What I'm trying to reduce is the amount data download it takes to stream to say 3 TV all at once. It'd be great if it somehow tied into Hubitat is why I'm starting here. I'm sorry...I've done very little research and just hoping someone knows the answers. During football season I keep getting ...the "you've used all your data for the month" emails from Xfinity... I have a pretty good allotment..and this kind of ticks me off. I used to have DirectTV and this wasn't an issue. Now I just have smart TV's...so If I'm moving around doing stuff and want the game on a couple TV's...I'm pulling down 2 or 3 streams for no real reason.
Does someone have a great solution for this...I mean it need to support all the apps...Netflix, Prime, You Tube TV etc.
Control of the device might...just asking. I need to solve the issue and always looking for any automation I might be able to do. For instance, is there any control for the network based NVIDIA SHIELD TV Pro
Never used any nvidia shield devices but a quick ask to Copilot suggests that yes, there are methods to interact with it in various ways that a home automation platform like Hubitat (or home assistant) can leverage.
But if I understand where you’re going with this (and perhaps I don’t), you want to access a single NFL game stream from the internet, and then simultaneously rebroadcast it to multiple TVs in your house to to avoid running up against ISP bandwidth caps?
That still feels like a pretty big stretch in terms of how Hubitat could help make that happen.
Or an nvidia shield, to be honest, but if you’ve already solved for that side of the problem please share more details.
The only solution that I can think of is to distribute HDMI throughout the house from a single streaming box, like the Nvidia Shield, an AppleTV4K, a Roku, or an Amazon FireTV.
That way, only one device is consuming ISP bandwidth, while all TVs in the house are displaying the output from one streaming media box.
I had a different thought earlier, but I don't know if it will work. Channels DVR supports streaming services using stream links. Those links get indexed periodically and are then presented to the Channels DVR app on TVs and other devices.
I'm wondering whether playing a stream link on multiple devices uses that link a single time or multiple times? Would you happen to know?
I’ve used splitters and all kind of cable extension tech before.,,would really like a video server that could then multicast a single incoming stream to multiple devices on the local LAN.
TiVo was ahead of its time. They had a solution for this years ago called TiVo Stream where you could watch streams from multiple TVs. Unfortunately they are gone.
That reminds me of Windows Media Center from the WinXP/Win7 days. I had Windows Media Center Extenders around the house at each TV. Good times back in the cable card days.
Except getting support for cable cards when things went sideways. No one locally knew how to deal with them. There was a small team at Time Warner Cable in Albany NY that provided advanced support for cable cards that I had a direct number to for issues lol.
That may be where I have to go...but hoping for wireless. Thanks for the idea though. Two of my TV's mount on wall with no Ethernet and it'd be REALLY tough to wire to them since they are the lower floor with no "attic" access to drop the wall.
