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Hi I need help with something weird Anonymous 10/22/2024 (Tue) 17:35:18 No. 16378
so my grandmother who is really sweet is currently spending 200 a month on cable tv, she cant use internet tv and shes too old to learn how basically i want to broadcast internet tv via analogue signals so she can flick through channels using a computer to bounce the signal to an old tv,how do I do this, and how do i do this as legally as possible? and to hiroyuki for adding a 15 minute countdown for not submitting to the botnet; KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF KILL YOURSELF --- I posted this to halfchan and it was deleted and me banned for "not being tech related", my appeal is that the janny should kill himself, I hope I can get some help here and that janny dies painfully
Anonymous 10/24/2024 (Thu) 10:03:14 No. 16394
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check out kodi and their IPTV stuff. There's also plugins for some national tv streaming services e.g. retrospect.
Anonymous 10/24/2024 (Thu) 19:54:42 No. 16398
>>16394 Will do but I was hoping to avoid modern tech, I really wanted to use some kind of analogue repeater or something so I could make an actual channel (I even have ads from the 60s saved) to make her feel comfy
Anonymous 10/24/2024 (Thu) 20:34:02 No. 16399
>>16378 So basically you want her to be able to use her TV like she does now, but with a computer (streamed or media server) as backend? I see 2 options >study up on television signals and hack out some way to "broadcast" multiple channels at once via cable Signal processing libraries might help, but that's still a lot of effort >give her a new programmable remote that interacts with both the TV set and your media center, write some custom interactions so it feels more like TV Still a big project, but more manageable IMO
Anonymous 10/24/2024 (Thu) 21:13:46 No. 16400
>>16399 First option is the goal, I just don't understand the legal interference levels and how to achieve it or how to broadcast through the aux cable, I know there is old oddball tech for repeating vcr signals I could probably use but then I'd need to figure out getting the computer signal to the vcr I'd like to be spoonfed, you can call me a faggot for it if you want but grandma is poor and this is fucking up her life, but she wont just quit cable because the alzheimers is kicking in
Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 05:30:43 No. 16402
>>16400 https://youtu.be/CtPHZ5pG6nA https://youtu.be/ot-gYEIWNJs https://youtu.be/CtPHZ5pG6nA https://youtu.be/W7m7OW2xrJE It might cost you a few hundred bucks for one channel and a few thousand for multiple channels. You'll also probably want some way to reset the devices remotely, maybe a smart plug to toggle power or a kvm device or vnc/spice server to remote control, exposing only a vpn server eith a secure password through her router. You'll have to figure out if you want to loop episodes on a channel on a timetable or pass through a cheaper internet tv plan with a script to make sure its reloaded and relogged in case of errors.
Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 06:09:00 No. 16404
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Or either, really. Also an RF gain measuring tool or something was recommended if I recall, you'll have to do further reading depending on how much you want to do. Don't know if this book can help or not but it might be a useful reference.
Anonymous 10/25/2024 (Fri) 06:37:58 No. 16405
Thinking about it more, some modern cable tv providers might do all the work for you with an ethernet-in coax-out tv box that they'd expect you to plug into router. If you live in a city your cable tv rates are probably lower and you can find a way to vpn that device back to your home network with a middleman router. Don't know since I never bought cable.
Anonymous 10/26/2024 (Sat) 07:07:26 No. 16418
>>16402 This is exactly what I need thank you!
Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 20:26:04 No. 16459
alright we have 300 budgeted for it and a plan, I'll post updates here when I'm building it in a few weeks if anyone cares Another question for now though, is there any software I could use to make a tv plan - eg; at 10:00am a random episode of murder she wrote plays for 30 minutes, cutting into ad breaks with random wholesome 70s ads 5 times, then 30 minutes of random episode of gilligans island doing the same thing etc, she doesn't need it but I bet it'd make her smile
Anonymous 11/04/2024 (Mon) 04:28:49 No. 16465
>>16459 I can't think of any unless you script it yourself, maybe with some playlist api or command for whatever video player you end up using. Even just peeking at a playlist file in a text editor, making a playlist to load each day but scrambling the episode numbers from a decrementing pool until every episode is accounted for might work. It's out of my wheelhouse but maybe someone else or an AI can help.
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