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HDHomeRun

Iain Smith edited this page Aug 28, 2026 · 1 revision

HDHomeRun

URL can also point directly at an HDHomeRun network tuner on your LAN:

tvdinner hdhomerun://192.168.1.50

There's no login step — HDHomeRun devices have no authentication at all — and no auto-discovery either: give tvdinner the device's IP or hostname directly (found via your router's client list, or SiliconDust's own discovery tools).

What you get

tvdinner fetches the device's channel lineup and uses each channel's stream URL as-is.

If the device reports a paid HDHomeRun DVR guide subscription, tvdinner also automatically fetches program guide data from SiliconDust's own XMLTV API — no --epg or any other configuration needed, and from there the program guide works exactly as it does for any other source, including EPG-driven scheduled recording.

Without a subscription, that fetch simply fails and channels behave like any other EPG-less playlist — no guide grid, no programme titles/times, and no EPG-driven scheduling (only ad-hoc r-key recording of whatever's currently playing). This is the same graceful "EPG data not available" handling you'd see for any inaccessible guide source, not an error.

Everything else

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