remote NPVR setup suggestions

[p37307]

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've been active. We bought a house in May 2019 in a valley, surrounded by mountains, 80 miles from the nearest TV broadcasting tower. We are in barren land between two tv markets and none reaches us.. Not even one PBS or religious channels (lol). Even AntennaWeb offers no stations. Like I said, the mountains block the signals. Up the mountain about a mile there are options with a good antenna. 

My brother lives 90 miles away in an area that gets reception from 2 tv markets. It looks like what I am going to have to do is setup a remote system at his house.

(For the purpose of this post, Remote system is 90 miles away, Local system is the one in my home even though it might be reverse technically in terms of computer networking/programming circles.)

What I had in mind was to take a system to his house and let NPVR run only for receiving the signals so I can pull the RSS IP tv stations from it.  At my home base I was going to setup NPVR and use IPTV device and use NPVR as normal, only via IPTV. The setup would use my Hauppauge quad on the remote (brothers) end. Recording drives, etc would be at my home.

I'm paying almost $40 for 10 stations with Spectrum and the local area I had which my brother has, had a lot of stations, including movies, etc over the air.

My brother is not tech savy so if we run into an issue that I can't remotely handle, he can just restart the remote computer at his house and we should be ready to go. 

I can't invest in different hardware than what I already have so a PI or other OTT PVR box is not in the works at this time.

How is V5 Debian working out? I wonder if that would be better than a bloated Windows 10 with all their noise, bells and whistles on the remote system? Either way, the box the remote setup will have is Intel Core 2 CPU, 3.00GHz, 12 GB RAM. (A recycled Dell)

I should also say, I have KODI on a firestick and before we moved we would watch live TV from my home npvr setup on the TV. This is what we will do once again from my local, home NPVR setup.

(To clarify, Remote system is 90 miles away Local system is the one in my home even though it might be reverse technically in terms of computer networking/programming circles.)

How doe this sound?
Is there another solution? 
Any suggestions?

Thanks folks. I've really missed the NPVR community.

[Graham]

What I had in mind was to take a system to his house and let NPVR run only for receiving the signals so I can pull the RSS IP tv stations from it.  At my home base I was going to setup NPVR and use IPTV device and use NPVR as normal, only via IPTV. The setup would use my Hauppauge quad on the remote (brothers) end. Recording drives, etc would be at my home.

Using very, very, very rough values ... An uncompressed HD channel might require about 1 or 2 Mbps of bandwith.  What is the speed of the "up" link on your brother's Internet connection?  It is not likley that the "up" link would be fast enough for more than one or two channels simultaneously.

It is theoretically possible to do what you want using NextPVR in the "normal" way (that is, in much the same way that you have used NextPVR before) ... Have a machine at your brother's that runs NextPVR and records to a disk inside the machine ... Use Kodi or something at your home to watch the shows that have been recorded ... you might be able get a result using NextPVR V5 because it is able to compress the stream that it sends from the "server" device to the "client/viewer" device. ... but this would be a project requiring lots of trial and error and you might never get an acceptable result.

[p37307]

Graham, I picked him out of all available because he has fiber optics internet and his upload speeds are more than my download, almost double, depending on the time of day. I'd prefer to keep the drives  here at my home since it so far away and do all my tweaking and things to my recordings.

My download speed is okay, too, depending on the time of day.

I prefer 720p for some reason So I'll try that.

I'll just do some trial and error.

My download speeds range between 100 and 240 depending on what is going on.
Thanks Graham.

[Graham]

My download speeds range between 100 and 240 depending on what is going on.

!00 and 240 what?  Mbps? (i.e. Megabits per second) ?

I suggest that the first thing that you do is test the speed of the link.  Put a large file on a device at your brother's home, 10 GB should do it, and see how many seconds it takes to download to your home.