Customer Ratings & Reviews

Don't pay the monthly service unless you want the channels they offer. Go buy lifetime PLEX membership and enjoy the full DVR function that combining these two product can provide. Very very please with everything.

Works great with plex. Get a good out door antenna.

Tuners work great and pull in the stations. Setup is a little cumbersome, software is just average

Good product for OTA TV. Will recommend with no cable.

Good concept saves me a few bucks for channels I cant get.

The good: The setup to just plug and go is easy, and the apps they have work on Win7, Win10, Android no problem. I think the interface is really nice. The bad: Setting up a connection with a NAS connection for the DVR license was painful, especially if you use FreeNAS for a home server. I'm guessing this is why they offer their own network storage solutions years later. The picture quality is worse through the app than through the antenna at the same point. Very blocky, more cut out distortions. Maybe it was my unit, maybe it's a result of poor transcoding... I'm not sure. I tried upgrading the firmware and it did not help. I found the unit can run surprisingly hot, much like older Roku boxes. Make sure you leave it some airflow. My unit died after about 2 years. Maybe mine was a lemon, but I think it performed poorly overall and I used it less and less as time went on. I was kind of sad when they dropped the cable channel service due to legal reasons. When it was available, it worked perfectly, and seamless with the local channels. I'll try the Scribe. Hopefully the new hardware, native storage, and lack of transcoding fixes the woes I had with this model.

With an antenna in the attic feeding a distribution amplifier, this unit does a good job of receiving stations nearly 60 miles away. The HDHomeRun app. is quirky, e.g. you can't assess signal strength from within the app. For that, you need to point your Web browser the unit's address on your LAN, then investigate "Tuner Status". It would be nice if this information were accessible through the app, similar to what you can do with a discrete TV. Also, the aforementioned built-in Web server should contain help pages, so you can understand the meaning of various settings, e.g. "Transcode Profile". These are, admittedly, nitpicks. Overall, I am satisfied with the unit.