Here's what I'd like to do:
- Watch football
- sitting on a couch
- from a different market
- less-than-live. both starting from the beginning while its still ongoing and starting it after its complete. This requires some skipping control, to skip commercials and to maybe jump through the 30 sec between snaps
There are a couple of family member who live in the intended market, so I can put some hardware there to make this work.
I am wary though, because the more complicated the remote setup, the better chance that it needs some administration that I would also need to do remotely.
I'd love to have the channels DVR running on my local mac mini and have a tuner across a VPN to the remote site. this also seems the cheapest. I have an Ubiquiti Amplifi wifi system, and they have this "teleport" product thats a plug and play VPN back to your home network, and that seems pretty no-fuss, but the max speed of that setup is 17mbps, which seems to me to be tight for streaming.
Can someone convince me that having the DVR server be remote, on a ds218+ will be reliable, or reasonably remotely fixable, to make this work? Do the skip ahead controls work responsively remotely?
Both sites have good suburban internet connections, though i should run a test to confirm the remote upload speed