The word, from a reliable source, is this little guy will do the encoder job on the cheap:
Combine it with a streaming stick you already own, or a $20 ONN stick, and you're in under $100.
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I only spent 140 on mine so...yeah
I needed a second tuner so i got the usb hdmi encoder costed about 10 bucks and the onn stick was 20 bucks and the spare firetv stick I already had so that didn't cost anything. If you have any spare android tv devices in your house, you might save a bit more really
Can you share the link to the $10 encoder you mentioned? I looked up the MINIENC1 but the cheapest I could find it for was $80.
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Just noticed that my DVR had updated to latest stable release yesterday, did a rescan this morning and got my FS channels back! Probably just a coincidence
https://a.co/d/inl2CMU
$10 video encoder that plugs into a $130 LinkPi encoder to handle 2 streaming devices
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The $10 device is a capture "card" not an encoder -- you still need an encoder.
Your choices are the MINIENC1 for ~$80, which is an encoder, but can only handle one input. Or, you can get the ENCV2 for ~$130, which can support a capture card for a second input.
And now it's gone again for me this morning, both channels are saying 503 service unavailable. Was working fine yesterday.
Good thing I have a E+TV as a backup to get the stuff that I want on Fox.
Probably not helpful, but working fine here, YouTubeTV.
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Working here with Xfinity TVE
Working with Sling TVE.
Both channels came back on their own yesterday so something weird is going on with authentication and my provider.
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Problem has come back again and it looks like others are seeing it as well. Weird that it's only certain providers though.
I had intermittent access via YouTubeTV overnight for FS1, FS2, and Big Ten, which are all unavailable at this moment.
2025/03/22 07:48:01.738478 [ERR] Failed to start stream for ch6198: TVE: POST: https://api3.fox.com/v2.0/watch: 503 Service Unavailable
2025/03/22 07:48:01.738478 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6198-dANY-ip...............: TVE: POST: https://api3.fox.com/v2.0/watch: 503 Service Unavailable
2025/03/22 07:48:54.475238 [ERR] Failed to start stream for ch6197: TVE: POST: https://api3.fox.com/v2.0/watch: 503 Service Unavailable
2025/03/22 07:48:54.482005 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6197-dANY-ip...............: TVE: POST: https://api3.fox.com/v2.0/watch: 503 Service Unavailable
2025/03/22 07:49:17.974503 [ERR] Failed to start stream for ch6199: TVE: POST: https://api3.fox.com/v2.0/watch: 503 Service Unavailable
2025/03/22 07:49:17.974503 [HLS] Couldn't generate stream playlist for ch6199-dANY-ip...............: TVE: POST: https://api3.fox.com/v2.0/watch: 503 Service Unavailable
Yeah there's definitely something funny going on, this morning FS1 is working but FS2 is not. Go figure.
And now all 3 are working again (shrugs)
I've been having issues the last several days (BTN, FS1, FS2) - Hulu
Yeah it's very hit or miss, earlier today only FS1 was working and now both are working. Seems like there's something wrong with Fox's authentication service.
The crappy part for me is that E+ started failing this morning too, so my last backup is HDMI encoder off of my provider's Android STB, which I don't really want to use that much because it ties up the box. Sometimes my wife wants to use one of them and if she picks the one that's currently encoding, poof goes my recording.
The good thing is that my provider has cloud DVR and I can always watch off their stb but of course the playback is nowhere near as good that way. So I have multiple layers of backups for sports lol.
Why not get another encoder to add a second tuner then?
I have 2 inputs just for this reason and I don't record much of anything anyways nowadays
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