HDHomeRun Flex Quatro 4 x ATSC Tuners - HDFX-4US

Easy to install for this 67 year old grand-mother. Solved my problem to record OTA and the signal is much better than just going straight into the TV. It must have a signal booster in it. My husband will complain that his TV isn’t getting a certain channel and I tell him to switch the app to HD-Homerun and it comes in clear as a bell. Thank you Silicon Dust.

Absolutely perfect integration with Plex Pass and my media server. I took this unit out of the package, plugged in my attic antenna cable, the Ethernet cord, and power, and it was instantly recognized when I went to my Plex dashboard to look for it. Plex handled the channel scan, guide setup, DVR settings, and added services. I have the DVR recording to it's own library on a RAID array set up for best performance. It took less than 10 minutes to set up. I have an old Sling AirTV box that I have been using for a long time to view, stream remotely, and record off of my antenna, but this box with the Plex integration takes it to another level. I also had a new generation two tuner Tablo, but got so fed up with the poor performance, reliability, and company support for that thing that I ended up throwing it into the e-waste bin. If you have a Plex server and pass, this is the way to go. Great performance, great interface, and it just plain works.

From fall to spring, 90% of the TV I watch is OTA TV on the primary networks that I record and watch later so I need a tuner that can pull in stations and works with Plex which is what I use to record them and play them back later when I have time to watch. Plex requires a tuner that it is compatible with and I initially went with a Happauge 4 tuner card that I installed in the Plex server. Where I had a problem is that there are some shows that the wife and I like to watch that are on PBS and that station is in a different direction than the rest of the stations we watch. The PBS station is west of us and the rest of them are south. If I set the antenna pointing directly south, all the stations but PBS would come in fine but if I set the antenna west, PBS and some of the other stations would come in but not all and even then, only under ideal weather conditions. Pointing the antenna somewhere between the two directions would sorta work but was not consistent or reliable. I finally came up with a dual antenna solution with one antenna pointing south and the other pointing west and while that worked well for the TV's tuner, Plex was still having an issue recording anything on PBS. It was obvious that the issue with the Plex server was the tuner it was using since the TV worked fine on the same cable. Doing some research on tuners compatible with Plex, it was clear that the HomeRun tuner was preferred and worked well so I figured I would give it a shot and ordered this one since I need 4 tuners at times. I was surprised on just how small this unit is when I got it. Hookup couldn't be any easier. Connect the antenna coax to it, plug it into your network switch, and plug in its power adapter and you are done. It does not have WIFI so it does need an Ethernet cable connection and need to be placed where it has access to your router or switch connected to your network. Since I am using this for Plex, I did not download any of its software so I will not be commenting on that but I will talk a little bit about how it works with Plex. One problem with the Happauge card is that even though it is a 4 tuner card, it is actually set up as 2 dual tuner devices so everything you need to do to set it up for the Plex DVR, you have to do twice, once for each tuner device. The HomeRun tuner is recognized as a singe 4 tuner device so you only need to do the setup once for all 4 tuners. The HomeRun tuner will most likely need to have its firmware updated but even then, there is no need to download or install any other software to do that. All you need is the IP address given to the device and enter it into your web browser. In Plex, when it discovers the tuner it will give you the IP address assigned to the the tuner but you can also get that directly from the router if you know how to log into the router and look at its table of connected devices. Once you enter the HomeRun's IP address into your browser, it will log you into the HomeRun tuners home page and if it needs a firmware update, there will be a button on it to perform that function. Just click on that button and confirm that you want to update and you are done. It will download the updated firmware, install it on itself and reboot itself with the new firmware installed and you are ready to go. Testing so far has been great. Plex now easily records every station I want it to including PBS so the tuners are better than the ones on the Happauge card and seem to be a match for the TV's built in tuner so we seem good to go. The final test will be to have Plex record 4 high def shows at the same time while playing back 2 other shows. The Happauge card was an internal card so the servers network interface is only used for output. The HDHomeRun tuner is an external device so the Plex server will use its network interface for both recording and playback and this test will just make sure that there are no issues or bottlenecks during what would be our maximum usage of the server. I don't see it being any real issue as the server has a gigabyte network interface but if there is one, I'll post it for any Plex users to watch out for. Otherwise, I am happy with the tuner and am looking forward to this falls TV season.

I have been using HDFX-4US HDHomeRun CONNECT QUATRO FLEX 4k it has a USB connector, but the web site does not give any details on what it is for. So I contacted Tech support, they got back to me in a day, They inform me that it was used to record the TV shows, To do this you have to DVR service subscription for $35./ year and which I did not do. I notice that they did not give the uint any specification for a maximum input level to the RF input. Again contacted Tech support, they got back to me in a day, They recommend targeting a signal strength of 6dBmV (-42.75dBm) or less, though much stronger signals can also be received, particularly if a proper LTE filter is used to eliminate the 600MHz band LTE signals. He is what I have found out about My SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDHR5-4US Connect Quatro 4 Channel Tuner. Using the APP called HD HomeRun which I loaded on all my devices which include Fire TV Cubes, Roku and Apple products. 1: Roku units: The Roku Ultra works using the HD HomeRun App but the private listening does not work. The Roku Premiere I only get a picture no sound using the HD HomeRun App. 2: Fire TV Cube: On Fire TV Cube the HD HomeRun App works great, I can even use my Bluetooth head phones for private listening. Apple: Even on my iPad the HD HomeRun app works great, and yes I had to try the App on my IPhone even here to it worked great. Now some people will not like the menu display on the right side of the screen, But for me this is not a big deal. I now have My local TV channels on all 4 TV’s in my house. How many stations you get depends on your location and distance from the transmitter. Also please note that if you use a TV distribution amp you might have to use a TV attenuator not to overdrive the Units RF input. The set up was easy just plug it into my router, connect the RF cable, and power , the uint went out and scan for my local TV channels. I was all setup. Overall I am happy with this uint.