2025-08-06, 05:52 AM
(2025-08-05, 11:46 PM)mvallevand Wrote: @Joram I don't know enough about your current and proposed system to make any real recommendations. The way I read it the old hardware you are talking about is the VMC4100 which uses local 1TB media storage and not cloud storage. There are also IPC41000 devices that can access it. My gut says you have one VMC4100 somewhere but also have standalong NextpVR PC's on cable card (with wifi) and don't use NextPVR clients.
Current cableco approaches are no longer client/server they use IP delivery which sound like the VMC4100ATV which are all clients to the cloud.
There is typically no way to grab recordings from either the STB server or the cloud storage.
@fla there are are use cases to have access to the current cable STB plus my capture deivce has pasthrough. There is catchup TV and often you can play any show in the guide, on demand and schedule and access cloud recordings in addition to just one tuner in the STB used by NextPVR. Often you't don't need to a waste any HDMI tuners for NextPVR, since many TV's support NextPVR clients or Kodi directly.
Martin
Martin, your description of our current setup is close to what we have. We have standalone Windows Media Center PCs with CableCARDs and also an earlier generation of Verizon boxes, the VMS1100 and the IPC1100 (one of each). The way we have arranged it, none of these machines "talks" to any of the others.
Now when the CableCARDs eventually get deactivated, WMC will become useless and, if we are to stay with Verizon TV, we'll have to go all-in for their boxes... which I'm hoping will be the VMS4100 rather than the VMS4100ATV. Some customers on the Verizon community forum report success in getting the unwanted 4100ATV's replaced with 4100's.
We can call this a kind of contingency planning. Let's assume the worst and say that when the change comes, Verizon will only provide the VMS4100ATV, which as you point out is basically an IPTV streaming box. In that case, what would be the options for a NextPVR system -- they wouldn't be limited, would they, to whatever signals we manage to get off an antenna, plus whatever legal M3U's a streaming service might happen to publish?
Or in other words, there still would be a use for an Hauppauge or other HDMI capture device, no? From your reply to @fla above, I get the sense that NextPVR can use at least one STB tuner, but maybe that doesn't apply to the new generation of STBs.
Just trying to get a general read on how broad or narrow the options would be for people who do a lot of recording from a lot of different linear TV channels.
If it's accurate, though, then this is good news as it does have HDMI.