Customer Ratings & Reviews

Horrible, horrible gui and customer service is bad

Useless black box has never transmit any service to my smart TV

I love my HD Homerun. I have media center on my PC, Surface Pro, and Xbox 360 and this is the hub of my home TV/DVR capabilities. Most of the problems I see people have with this is bad picture or other issues. You're taking a limited compressed high definition picture and are throwing it across the network. To stream to my Xbox, it's going twice over the network (HD-PC-Xbox# It's a huge demand if your network isn't up to par or just has bad settings. Wireless? My Surface Pro BARELY can manage it wirelessly. Any interference and there's artifacts and frame drops. #But the Surface Pro has a weak wireless card to begin with)

They finally have these in stores, cut the cord in the morning drove over to best buy and had live TV in the afternoon. Streams perfectly to my Nvidia Shield and MiBox. Pro: easy setup, 2 tuners, it works, Android and Windows apps are free Con: this is not really a con of the product but getting proper signal can be tricky. Silicondust provides maps on where towers are located for your zip code. Also found an Android app that displays reception on your phone in real time. Next: will need to try their DVR offering.

This will require some technical know how, great tuner.

Plugged it in, installed the Win10 app and had Live TV. Didn't need configure anything...had no idea there were over 70 local channels. Zero issues so far. Setup is mindless; if you can figure out how to set up your antenna then you're good. Win10 and Android apps are solid, they've been pushing weekly updates and bug fixes but I've had no issues thus far.

The device lacks key features to make it a viable consumer product. The lack of a signal strength meter is a huge negative. I used the app on an Apple and Google device and they both had performance and hanging issues. The interface through Roku was a joke. And good luck finding a suitable recording medium (ie. Network storage device). The lack of any decent documentation requires you to rely on the forums for setup help and troubleshooting. I do not recommend this product. Tablo is so much better.

Hello, The problem with this device is that you have to hardwire in to your router. If your router is in a difficult position (I.e basement or main floor) the chances are your antenna isn't receiving a whole lot of channels. Therefore, you would only be redistributing a few channels throughout your home over the network. Your box should have the ability to connect via Wifi similar to Airtv. I would also consider a lifetime subscription fee. Cord cutters do not like monthly subscriptions.

This is a solid tuner with a very quick and painless setup. Paired with a good antenna mounted in the right location, I'm one step closer to cutting the cord.

Setup was simple though wish didn't have to go online to do it. Also wish you could refresh the channels via the app. Interface is clean and easy to use. I got more channels by connecting antenna directly to the TV instead of through he homerun. Which I thought was strange.

I have been using a Hdhomerun connect for 3 years for OTA. Now that Silicon Dust released their $35 month cable replacement. I picked up a second box, just for Premium tv (didn't need to attach an antenna), works great. Now deciding on which DVR service to use, like that I have many choices.

This product did exactly what it claimed to do, it was super easy to set up ( 2 steps ), and it actually resulted in better reception that our antenna plugged directly into the TV (internal signal amplifier?). I would buy HD Homerun Duo again in a heartbeat.

The HD HomeRun works great for local channels, but nothing in the description said that there is an extra yearly fee to use the DVR capabilities. The whole purpose of cutting the cord is to get rid of subscriptions.

I was currently a subscriber of TiVo and had the Romeo OTA DVR. This box connects directly to your television with an HDMI cord. I do not however like the $15 a month subscription to TiVo for the channel guide. So I decided to give this a try. I connected to my gigabit Ethernet network and accessed it with my Nvidia Shield using live channels app to access it. Even with a gigabit router and all gigabit wired connections, I still found the bitrate to my Nvidia Shield through the network was not what I would have liked. It did appear to me that the TiVo picture was better especially in fast action motion like football. There does tend to be some pixelation of the datastream in fast action with the hdhomerun. I did try the hdhomerun app and found it to be user-unfriendly. As far as channel surfing and setting up recordings live channels from Google is superior for now. The only thing I didn't like about live channels from Google was that you could not watch the show you were currently recording you had to wait until the recording was over to watch it. I think in time these devices will be better but for now I went back to my TiVo roamio OTA. The DVR function there is much better and the picture is clear throughout the show. I am disappointed I really hoped I could get rid of the TiVo but I hate to say that is still a superior product

I bought this so I could watch football in the fall and it works really well. I put the HDHomeRun upstairs and the antenna near the attic for the best signal and then CAT6 runs to my home server. The phone app is decent enough, but the real benefit comes from pairing this with TVheadend for free DVR and playback via Plex (free). Pros: * Not a PCIe card, so I can co-locate it with my antenna for minimal signal loss over coaxial. * Dual Tuner * Comes with a decent phone/tablet app for live viewing Cons: * Doesn't have a Roku app, so if you want to watch on Roku it works better to cast from a PC or use a service Plex

The salesperson said that the HDHomeRun Duo would work with AppleTV which is technically correct but only through the mirroring function. There doesn’t seem to be an app that you can download so that it will work directly so, it doesn’t really. The company HD app will load into Amazon FireTV but was glichy. I couldn’t get it to change channels. By that time, I had already spent an hour or so fiddling with setups and it didn’t seem as though it was going to function as I expected so I returned it to the store. It did seem to work well on the iPad with a third party app that I paid $15 for but what I was looking for was OTA streaming to my TV’s and it didn’t do that so I returned it.

Really easy to set up and connect to both from my computer using their software as well as through Plex.

08/24/2017 I purchased this to watch OTA TV on a TV that has no cable drop nearby. Antenna is plumbed into a cable network that functions without issues on other TVs. Here’s the outcome on different devices that SiliconDust advertises as compatible with HDHomeRun: Amazon Fire Stick Gen2 - Video freezes every 5 seconds for at least one second. - Audio lags video about 1.5 seconds. This was tested on a Fire Stick that streams 1080p HD video with no issues. There are several online reviews noting this issue. Bottom line: Unusable. Windows 7 - Receives video, but no audio. This is a known issue for which SiliconDust offers three workarounds. 1. Use an HDMI device. Sorry, does not work thru an HDMI device. 2. Reconfigure the preview application in HDHomeRun Setup applications tab. There’s no applications tab in Setup. 3. Install another audio decoder – no specific steps offered. Bottom line: HDHomeRun is not plug-n-play on Windows 7; unusable. iPhone - App actually functions as designed on the iPhone. But, why one would choose to watch TV on a phone when you’re surrounded with full-sized TVs and monitors is beyond me. (Remember, this is Wi-Fi technology which basically limits its use to inside your home.) Technical Support - Still no response 24-hours after submitting a “ticket” with very detailed explanation of issues. I’m running SiliconDust’s latest firmware edition - 20170815. Streaming Rate is 13.276 Mbps. Summary: Big promises, but technology not yet developed for consumer use.

Have two of these and they work great. However, SD's firmware upgrade setup is terrible. If I just try to load drivers on a new computer, it goes and upgrades the firmware without asking. AND, there is no way to downgrade firmware if the new doesn't work for you. Many have been nailed by this. The other big issue is there is no good software support. Windows MC was quite usable and passed the "wife" test. Nothing else gets there, and the SD solution requires a subscription.

I got the 4 tuner one so I could record 4 at a time to a local external hard drive. I also got the premium service and cut the cable. It creates Mp4 files.