Posted August 5, 2018 So I was thinking of building a new gaming PC. Alright cool, but then I was thinking I could also do a plex server. The thing is, we are cord cutters. While we do sub to Netflix and Hulu Live TV, we have data caps, due to Comcast having no competition in Michigan. So I have been eyeing these HD Home Run products for a while. Here is my situation. We live in a two story house plus half basement. The TV antennas on the ground floor, well they dont work very well, due to several factors trees and the sound proof wall for the express way, I94 is in my backyard. The antennas on the second floor at least the one in my room on the north side of the house gets decent reception. Some days some channels wont come in, but most days I get them all, 30 or 40 ish. I figure I could share my good forturne with the other TV's in the house, mainly the ones on the ground floor. We have 2 Fire TV sticks and 2 Roku sticks, the newest Roku stick bought yesterday and does up to 4K. Great, but we dont have 4K TV's yet. My question's, 1) How well does the Live stuff work on the Fire TV and Roku? I seen on the video I watched about it Apple TV and on the PC seemed to have the most features as of right now, but I need to know about the other platforms. 2) How well do the HD home runs work off WiFi? While the unit I intend to buy will be wired to the router, my dads room is on the south side of the house and gets some channels I dont. We may buy a second box to get those channels, and that box wont be able to be wired in. 3) Can multiple people watch the same recording/video? Some of the shows we will be recording are watched by me and my dad. Not always at the same time. 4) How much Hard disk space would you recommend? I intend on getting like a 6-8 TB hard disk to replace my two aging 1 TB hard disks. My plan was one for recording and the other for digitized movies. 5) Besides the $119 life time fee, are there any others? I know on some products you have to pay for the Guide. 6) Any one know when the 6 tuner unit will be coming out? I heard about it and dont see any info on the site. 7) What kind of hardware do you think I need? Like am I looking at a 6 to 8 core CPU? How much RAM? As far as RAM goes right now Im sitting at 45% of 16 Gigs, with normal use. So would 16 Gigs be good? 8) Any other info would be good. I just want to sit back and watch the world burn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted August 5, 2018 I can only answer part of questions. 2. This depends on your wifi solution you have? What AP or router(combo) you have? 3. Dependable on server/computer specs, does the stream have to be transcoded, if not it will require little to no cpu usage? 4. This is dependable of how much tv show/movies you want to store, you can always add more hard drive later. 5. I would get lifetime for plex, I never really regretted it as most of family/friend uses and it supports the devs. 7. This is dependable, if going just direct play/stream you don't really need a strong cpu. You don't need much ram for plex, from my experience but 16GB is should be minimal for any machine. You should read this below guides for plex. Also plex doesn't really have any support apart from forums/reedit which alot of question go unanswered so you might have google around or fiddle around with settings etc. https://support.plex.tv/articles/201774043-what-kind-of-cpu-do-i-need-for-my-server/ Magical Pineapples