I've had an HDHomerun for about 8 years now and would highly recommend them. I'm setup with my antenna plugged to it and then it to my router. Then on AppleTVs I use Channels.app for tuning in (I think it's available for android too).
It might on refresh. I tried fixing the site's automatic embed. If not it's the "RCA Compact Outdoor or Attic Yagi TV Antenna". When you look at the listing there's a few different ones with different ranges. You want the 70 or 75 mile one. I'm not familiar with the other ones. Both the 70 and 75 miles ones are the same SKU from different sellers. Go with which ever is cheaper.
Do it in stages if you're not sold on it yet. Just set up the antenna to start and then add the DVR afterwards. Instead of the $35/year too look at the lifetime sub of Emby. Lifetime is $119. Or try out Jellyfin. It's a free open source fork of Emby and I don't believe it has a fee. You have to have the server running through on a computer or NAS. I run them on my NAS.So here's what it's looking like:
HD Homerun= $200
DVR service fee for guide= ~$35/year
Antenna (if my indoor antenna can't tune 15.2)= $59
USB hard drive (luckily I have a spare 500Gb that should work)
So much for my $150 budget, lol.
That's nearly $300 and the time to install everything for Yotes games of unknown picture quality and the reality is we don't even know if they're staying here long term. The money isn't that big of a deal, but man, they really can't make it easy to be a fan of this team.
Do it in stages if you're not sold on it yet. Just set up the antenna to start and then add the DVR afterwards. Instead of the $35/year too look at the lifetime sub of Emby. Lifetime is $119. Or try out Jellyfin. It's a free open source fork of Emby and I don't believe it has a fee. You have to have the server running through on a computer or NAS. I run them on my NAS.
To help with the mental end of it, think of it as more than the Yotes. All Card games are OTA and the Suns will be too this season. Generally I find the PQ on OTA better than cable/sat. It's not compressed in the manner that they are. Added bonus: OTA has the least amount of broadcast delay so you can usually get your TD or INT post made in the gameday threads before anyone else.
FYI, you shouldn't nee additional antennas but to just get it wired up to your current TV. That's if you're using the OTA directly. If you're using something like the HDHome run then you might need to depending on your model. I believe mine supports 2 streams at once.It's up to about 3-5 minutes of delay as well. I watch Cards games on the larger TV in my living room while the wife will watch it on a smaller set in our room. She switches to OTA on that set while I'm watching on Hulu. I always know when something good or bad is about to happen based on her screams lol. I need to buy additional OTA antennas I guess.
Have you looked into LocalBTV? I used that when I cut the cord and was still living in the Valley. Watch directly from computer with no antenna needed.
Looks like a cool service. I hadn't seen it before. Unfortunately it looks like it won't work for the use case. They don't carry yet the major stations so channel 3 and 15 are not available through it yet.
Just thought of it. I have a cheap antenna sitting in my spare room that I was going to throw out. You're welcome to it if you'd like to give it a try.
