Watching TV in your Motorhome

Dogstoat

Dogstoat

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I am a 'newbie' of only 12 months so plenty of humility here...and I might get egg on my face even posting this. :rolleyes:

I was looking around for a satellite dish set-up so I could watch TV in my chuggabug....so potentially several hundred pounds outlay there depending on the quality etc.

I mentioned this to a tech-savvy nephew and he told me not to waste my money...."just use the ROKU stick off your TV at home", he said..."then link the personal hotspot on your iphone to the ROKU..."

So I did...and I can watch Netflix, Prime Video...everything that I can watch at home on TV...I can watch in the motorhome...and the picture quality is the same. :smiley:

I signed up for additional data with vodafone which didn't cost much...and so I'm happy!

Why does anyone pay hundreds of pounds for satellite dishes when you can get TV reception this way...?:unsure:
 
Sorry, you lost me at ROkU.
We have netflix at home and id love to get youtube off my phone and onto a tv whilst away but dont have a clue.🦧🦧
 
Satellite systems are soo last year darling!
But all streaming needs to be able to pull in a strong dependable mobile phone signal.
If you like remote places theres a chance 3,4 or 5G wont be available.
 
Dogstoat said:
I am a 'newbie' of only 12 months so plenty of humility here...and I might get egg on my face even posting this. :rolleyes:

I was looking around for a satellite dish set-up so I could watch TV in my chuggabug....so potentially several hundred pounds outlay there depending on the quality etc.

I mentioned this to a tech-savvy nephew and he told me not to waste my money...."just use the ROKU stick off your TV at home", he said..."then link the personal hotspot on your iphone to the ROKU..."

So I did...and I can watch Netflix, Prime Video...everything that I can watch at home on TV...I can watch in the motorhome...and the picture quality is the same. :smiley:

I signed up for additional data with vodafone which didn't cost much...and so I'm happy!

Why does anyone pay hundreds of pounds for satellite dishes when you can get TV reception this way...?:unsure:
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For us we have a Sat dish, particularly in the UK mobile internet van be very poor, also when we go abroad roaming is now capped, so for us it is easier and more reliable just to pop a dish up, but agree, over the last few years with cheaper mobile wifi, we probably wouldnt bother with a dish for the UK.
 
We have a dish as the van came supplied with one but we tend to use the firestick more than the dish, oh has unlimited data with 3 so no issues with streaming when in the U.K. For the EU we either use wifi if its available or we download stuff from netflix and prime to watch offline.
 
We took our Dish off the roof we had never used it.
So either stream Netflix or YouTube. Or just freeview from a little indoor aerial.
 
dazandandrea said:
Sorry, you lost me at ROkU.
We have netflix at home and id love to get youtube off my phone and onto a tv whilst away but dont have a clue.🦧🦧
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Cost about £30 ...no co-ax cables, no aerials...receives all TV via your internet when at home...or via your mobile phone personal hotspot if you're in your chuggabug.

You can take it on holiday with you and plug it into TV's in hotel rooms and get Netflix, Prime, youtube... ...everything you can get at home.

Mine even worked in Gibraltar ...except I couldn't get BBC who must block it for those outside the UK somehow.

Hope this assists. Get a younger generation relative /friend to sort it for you...easy once you know how! :smiley:

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Dogstoat said:
I am a 'newbie' of only 12 months so plenty of humility here...and I might get egg on my face even posting this. :rolleyes:

I was looking around for a satellite dish set-up so I could watch TV in my chuggabug....so potentially several hundred pounds outlay there depending on the quality etc.

I mentioned this to a tech-savvy nephew and he told me not to waste my money...."just use the ROKU stick off your TV at home", he said..."then link the personal hotspot on your iphone to the ROKU..."

So I did...and I can watch Netflix, Prime Video...everything that I can watch at home on TV...I can watch in the motorhome...and the picture quality is the same. :smiley:

I signed up for additional data with vodafone which didn't cost much...and so I'm happy!

Why does anyone pay hundreds of pounds for satellite dishes when you can get TV reception this way...?:unsure:
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We don’t have a sat dish and likely never will, we use a mifi for the data and an Apple TV hooked up to the MH TV to watch our streaming channels.
 
Dogstoat said:
I am a 'newbie' of only 12 months so plenty of humility here...and I might get egg on my face even posting this. :rolleyes:

I was looking around for a satellite dish set-up so I could watch TV in my chuggabug....so potentially several hundred pounds outlay there depending on the quality etc.

I mentioned this to a tech-savvy nephew and he told me not to waste my money...."just use the ROKU stick off your TV at home", he said..."then link the personal hotspot on your iphone to the ROKU..."

