Best TV Tuner for Vero/OSMC

This is the one I use in Scotland - it was a bugger to learn how to set up, but after a while, I learned and it’s working very well. I have a Pi 2 as the back end into which this is plugged, and all Kodi installations in my house talk to it. I find this a >very< stable setup : TV just works, and all the time. I have a Pi 3 as a front end velcro’d to the back of my telly, and have movies, Tv shows, Streams and live TV in Kodi all on my home screen, so everything is in one place, with one remote control. It is worth the effort to use and learn how to set this up - though the drivers may be a problem. I had to add the following, and below is an excerpt:

  1. _wget https://raw.github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/master/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw_

  2. sudo mv dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-02.fw

  3. _wget https://raw.github.com/OpenELEC/dvb-firmware/master/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw_

  4. sudo mv dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw /lib/firmware/dvb-demod-si2168-b40-01.fw

  5. Install Tvheadend on Raspberry Pi

  6. Now add the Tvheadend repo’s key, the repo itself, update packages and install Tvheadend

  7. sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

  8. sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61

  9. echo “deb https://dl.bintray.com/tvheadend/deb jessie release” | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend

  10. sudo apt-get update

  11. sudo apt-get install tvheadend -y

  12. _During the Tvheadend installation you will be prompted for an admin username and password, choose a strong password and I advise using a non-obvious username (i.e. not admin or Administrator).

Hpe this helps : )