hey everybody it's Lon Seidman and we're back
with our little Raspberry Pi cable box
here because a lot of folks were curious
if you could use a TV remote with this
set up here without having to use the
smartphone remote and if your TV
supports HDMI CEC it will work I hooked
it up to my samsung TV here and as you
can see I am browsing through the HD
homerun interface with my regular
Samsung remotes everything seems to be
working as you would expect it to which
is great one thing and I'm noticing that
I have it working over Wi-Fi right now a
Wi-Fi really is not the ideal scenario
here especially if you're pulling in
over-the-air broadcast so this is coming
over my cable system but this is one of
the stations that my cable system
doesn't convert to mpeg-4 so this is
essentially just like it would be if I
was pulling it down over-the-air and one
of the things that I'm noticing is that
I am starting to see some delays and
slowdowns that I wasn't getting with and
some jitteriness also that I wasn't
getting with the device hooked up via
ethernet so I would strongly suggest
that if you are doing this cord cutting
setup that you try to get Ethernet in
there because you can see right now
already rebuffering this station here
just having a hard time keeping up with
the Wi-Fi these little boxes only have
wireless n so if you have wireless AC
you might do a little better but it will
be hit or miss depending on how much
Wi-Fi traffic is on your network so my
advice would be to stick to Ethernet if
you can I've got a lot of videos
detailing how I was using MOCA to extend
the network to get my Ethernet into
places where I didn't have an Ethernet
jack but I did have a cable TV jack so
that's some way to improve the situation
but there you go you can see you can use
your regular remote via hdmi cec and you
can do all the things that you would
typically do with a remote here but with
your $35 cable DVR box this is a LAN
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