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Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Post by sphars »

oidar wrote: post #9

I've been thinking about making something like this, but for our actual TV. I just want to it to change channels and not think about what is playing. I want my little one to not have to deal with crazy advertisements, but get the benefit of preprogrammed TV. The current batch of solutions for this are: 1) Hardware modulators. This can get pricey, but it is basically the most like regular TV. 2) Kodi + PseudoTV. 3) Er…

I'd be interested in doing something similar for my toddler. All I've done so far is that when a specific YouTube channel has new episodes, I just download with yt-dlp and throw them on my Plex server. All to avoid advertising and the "recommendations" when using the YT app.

If you work something out, I'd love to read about it.

Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Post by agentwiggles »

sphars wrote: post #11
oidar wrote: post #9

I've been thinking about making something like this, but for our actual TV. I just want to it to change channels and not think about what is playing. I want my little one to not have to deal with crazy advertisements, but get the benefit of preprogrammed TV. The current batch of solutions for this are: 1) Hardware modulators. This can get pricey, but it is basically the most like regular TV. 2) Kodi + PseudoTV. 3) Er…

I'd be interested in doing something similar for my toddler. All I've done so far is that when a specific YouTube channel has new episodes, I just download with yt-dlp and throw them on my Plex server. All to avoid advertising and the "recommendations" when using the YT app. If you work something out, I'd love to read about it.

You might be interested in the FakeTV project on Github, specifically "Psuedo Channel". I found it a while back searching about basically the same idea (i.e. "how could I simulate something like TV but provide all my own content").

I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems to be an implementation of the basic idea, and it's in Python, and we're on HN, which means it's a fair bet that you could figure out how to tweak it to your specific desires if you wanted to!

https://github.com/FakeTV https://github.com/FakeTV/pseudo-channel

Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Post by sphars »

agentwiggles wrote: post #12
sphars wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be interested in doing something similar for my toddler. All I've done so far is that when a specific YouTube channel has new episodes, I just download with yt-dlp and throw them on my Plex server. All to avoid advertising and the "recommendations" when using the YT app. If you work something out, I'd love to read about it.

You might be interested in the FakeTV project on Github, specifically "Psuedo Channel". I found it a while back searching about basically the same idea (i.e. "how could I simulate something like TV but provide all my own content"). I haven't tried it out yet, but it seems to be an implementation of the basic idea, and it's in Python, and we're on HN, which means it's a fair bet that you could figure out how to tweak…

Thank you, I'll check it out!

Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

#14

Post by epakai »

This would be cool if I could broadcast to our set top boxes. My folks don't get along with streaming interfaces, but they can flip to a channel.

edit: I might have it totally wrong, but our STB is QAM/IP. With a QAM modulator it might be possible to transmit on the coax segment, and have the provider's box decode it. The modulators are pricy though, and I'm not sure about putting our own signal back down the (fios) coax segment.

Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Post by goosedragons »

epakai wrote: post #14

This would be cool if I could broadcast to our set top boxes. My folks don't get along with streaming interfaces, but they can flip to a channel. edit: I might have it totally wrong, but our STB is QAM/IP. With a QAM modulator it might be possible to transmit on the coax segment, and have the provider's box decode it. The modulators are pricy though, and I'm not sure about putting our own signal back down the (fios)…

Nobody make an open source IPTV STB-style interface yet for something like the RPi? I imagine it'd be easier to make something like that, have a bunch of "channels" and it just changes the IP address of the video. Some of the earliest IPTV providers actually had unencrypted streams so it's not even that different!

Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Post by krapp »

goosedragons wrote: post #15
epakai wrote: post #14

This would be cool if I could broadcast to our set top boxes. My folks don't get along with streaming interfaces, but they can flip to a channel. edit: I might have it totally wrong, but our STB is QAM/IP. With a QAM modulator it might be possible to transmit on the coax segment, and have the provider's box decode it. The modulators are pricy though, and I'm not sure about putting our own signal back down the (fios)…

Nobody make an open source IPTV STB-style interface yet for something like the RPi? I imagine it'd be easier to make something like that, have a bunch of "channels" and it just changes the IP address of the video. Some of the earliest IPTV providers actually had unencrypted streams so it's not even that different!

My phone will let me stream whatever I'm watching to a tv set, so I assume any modern smartphone/tv combination will allow that.

Re: Run Your Own Television Network in the Browser with Channel Two

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Post by epakai »

goosedragons wrote: post #15
epakai wrote: post #14

This would be cool if I could broadcast to our set top boxes. My folks don't get along with streaming interfaces, but they can flip to a channel. edit: I might have it totally wrong, but our STB is QAM/IP. With a QAM modulator it might be possible to transmit on the coax segment, and have the provider's box decode it. The modulators are pricy though, and I'm not sure about putting our own signal back down the (fios)…

Nobody make an open source IPTV STB-style interface yet for something like the RPi? I imagine it'd be easier to make something like that, have a bunch of "channels" and it just changes the IP address of the video. Some of the earliest IPTV providers actually had unencrypted streams so it's not even that different!

They get lost at switching the TV input to another device. Just injecting a QAM channel would be something they could use.
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