> 1. FireTv - I saw I can side load kodi and I got this to work. Does this have any problems or can it output from tvh HD or 4K HD?
> 2. Roku or Raspberry Pi 4 - Can this output in hd or 4k and actually not have a slow ui? How useable are those devices?
Kodi on a Raspberry Pi is highly usable, the earlier Pi 2 & Pi3 models work fine. A Pi4 can give you 4K & will work fine.
Don't know about the other hardware.
> Software Q's:
> 3. Transcoding Jobs and/or transcoding - I understand it changes the format of the file, does this help me? Is this something where tvh records something and then optimizes it? Do I need to transcode coming from HDHomerun?
You might want to transcode depending on circumstances. For example if your digital TV is transmitted in MPEG-2 you might want to transcode to MP4 to save disk space. The type of tuner you use will have no impact on this. If you're happy with the format your TV is transmitted in, there's no need to transcode.
> 4. Is the timeshift or live tv buffer size configurable?
Yes.
> 5. Any problems with running inside a vm? My source would be from the network the hdhomerun.
Should not be a problem. FYI A Pi4 can run TVH with hardly any impact on CPU.
> WAF Q's:
> 5. A movie is being recorded from 9 - 11:30, If I come home at 10:30 can I start playing the recording from the beginning while its still being recorded?
Yes.
> 6. Watching live tv and all other tuners are recording - A scheduled show is about to start and needs the tuner I am using to watch live tv. What happens?
Depends. If the scheduled show is on a mux used by one of the currently used tuners, the recording will work. If the recording needs a mux that is not currently tuned, and no more tuners are available, the recording will fail.
Don't know what things are like where you are, but where I live most TV is available via IPTV as well as OTA. In which case it's possible to configure the same channel on OTA and IPTV [with different priorities], and TVH will fall back to IPTV if a tuner isn't available for OTA.
> 7. fast forwarding, rewinding with tvh being on different server, does it work good?
No problem.
> 8. How snappy is menus and guides with tvh being remote?
A remote TVH doesn't impact UI performance.
I suppose it might be possible to run into performance issues if you had a guide with thousands of channels, but:
a) You'll never watch that many - better to pare it down to what you use.
b) The TVH Web interface is more usable for accessing a large EPG anyway.
> Possible Setups:
> A.
> Load VM on hp server with tvh as backend.
> Use FireTv Kodi app to access tvh
> Kodi on Raspberry Pi, maybe buy another if it works good.
> buy HDHomeRun Prime
You could do this, if the server is running anyway. Why a VM? Would only be necessary if the server isn't running Linux.
You could also run TVH on a Raspberry Pi that you're using for Kodi.