A hobby project I finally finished: HDHomeRun in a browser

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yurguis
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A hobby project I finally finished: HDHomeRun in a browser

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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.

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