So my parents live in spain and have been using an IPTV service out there to watch English TV and they're not keen on it. So I thought to myself why not try and make a SlingBox type of addon so they can pass Sky from this country over to their TV and use Kodi as the interface. First off, I'm presuming this is all legal (or at least grey?) as Slingbox have been doing it for ages, right? I'm sure there may be easier ways of doing it as well, I'm guessing put it on TVHeaded and usea IR blaster over the internet or something, but my parents aren't tech savy at all, so installing an addon is the easiest way I can think for them to do this.
Requires a bit of hardware to get it all working, currently using my old Hauppauge PVR to get the signal and a cheap £50 mini Windows 10 machine to handle the streaming, wrote a script to talk to the sky box so that kodi keyboard/remote controls are passed to the Sky box so you can navigate through the menus and then port forwarding on your router for external access.
Was wondering if anyone would be interested in this, if so I'll upload, I'd imagine it's fairly limited in use as you would need Sky and the couple bits of hardware to stream.
Still in the very early stages, debating whether to add menus to allow to jump to a channel outside of the Sky interface... but don't know if it's worth it. Any thoughts?
Also, managed to get a Hauppauge HD Pro 60 on sale for £30, so will at some point have a look at streaming from the HDMI socket, anyone had any luck with something like this, HDCP seems to be an issue here.