Is there a device that sends your TV signal to iPad?

[Onomea]

... Inside the same house on the same wireless router system?

It sounds kind of like Sling TV, but Sling TV is a hardware plus subscription service which, as I understand it, is used to send whatever is showing up on your TV at home to you when you travel.

I am looking for a device to send wirelessly air TV programming from the guest bedroom/TV room smart TV on the second floor of a small, two bedroom condo, to the downstairs living room for my wife to watch on an iPad or a Mac. Just a piece if hardware, the simpler the better.

(I don't want to install a TV down there and run a second antenna wire from the attic. I suppose I could buy a small TV for downstairs, but I think reception would be bad without an external antenna connection, and I don't want to run another wire. And I don't want to pay for a cable connection. Also, the place is small, so the less stuff around the better.)

Any ideas? (TV to iPad — not the iPad to TV! Plenty of apps, etc., do that.)

 

[kwselke]

I have a TV tuner card installed in my PC which receives OTA broadcast or cable signals the same as a standard TV. I also have software that makes the PC function as a DVR as well as a DVD player/burner. I believe there is a similar product called iTV for Mac. This gives the computer stand alone TV/DVR capabilities not the ability to communicate with your smart TV via your wireless router.

 

[Onomea]

Thanks, fellas, but I don't want to pay for cable — altho I do use Comcast's Xfinity for internet; wonder if their app alone would transmit air TV for free, or no additional beynd internet charge? — and I think the iTV device, per a quick web search, is defunct.

 

[chaparrito]

Apple TV.
Has to be connected by HDMI to a hi def tv set. Sends tv signals over your wifi LAN to iPad, iPhone etc. 149 bucks.

Apple TV - Apple

 

[Onomea]

No kidding?! That's great. Does the gen 1 Apple TV do that — I have one in my Japan house — or is it just the newer ones?

Chaparrito: Gave your link a peruse: I don't see anything about the Apple TV pushing regular Air TV to an Apple device. I think it may be restricted to paid apps, like Netflix, etc.

 

[otisrush]

I'm not an Apple person, but it appears a hardware product called HDHomeRun is required to get over-the-air TV broadcasts distributed onto your local WiFi network. I don't *think* AppleTV can do this by itself. (It streams "TV" that is available from online sources, like a Roku I believe.)

Also, just for clarification, Sling TV and Slingbox are not the same thing. Slingbox is a hardware solution that "rebroadcasts" what you get from your cable subscription. It allows you to access what is on your cable system or DVR from another place, either on your network or when you're not home.

Sling TV is an online service only. It allows you to watch (very economically) channels that one would normally only be able to get if one purchased a standard (big) cable package. It has channels like HGTV, ESPN, some movie channels, etc. This service doesn't do "rebroadcasting" at all.

 

[Onomea]

Otisrush, I think you may well have found what I am looking for: HDHomeRun CONNECT - Silicon Dust

I was put off by the reference to Android, but lower down I see the Apple icon.

I will read over the website carefully.

 

[Targets Guy]

With our phone company we have a service called "watchtvanywhere" and when we sign on to that we can get our tv on any of our computers and my iTouch anywhere in or around the house. No extra charge and no additional wires to run or buy.