I was annoyed.Īfter setting it up I went into Plex and it was not found. There was also no download link at the time for it on the website. I trawled through the forums to find it was on the Windows Marketplace or some such and not as the instructions implied installed with the app. Yeah… where are you viewer app? There? No? There? No. It was a very short ride to having all my over-the-air channels detected (I plugged in power, ethernet cable, and that antenna I’m not particularly blown away by).īoth the printed instructions and the instructions on the website now said to run the viewer app.

The instructions said to install the setup package. SiliconDust HDHomeRun CONNECT setup That moment when you realize that you’ve been at this review for so long you can’t find any of the unboxing or install pictures and just go with a picture from something you recorded over the air. They make a slightly more expensive version that does wireless and can do hardware compression for smaller h.264 video, but I’ve got a computer sitting running for work 99% of the time so I let it handle compression via Plex. I got in on the DVR Beta before it was out in the world and decided to get something compatible with it.Īll I wanted was an over-the-air recording device. The reason I got the HDHomeRun CONNECT was because it was compatible with Plex Media Server. There are three different types of recorders sold by SiliconDust last I checked. As the second part of cord cutting I’m going to talk about the SiliconDust HDHomeRun CONNECT which I use to grab OTA TV recording.

Using plex with hdhomerun