[djdcm0722]

I am currently out of state and want to be able to watch the local football games/news from my server. The issue I am running into is when I try to play a channel from outside my homes network. After a few seconds I get a "Tuner No Longer Available" error. I have setup port forwarding and am able to connect to the webserver page via IPADDRESS:8866 so I know the port forwarding is working. The EPG info also updates when I go to live TV so it is connecting but not streaming the video.

The tuner is available because I connect through VNC and can see a channel playing on one of my home computers, but I still receive "Tuner No Longer Available". I have attempted this with a channel playing/not playing while remotely connected and still no luck.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Miguix]

Im assuming u try to connect from a remote location to your home ip/router behind which u run that server?
Upload bandwiith from ur server / home inet provider too low?

[sub3]

Honestly, you're probably not going to get it working well over the internet. Broadcast television tends to use fairly high bitrates, and this is only really suitable for transmitting across a local area network.

[djdcm0722]

I thought it might be a bandwidth issue (4mb upload) but I wasn't sure. Good to know and disappointing at the same time. Thanks for the help.

[sub3]

I thought it might be a bandwidth issue (4mb upload) but I wasn't sure. Good to know and disappointing at the same time. Thanks for the help.

Some channels in the US use bitrates up to 17 Mbit/s. Even if your channel was using a bitrate less than 4 Mbit/s, you'd find your network connection probably wouldn't be able to sustain this rate, to give you smooth video at the other end.

[Redwingsfansfc]

You are better to use your backend directly for that type of viewing. I have setup wintv8 extend (hauppage) for port forwarded wan viewing, and it works fine. You can even adjust the stream rate to adjust for connection speeds.