Hello all,
I went through last night and setup Tvheadend to work with my OTA antenna and will soon be adding my IPTV service to it. I've got that tied into my Plex installation nicely, so I can view my channels in Plex with the LiveTVH plugin. The only problem with this is the length of time it takes to get to my channels and start watching TV.
Back when I had cable, it was nice to immediately turn on my TV and my channels were waiting for me. The news was already on, I just hit power, and bam, news. Now, I have to turn my TV on, go into the Vizio casting options, open up Plex, wait for it to load, go into my plugins, go into LiveTVH, hopefully it doesn't time out and make me have to refresh causing more waiting, and then finally choose the right channel, click it, and wait for it to load. It can sometimes take up to 5 minutes to get to viewing a stream, when before, with the luxury (is it really?) of having cable TV, I'd press power and the TV was just on.
With all of that said, is there any box out there that I can buy where it'll act as a sort of "cable box" so that it receives channels from Tvheadend, and then displays them on my TV in a way where I just power it on and flip between channels as I used to do? I've never seen anything like it, nor have I heard of it, and I definitely don't want anything ungodly expensive either.
Thanks for any info you could provide!