Essential but hardly works
HDHomeRun has been part of my home setup for years, it’s great that I can record shows and have a library. But it’s frustrating because the app repeatedly can’t find the tuner on the local network. Often met with the Retry, Quit, Communication Error, Fail. Try another iPhone or Mac and it might work. What is the app doing that it can’t find a device or easily stream from it? I wish it was stable. I can’t figure it out.
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Functional but could use work
To developer: Please make the rudimentary Mac keyboard shortcuts work: Cmd+Q should quit the app rather than bringing up the search.
Means to an end, but wow it’s bare bones
Command+Q isn’t even working in this version, it brings up search. LOL.
Missing Samsung
This app could use work. I would give it 3.5 stars if it solved for the full ecosystem. Currently missing a Samsung TV version which is a BIG deal in my house. Samsung has a big slice of the TV market share. You can't ignore it
Zero stars. Junk app.
This app looks like it was written 20 years ago.
Just Works
Great product! I hooked it up to a ClearStream 4v antenna and I got 45 local channels automatically. Now I can watch local sports over the air. The app works on all my TVs via Apple TV and Roku and on my iPhone. If you get a good antenna and are in range of your local broadcasters you’ll be golden. I don’t understand why this app has a 2.5 rating!
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This works good on AppeTv 4k
I have actually downloaded this to my Apple TV 4K directly from the App store. I first had this installed on my MacMini M4, OS 26..5 as of today / 05/17/26. Unfortunately I had to do a clean install to my M4 and now I am having problems. But I still can watch this on my Apple TV, ie the box connected to my Television. I have a good TV antenna on my roof and I receive +106 channels. I’m using the 4 channel tuner from Silicon Dust. I live 50+ miles away in the Tri-valley of Dub,Plea,Liver. I am amazed at the tuner’s sensitivity . Much much better than my Sony.
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Marginal for Offgrid
The dvr function requires full time internet access, not unreasonable. But it also loads a large animation at start-time and during frequent cell outages those of us offgrid or on limited bandwidth are unable to use it because it hangs while loading. If nothing else the animation should be cached or skippable.
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Renders AppleTV networking useless
On my AppleTVs I’ve isolated the problem to this app - every few times I use it the AppleTV’s Ethernet networking gets confused and stops working for all apps. Only this app and only on AppleTV. For years it has been happening, I restart the AppleTV but it doesn’t work until the next day and only with this app. I can only guess that something non-standard is happening. I use Ethernet and a manual fixed IP. I searched the internet but no answers.
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Works fine
Only wish would be to remove that warning to connect to WiFi. I VPN home and this would work if it wasn’t for the warning message.
AppleTV problems
April 2026
Replace AppleTV with Amazon Fire Stick HD as Apple TV now on ios26 was taking longer to change channels even though iPad version was working ok.
Image quality much improved and channel switch takes
Replace AppleTV with Amazon Fire Stick HD as Apple TV now on ios26 was taking longer to change channels even though iPad version was working ok.
Image quality much improved and channel switch takes
Great
Idk, works well for me in 2026. The reviews for the HDHR apps almost stopped me from buying the unit altogether, but I’m glad they didn’t. I’m using a Mohu Gateway Plus antenna and a HDHR Flex Quatro w/ ATSC 1.0. So far the Android app on a Galaxy Fold 7, the iPad app on a 4th Gen iPad Pro, the MacOS app on a 2023 M2 Max, and the Apple TV app on a ATV 4K haven’t given me any issues and I’m extremely pleased with my purchase. Fast-Forwarding a recorded playback is admittedly a little clunky, but I think that could be from using a slow HDD. Something to be aware of though, but imo not a reason at all not to use this as a cost-cutting solution.
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Just stops playing channels
App rarely works on Apple TV. It will play a channel from 5-30 minutes and then just stop. Have to force close app and do it all over again.
Excellent
I’ve used this app for over 8 years everyday in my offgrid cabin. It’s improved over that time time and is nearly faultless today.
MAC pc: Local Network for APP must be toggled
Every time I turn on MacBook, I have to toggle the Local Network setting for the HDHomeRun in order for the app to launch. Retry doesn’t work
Hardware great. App so so …at best
The app on latest iOS crashes instantly. Restarts and crashes. It’s to point that it is worthless. On older iPad, it works great. Well, not great. For example if I leave app running and am done using iPad, when I return using it, I have to close the app and restart else it won’t work. Come on guys, shameful to negate the great hardware with such a mediocre app. At the very least, keep up with IOS changes.
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Does not work
It doesn’t even start up. Keeps crashing every single time I try to open it.
No mute - Fixed
Works well, no option to mute in the app. The windows app has mute...
Fixed now.
Fixed now.
OTA saving money lowering TX power
Love using the hdhomerun dual tuner. I have it upstairs on a powered antenna. Works great to pull in those weak OTA signals. I can also tune in from anywhere using my VPN.
But there is one critic that really bugs my OCD. On the Apple TV while watching live tv can you make the overlay menu automatically disappear after 60 seconds.
But there is one critic that really bugs my OCD. On the Apple TV while watching live tv can you make the overlay menu automatically disappear after 60 seconds.
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Functional
I purchased this so I could record live TV from my antennae. I have a ROKU made TV and it work ok watching live TV. In order to watch a recording you have to screen mirror the app from your iPhone. The Roku app crashes frequently if the recording has any glitches. It works fine for the money.
