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I moved from MythTV to SageTV ~15 years ago or so, for the hardware client

I moved from MythTV to SageTV ~15 years ago or so, for the hardware client. A few months ago, I moved to Channels. What I like about it is it works really well on Firesticks and AppleTVs that I already have attached to my TVs, so that means I can finally get rid of the hardware sagetv clients (one of which I've had to replace the caps in) and simplify my setup. When looking to move last fall, I first looked at MythTV. It was still horrifically hard to setup. Given I'd never use a pc client, I then moved on to tvheadend, which had its own issues (mainly on the side of the kodi client). I finally settled on Channels because they have FreeBSD support for the server, and more importantly, It. Just. Works.

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I'm still rocking my 13 year old SageTV installation. Even the hardware clients are still working well. So grateful they were allowed to open source the software after Google acquired it.

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for me, Comskip is the killer feature I would be very sad to give up. With Channels do you have to manually FF through ads?

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I did the same! I ran MythTV on a PC connected to my TV for a while, but when I wanted to add a second TV I had a really hard time getting a decent fanless client at a reasonable cost (this was mid/late 2000's). I ended up switching to SageTV purely for the hardware client. A year or so after SageTV was acquired, I moved to Plex. The biggest miss was the hardware client. I went through several sub-par iterations of PC-based hardware -- including mini-ITX PCs and Raspberry Pi -- but never got a setup that could run Plex, Youtube and Netflix and work 100% without a keyboard/mouse involved. I also tried some hardware -- Roku, original Chromecast -- but nothing was even remotely good as the SageTV HD300's, even years later. Until I found the Nvidia Shield -- though it's more Google TV doing the real magic, I think. I still have the original 2015 model in my living room, still working perfect…

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