So I did...and I can watch Netflix, Prime Video...everything that I can watch at home on TV...I can watch in the motorhome...and the picture quality is the same. :smiley:

I signed up for additional data with vodafone which didn't cost much...and so I'm happy!

Why does anyone pay hundreds of pounds for satellite dishes when you can get TV reception this way...?:unsure:
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Beyond me ,perhaps some on here arent as tech savi as your nephew .
 
Dogstoat said:
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Cost about £30 ...no co-ax cables, no aerials...receives all TV via your internet when at home...or via your mobile phone personal hotspot if you're in your chuggabug.

You can take it on holiday with you and plug it into TV's in hotel rooms and get Netflix, Prime, youtube... ...everything you can get at home.

Mine even worked in Gibraltar ...except I couldn't get BBC who must block it for those outside the UK somehow.

Hope this assists. Get a younger generation relative /friend to sort it for you...easy once you know how! :smiley:
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amason got them for 24 pounds now
 
I use the firestick with some added software but, live today, we are in a field where it says the internet is 4g but my phone on its own is struggling

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Another vote for the firestick.
Have unlimited with 3 and 45gb o2 (virgin) which rolls over data each month. Currently 82gb in hand.
Have had no prob through Spain, Portugal and France on the recent trip.
And no prob in the UK. (so far)
Work off mobile data from home no BB or LL.
 
As others we use a Firestick for TV but also have our own tablets, for watching different channels, Amazon Prime, Netflix or YouTube, in a pair of these...
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Firestick and Huawei B535 router in the ‘van - haven’t needed to use the external aerial (Poynting XPOL-2-5G) with the router (yet…..). (y)
 
Satellite dishes are coming back into vogue if you go to NW Europe for more than a few days and like your telly. Data roaming is getting very hard to find at an affordable price. Sats are just ornaments in many parts of the UK although still have there place in particulately cold spots around the countries.

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For research, I watched 20 mins of TV recently using data and it consumed about 1gb.
This is why I use a sat dish.

When I bought my last van in 2019 I had an Oyster 5 fitted but did think at the time maybe I shouldn’t have bothered as you could buy a lot of data for £3k.

Not long bought my new van and we still have a Sat system.
Dishes will make a come back due to the data fair usage policy.
 
On the other hand ...........



As I dont have a TV in the van, and I do take a laptop to keep in touch with business emails/bookings, I have an Hauppauge USB TV tuner and a small external magnetic aerial which work well when I want to watch TV. I also have an external disk drive loaded with films although I've not accessed that for a few years!

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are similar to the ones I have.

I also have a small Bluetooth speaker I can link to the laptop if I want more bass than the built in speakers deliver.
 
We have a roof mounted 4g jobbie, never use it, watch a couple of good long movies and the data goes quicker than my wife with my wallet. The van came with satellite but l would never buy one again.
Our mobile contract is with Sky, £8.00 per month and unused data rolls over. At the moment l have 164 gigs of data to use, thats after using it for a fortnight in Padstow.
Not saying a satellite is not useful but expensive when you consider how much tv you watch. Enjoy your holiday,
 
Wh05apk said:
For us we have a Sat dish, particularly in the UK mobile internet van be very poor, also when we go abroad roaming is now capped, so for us it is easier and more reliable just to pop a dish up, but agree, over the last few years with cheaper mobile wifi, we probably wouldnt bother with a dish for the UK.
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Don't use UK roaming abraod. Just buy a cheap one off, no contract SIM in the country you are going to when you get there. We got 50gb for about 15 euros in Spain.

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Rob Turner said:
For research, I watched 20 mins of TV recently using data and it consumed about 1gb.
This is why I use a sat dish.

When I bought my last van in 2019 I had an Oyster 5 fitted but did think at the time maybe I shouldn’t have bothered as you could buy a lot of data for £3k.

Not long bought my new van and we still have a Sat system.
Dishes will make a come back due to the data fair usage policy.
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Generally you uses 1gb per hour watching in standard definition (no need for HD in a motorhome) . You can get 50gb for 15 euros or even cheaper (per GB) for 100 if you buy a data SIM abroad. Even UK have some cheap data Sims.
 
We have unlimited data on Vodafone and Three to keep the firestick fed. Using special apps and paying a sub can get us all of the offerings from SKY and most from USA. The oyster dish with internet is being ripped out, as never use it
 
I use a roku works for me, roku stick weighs a few ounces a sat dish weighs several kgs
 
Stealaway said:
Don't you need to buy lot's of data to use Firestick?


I have an roof aerial for Freeview.
How quaint am I :oops: :Eeek:
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Back from the days of working for a living, one of my customers were kind enough to give me a "employee contract" (unlimited everything).
But yes, a Firestick will burn through data fairly quickly - even more so if watching anything in 4K
 
Would anyone watch anything in 4K in a ‘van………?:unsure:

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