, I am getting 23 channels at good quality. Pretty nice.
The other kinda fun thing I did was make a movie trailers channel. My dad likes trailers and I have him set up to be able to connect to my server from a couple hundred miles away. He never goes to the movies anymore and with ads being horrendous on Youtube who the hell is going to sit there and watch movie trailers one after another. So I made a simple script that uses yt-dlp to go out and grab movie trailers from the rotten tomatoes trailers channel, 40 at a time, which I then have set up as a library, and then also as a channel that simply plays them nonstop. The guide for all of this is XMLTV and I set up a lineup container for handling the over-the-air channel guide info. Pretty easy project and a lot of fun. I admit, I’m not going to sit here and watch the gilmore girls, rizzoli and isles, or pawn stars every day, but I watch a lot of sports so this will def come in handy during playoffs.