HDHomeRun - SERVIO 2TB DVR - Black

I own a 4 tuner HD Homerun Quatro and absolutely love it. The hardware is top notch and I would highly recommend it. This device on the other hand, not so much. Silicon Dust is an excellent maker of products. They are not great at the free software they provide. I honestly found the software to be flat out clunky. I would sum it up as it's simply not ready for primetime. This device will be great for people who use the Silicon Dust software and are happy with it. At the moment, you can't export or edit your recordings and Channels app isn't supported and they have plans to do so. The biggest downside to this products is that it only works with the HD Homerun software. The software is still not available on the AppleTV. You'll need to use a FireTV or a Roku to use it. I have FireTVs on all of my tvs in the house, but AppleTV is my go-to device. I use the Channels TV app on my AppleTV with my HD Homerun. I was hoping to avoid buying and setting up as NAS. I ended up returning this and doing exactly that. I saw some videos from Lon.tv on YouTube and ended up getting a WD PR2100 (has hardware transcoding) and use the Channels DVR and Plex as a media server. I was shocked with how easy it was to setup. Wish I would have done this a lot sooner. I can't stress enough how great the Silicon Dust products are. I hope they will turn attention to an ATSC 3.0 tuner sooner than later. Also, they really need a UI/UX designer with their software as it looks like it's made by a bunch of engineers that don't understand software design and ease-of-use.

The Servio works well as a recording device. What doesn’t work well is the HDHomeRun software. The interface is slow. Getting to the recordings page is hidden. What really made me return this was playback in the app. It was slow to load, slow to fast forward, difficult to manage and delete recordings. I returned this and went with the Channels App and Channels DVR using a NAS. Sadly the Servio is proprietary and you can’t access recordings in any app other than HDHomeRun. If you don’t hate the HDHomeRun software you won’t mind this. I’m running this with HDHomeRun Connect Quattro.

Have owned 2. The first one the electrical port was shorting out. Possibly due to moving it around. Got a second one thinking I was unlucky and didn't want to change my set up. Second one died at about 1 year. Not long enough for something that sits in the corner.