Saorview/Freeview via Internet?

Shefwedfan

Hi,

I am just wondering is there an easy way to get freeview/saorview via Internet. My mother in law is moved into new house and she just has internet/phone and has standard ariel which gives Saorview but is really dodgy

I was thinking of getting a box to stream via internet. Now I do have my own Kodi box and I use my own menu system but it is a bit too messy to be honest for her as she is older.

Is there an option available? Dont want to be spending huge money either....

Thanks

*Please note this is only for Saorview/Freeview. I am not asking about getting access to sports or anything like that

icdg

Even providing a stream of a FTA channel online is illegal, if it hasn't been authorised by the rights holder. They may not have cleared some programmes for online streaming, for example.

To the best of my knowledge the only legal online streams of Irish terrestrial channels are the ones at www.horizon.tv and they are for Virgin Media customers only.

Shefwedfan

icdg wrote: »

Even providing a stream of a FTA channel online is illegal, if it hasn't been authorised by the rights holder. They may not have cleared some programmes for online streaming, for example.

To the best of my knowledge the only legal online streams of Irish terrestrial channels are the ones at www.horizon.tv and they are for Virgin Media customers only.

Sorry was not aware, how does FilmOn work? there is even an app for it now on iOS?

cc

never used them but a quick search threw ibox up

Shefwedfan

I also found
https://www.aertv.ie

It is interesting there is companies doing this, I wondering is there a free service?

hahaha

Thurston?

Shefwedfan wrote: »

... My mother in law is moved into new house and she just has internet/phone and has standard ariel which gives Saorview but is really dodgy

By 'standard aerial', do you mean an indoor set-top type thing? A modest outdoor aerial would probably be fine for Saorview, maybe a satellite dish (+ maybe receiver, TV might have integrated sat. tuner) for UK channels.

What part of the country are we talking about here, as some parts have decent UK terrestrial reception.

Shefwedfan

Thurston? wrote: »

By 'standard aerial', do you mean an indoor set-top type thing? A modest outdoor aerial would probably be fine for Saorview, maybe a satellite dish (+ maybe receiver, TV might have integrated sat. tuner) for UK channels.

What part of the country are we talking about here, as some parts have decent UK terrestrial reception.

Yes it is little thing on top of TV.....she gets RTE 1 and 2 but it is dodgy

The outdoor aerial might be an issue as she is in apartment with duplex above her. none of the rest of the apartments/houses in complex have aerial. From what I can see she would need to put onto back of house as front would be rejected straight off

She backs onto a large green area which is accessed by everyone so everyone would see and that could cause issue as well. She has only moved in and doesnt want to cause a fuss so I was thinking if I could get something via internet then she would be sorted.

Based in Dublin 15

Thurston?

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Yes it is little thing on top of TV.....she gets RTE 1 and 2 but it is dodgy

The outdoor aerial might be an issue as she is in apartment with duplex above her. none of the rest of the apartments/houses in complex have aerial.

... She has only moved in and doesnt want to cause a fuss so I was thinking if I could get something via internet then she would be sorted.

Based in Dublin 15

Yeah, a communal setup is best for apartment blocks, with a single satellite dish &/or terrestrial aerial feeding everyone. (Would be a dish for UK at that location.)

Can't really help on the internet front, though would say my experience (of other peoples' setups) would tend to mirror your own, in terms of menus etc.

Capt'n Midnight

Shefwedfan wrote: »

Yes it is little thing on top of TV.....she gets RTE 1 and 2 but it is dodgy
...

Based in Dublin 15

In general most of them are dodgy. Lidl did an amplified one for a tenner a while back that was pleasantly surprising.

Most of what's sold is compete rubbish. Crack open the fancy shaped plastic antenna cover and likely as not you'll find just a wire.

Rabbits ears worked in the past when telly was on VHF. Our TV is now on UHF only. Anything that looks like rabbits ears or says FM or VHF is a compete waste of time and money.


Avoid anything that says "for digital tv" as the only difference is paying extra for the word "digital", (It's an analog signal that goes into the tuner and all the amplification and tuning and down conversion and demodulation is analog, only then you start to get the extraction of the digital signal. /RANT)

D15 means you are looking for Kippure (or if blocked Three Rock) out of a south facing window.

But since she has a house just stick up a satellite dish, in the back garden if necessary, and TV aerial and get freesat / saorview properly. Since the TV aerial needs to point south it can go on the same bracket as the dish. I can remember when I had a tiny set top aerial and was using the dish as a reflector until I got a proper one.

She already has Saorview so I'd recommend a proper Freesat box and not to bother with the Linux boxes or the combo boxes. Freesat box re-tunes itself and does updates if it's idle around 3am so there's no messing about. The hardest part is "that's the Irish remote control, and that's the English one"

Capt'n Midnight

Is the house rented ?

If so you you may be able to stick a satellite dish on a large paving slab in the back garden

And you can use a bigger indoor aerial something about two foot long perhaps

There's a Saoriew Connect box coming out which offers catch up TV for the Irish channels. But they still haven't released all the details, but if it's based on the technology the UK use then it will need an active signal to work, uses it to get the time or somesuch.

Shefwedfan

House is bought but is within a community. The front you cannot change as this would affect the look of the complex and as mentioned the back is into a garden which everyone uses. I do not think they would like a big sat dish/antenna stuck up

Each of the house/apartments are supplied with Virgin points in the room so you are supposed to use them but she doesnt want the extra expense for just getting the Saorview channels.

Would either of these be any good?
http://www.powercity.ie/index.php?par=30-72-600585&action=moreinfo

http://www.powercity.ie/index.php?par=30-72-252379&action=moreinfo