> On Nov 12, 2019, at 9:45 PM, John Robinson <profilecoven...@me.com> wrote:
> The house has Coax, phone and Ethernet wired throughout so I connect the coax > from the modem to an input port in the box, then I connect on the outgoing > side to the areas of the home that has the TV’s. > > So, if I go with an Antenna (External Antenna on a pole 5 feet off the > ground) for many channels will there be enough strength, or power from the > cable coming in from the Antenna to get the signal to the various TV’s? > > I’ve understood there are signal boosters, they might be needed? I would start out with what you have and see how it goes. It would be pretty easy to add a signal booster, so you can add that at any time if you find that you need it. > > Finally, if I would get all that going how am I going to record shows? Do I > have to purchase a Tivo box? Is there no way to record to a Mac Mini? It > sure would be a lot easier to have the recording on an Apple devise that can > then be backed up. We have had three Spectrum boxes go bad and all the > recordings lost, it would be the same with a TiVo box wouldn’t it, or can the > recordings be moved to a Mac? Lots of info if you Google: "record TV signal to a Mac” Good luck and keep us posted! Jonathan -- Jonathan Fletcher Workplace Innovation Facilitator jonat...@fletcherdata.com Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group • Next Meeting: 11/26/19 Technology Association of Louisville, Ky (TALK) www.talklou.com _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
