Product Description
Turn your Raspberry Pi into a digital TV server!
Digital terrestrial television is beginning to make inroads with many countries are switching off their analog TV broadcast. Many new television nowadays comes with integrated digital TV tuner. This TV HAT add-on board receives digital TV channels and let your Raspberry Pi stream them over a network to other devices like a smart TV, mobile phone, tablet or a PC.
This HAT supports the common DVB-T2 and DVB-T standards which are widely used in most countries. It can be used with any 40-pin Raspberry Pi boards such as Pi 3B+, Pi 3B, Pi 3A+, Pi 2 and Pi Zero WH. Pi 3B+ is highly recommended if you are watching TV on the Pi itself. You will need a UHF digital TV antenna and connect it to the RF connector on the HAT.
Looking at the software side, you can install tvheadend - an open source TV server which supports Electronic Program Guide (EPG) and Digital Video Recorder (DVR). You can use any media player software that supports TV streaming over a network. This includes Kodi, Flex and VLC.
For users in Malaysia, we have tested this TV HAT working well with myFreeview TV which already has more than 90% coverage in the country serving 12 TV channels and 6 radio channels.
Technical details:
TV tuner: Sony CXD2880
Supported TV standards: DVB-T2, DVB-T
Reception frequency: VHF III, UHF IV, UHF V
Channel bandwidth:
DVB-T2: 1.7MHz, 5MHz, 6MHz, 7MHz, 8MHz
DVB-T: 5MHz, 6MHz, 7MHz, 8MH
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