A hobby project I finally finished: HDHomeRun in a browser

[yurguis]

Hello, not sure this is the right place but a couple of years ago I started to work on Skywave, a PHP command line tool to extract info from OTA channels via HDHomeRun. As with any other hobby, progress was not at the pace I would have liked, but every little step reading ATSC docs and dumping bytes off HDHomeRun felt good. After some time I got a working command line tool that could output every bit of info, EPG was the hardest.

Now with the help of AI, I had some time and was able to complete the original idea: being able to play OTA channels in a browser. Doing this at home did not make much sense given the apps that we have, but I needed access from outside.

Today I have made public all the work I have done, organized it a little bit, and hopefully it will help anyone else looking for something similar.

You can download the code from https://github.com/yurguis/skywave, build your containers and start watching in no time. This software also allows you to check the EPG that is available offline (via your tuner), no internet required. I have also added limited recording capabilities as well as recordings management.

There is room for a lot more and I'll keep adding stuff I find useful.

[geriakt]

Does this work in Windows or only linix?
I see from the GitHub it only works with ATSC 1.0. I assume because current chrome browsers can not decode AC4 soundtrack files?
I use Media Player Classic-HC with the K-Lite codec pack that includes an AC4 codec. This player will play ATSC 3.0 direct from the HDHR tuners.

[yurguis]

Does this work in Windows or only linix?

It's PHP so it will run wherever PHP is supported. The easiest setup is via Docker.

I see from the GitHub it only works with ATSC 1.0. I assume because current chrome browsers can not decode AC4 soundtrack files?
I use Media Player Classic-HC with the K-Lite codec pack that includes an AC4 codec. This player will play ATSC 3.0 direct from the HDHR tuners.

No ATSC3.0 support at this moment.

[yurguis]

I see from the GitHub it only works with ATSC 1.0. I assume because current chrome browsers can not decode AC4 soundtrack files?
I use Media Player Classic-HC with the K-Lite codec pack that includes an AC4 codec. This player will play ATSC 3.0 direct from the HDHR tuners.

I have added some limited ATSC3 support since my last reply. For AC4 you'll have to build/use what's available, all explained in the README file. Have only tested OTT channels so far because are the only ones available in my area, OTA channels are encrypted so I can't test them.

If your channel is running an app you might be able to run it as well and play with it.

[wtg]

This is really intriguing... thanks for sharing!