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    A friend has an apartment on 6th floor in a building of 10 floors.
    He wants to install a dish pointing to HotBird 13E in the apartment terrace, which is adjacent to the living room and the TV,
    but he doesn't want the coaxial cable to run all the way from the terrace to the living room.
    Is it possible to do this, perhaps have the satellite receiver in the terrace with the coaxial cable connected to it and somehow stream the channels to the TV, using WiFi?
    What kind of receiver should he use? DVB-S2 Enigma 2 is preferred.
    I can stream TV channels to my PC monitor using OpenWebIf but how can this work with a TV?
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    What kind of receiver should he use? DVB-S2 Enigma 2 is preferred.
    He can place a set-top box (i.e a Vu+) f sheltered from the elements close to the dish, which will transmit the streams to the house (the set-top box needs access to the wifi network).

    edit Sorry, you meant stream to a TV, not a PC. I never tried that. BTW OpenWebIf is not needed on a PC, you can just use VLC opening a "network stream"
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    Originally Posted by lollo View Post
    What kind of receiver should he use? DVB-S2 Enigma 2 is preferred.
    He can place a set-top box (i.e a Vu+) f sheltered from the elements close to the dish, which will transmit the streams to the house (the set-top box needs access to the wifi network)
    Thanks for the suggestion.
    I have this setup myself already at home and I have no problem watching using OpenWebIf on my computer (PC Windows 11)
    My question is how to watch the channels using the TV?
    He can use an Android set-top TV box but will need an application that can enable watching (similar to OpenWebIf)
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  4. He needs to check if there is any dedicated application and/or USB stick for his TV set which allows WiFi streaming. There are some but specific for TV operating system / brand / model. Also some DVB receivers don't have quality / speedy wifi, even third-party (USB stick with a little antenna).
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