Customer Ratings & Reviews

I've been without Local Access TV for years due to a 2017 Vizio I bought that didn't come with a tuner. Luckily, i stumbled upon this unique device that allows me to watch local access on any device connected to my internet. I have an unhealthy obsession with Antique Road Show and a few other extremely odd PBS shows, and now I can RECORD them and gleefully watch every antique that touches a curators hands. Seriously, the HDHomerun device works elegantly and appears to be made of seriously good components vs. a cheap external tuner. The device boots up right away when you install the homerun app on your devices. You can't go wrong with this thing.

After discovering an antenna in the attic of the house we bought last year, I picked up this tuner/DVR. Initial setup took longer than expected because I incorrectly assumed this has Wi-Fi support. After connecting this to a Wi-Fi/ethernet bridge I had on-hand, I was able to complete the setup. The Scribe was able to pick up all the channels listed on the FCC's DTV reception map for our address with good picture quality. That said, the first party smart TV apps are not good, lacking support for the DVR function, and the PC support is poor at best. The thing that ultimately pushed me to return this was near constant buffering, which may be attributable to the Wi-Fi/ethernet bridge in use.

The SiliconDust HDHomeRun Scribe DUO 1 TB DVR is a great OTA DVR for completing a cord cutter's arsenal to capture live TV episodes for watching at a later time, while not having to pay for cable. It comes with a years service for the HDHomeRun guide and that is $35 annually to provide the guide service. This allows for recording two shows at once and playback to many different devices. A great purchase and glad I added it to my cord cutters kit. Very nice to have the builtin 1 TB DVR on the HD HomeRun device itself.

I liked that it did not compress the video before sending over Ethernet compared to the Fire recast. However the software that interfaces to the HDHomeRun is horrible. There is no way to view a schedule of upcoming shows on multiple channels. You have to look at one channel at a time and then scroll through that channel. Also is says it works on Roku but you cannot schedule recordings over Roku or Windows 7. You can view recorded shows but not schedule. This did not work for me so I took it back and went with the Fire Recast even though it did not have as high of video quality as the HDHomeRun. The user interface was just too unusable.

The setup was very easy. The picture quality is excellent (I do have a mesh network so I don't have any bandwidth issues). The only thing is that it doesn't work well with an antenna with an amplifier. Once I switched it to a regular indoor antenna, it worked great. The interface for recordings is not superb but with a bit of getting used to, it is ok.

I have a TiVo Roamio OTA as part of my home theater, but I really watch more TV on my Mac. I had an Elgato EyeTV hybrid that served me well for years, but it’s software is not supported on Mac OS Catalina, so I had to look for a replacement. At first, I had my doubts about this HDHomeRun, but I’m glad I got it. It works great, and has some advantages over EyeTV: it has two tuners, so it’s possible to record two shows at a time, something that I couldn’t do with my old device. It also make it easier to record shows at consecutive time slots. I highly recommend this product.

This was a little tricky getting setup to use - not really much in the way of instructions, but with some hit and miss attempts I finally got it up and running. Works good with my LG OLED TV, TV syncs up without the need for a computer to use the DVR. Nice that I can record two programs at once.

setup is fast and the program is easy to understand and use, enables recording up to 14 days in advance. runs through my nvidia shield tv using the same remote. a truly quality product.

Works fantastic most of the time but still very buggy with Plex love tv/dvr most times and for what it is probably shouldn’t be more than $100

I may have to have the Geeks come out, because I have yet to be able to find the guide for the channels my new antenna brought in so that I can record. In addition, I heard that I'll have to subscribe to a service, which is fine. Still learning at age 62!

I've used Silicon Dust HD HomeRun products for many years and recommend them. The Scribe works very well with Android and Windows apps. It had a few schedule issues early on but their support was very responsive and it now reliably records scheduled programs. But Roku support is still beta and doesn't work very well. Rewind doesn't work, fast forward is very slow and jumpy. Pause works OK. I don't think there has been a new beta release since August. I'm growing impatient, my primary purpose for purchasing this was to use it with Roku to play on the TV. I can't recommend it for this purpose. If it's not better in a fairly shot term I'll have to investigate alternatives. Until then I can't recommend it for Roku users. I'll update the review after the next code release. My ratings are based on Roku, if my primary use were Android or Windows I'd rate it highly.

I bought this so I could watch local channels on several TV's. Setup was easy. You have to use the HomeRunHD app or a compatible app to watch the channels, but it works great. I can watch it on my smart tv, my tablet, or my computer.

I was unable to use this as it requires hard line access to a modem and router. I don't have this option because my apartment came wired only with Wi-Fi. The device is nice and compact and is definitely well built. The app is easy to navigate too. Really hope they come out with a model that can run on Wi-Fi.

They did not have unit at my local Best Buy. I drove 30 minutes to do the curbside pick up due to Covid-19. I did not really get it functional and working properly for about two weeks. The unit does have a 1 TB hard drive but only worked with the HD homerun app on my computer & iPad & iPhone. My main purpose was to watch programs on my Apple TV which only works with the Channels App which is a challenging set up operation and Does not allow the one terabyte storage of the HD homerun unit to be utilized you need a NAS R Dr. to hook up to your router or you need to use a computer with a lot of storage or connected to an external hard drive and your computer mistake on all the time. Which is not what I was looking for. I did get it to finally work the way I want it to you after phone calls to HD homerun. Company and a lot of online research on the Channels app on my Apple TV. It is impressive in the end for what it was purchased to do.

Easy setup. Better than fire tv recast because it works with regular cable. Wish it had Wi-Fi.

My second HDHomeRun device This allows me to record from my cable tv line. I can receive non scrambled channels, basically about 30 or so. I can record major networks off of cable and skip commercials and watch it on PC, phone or iPad thru the HDHR app. Came with a free one year sub to the channel guide for timed recording. Will purchase a years sub when the first free year is over. Highly recommended

Great product software not so much took a few days

Scanning for channels is fast and easy. Only issue was the DVR setup does not work with HDHomeRun app in Roku. It works with FireTV though. Sometimes we noticed that the video and audio was not in sync when playing back the recorded content. But you close the app and restart it again, the the sync is fine.

My antenna ($150+) picked up 20+ channels on it's own and the HDHomeRun only detected 4. Worked with support, said it was defective and got a new device - same results. Waste of time.

The device works perfectly!!!. I will most definitely recommend it to my friends.