Watching RTE and BBC in Italy

kah22

I live in the North but will be in Italy for a little over a month. I'd like to keep up with what is happening at home and wonder how do I watch RTE, BBC, and other local television stations for that matter, while in Italy.

I have a Getflix subscription which to now I've used exclusively to watch Netflix but was wondering if I can use it to watch local television while abroad. If so how do I set it up, like to give me an a,b,c of how it's done?

As always many thanks for your help

winston_1

kah22 wrote: »

I live in the North but will be in Italy for a little over a month. I'd like to keep up with what is happening at home and wonder how do I watch RTE, BBC, and other local television stations for that matter, while in Italy.

I have a Getflix subscription which to now I've used exclusively to watch Netflix but was wondering if I can use it to watch local television while abroad. If so how do I set it up, like to give me an a,b,c of how it's done?

As always many thanks for your help

Slingbox.

thebiglad

You can access UK FTA channels on a service such a filmon.tv - either with an App (Ipad) or directly from the internet.

icdg

Usual warning that we can't allow discussion of how to circumvent geoblocking or how to access illegal streams.. Though in the case of the BBC there may be legal ways of watching depending on where you are living.

vienne86

winston_1 wrote: »

Slingbox.

I have one of these, and have had for years. It is just a way of accessing a TV box over the internet. There is now a free android app which I have installed on my phone - it works great for me.

Capt'n Midnight

You won't get Saorsat beyond the western extremities of Wales. Unreal digital cliff , perfect reception with a hand held 40cm dish and then 10km down the road nothing because of the spot beam over Paris.

The only reason BBC is FTA is because of the tight beam covering the British Isles, the unpopulated half of Iceland and slivers of France. Check out the UK ex-pat's for SKY coverage, for the transponders carrying the channels you want. You'd need a large dish and a Sky subscription.

Then there's watching the BBC online . Bit of a disconnect.
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-33620341
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32718259

PabloAndRoy

Depending on your home internet upstream speed, you could do this with a raspberry pi, tvheadend and a cheap USB dvb-t/t2 tuner off amazon. Make sure the tuner is supported by linux http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_USB_Devices and is HD capable if you need that.

You set up the whole thing for about 70 euro. For high def you would need at least 11mbps upstream. The trickiest part would be getting DDNS and the port forwarding to work. But if you are handy with computers/networking, its not that hard.

It also means that you can watch your FTA channels anywhere in your house over the local wifi. There are apps for android, iOS, Mac, etc .. or put a pi on each tv (this is what I am doing) One caveat, if you want to watch multiple streams simultaneously, you will need one tuner per mux, or one per tv, which ever is the smaller number to guarantee 100% availability. So 2 tuners will guarantee 2 TVs will always get a requested channel, etc. (look here for the muxes https://ukfree.tv/transmitters/multiplexes).

I am building this into our home at the moment and plan to access this system from our campervan when we go touring around Europe next summer.

Jpmarn

I have a Slingbox attached to my Sky box. I normally use it to watch the sky in other rooms or even use in the same room on a laptop while watching another channel on the TV set. With a fairly decent broadband the slingbox allows you to stream out on to the Internet and that includes abroad. I found that most hotel WiFi systems don't have enough bandwidth to stream videos from the slingbox at home or any of the players from tv stations.