HDHomeRun

Having an HDHomeRun box on your network allows you to watch Live TV directly from XBMC.

=What is HDHomeRun?= HDHomeRun (by SiliconDust) is a stand-alone Networked Digital Cable TV/HDTV Tuner box available in two models, one ATSC (American market) model and one DVB-T/DVB-C model (Europe/Australia/New Zealand/Taiwan).

You connect the TV antenna cable to the HDHomeRun box and it will scan and tune all channels, and via its built-in network-port the HDHomeRun box willl share and stream the channels over local-network using to supported clients such as XBMC.

=hdhomerun:// network protocol = The hdhomerun:// protocol was released as a supported source in XBMC Media Center 8.10 and later.

To communicate with a HDHomeRun, add a new Source from the videos section in XBMC, the source should have a URL that looks like:

=External Links=
 * HDHomeRun official website at SiliconDust
 * SiliconDust Support Forum for HDHomeRun
 * XBMC Community Forum discussion - Native support for HDHomeRun (Networked Digital Cable TV/HDTV Tuner)