Hdhomerun Signal Meter

Auto detection of the device is great if all of your network is fed by one WiFi router. If you have a larger or more complicated network setup to allow the WiFi network to access the wired network then you need an option for manual IP entry. Not complaining because it is free and I applaud the developer's effort. Just be aware it only works on very simple setups.

Superb app for showing all the facets of digital TV reception - signal strength, signal to noise, and most importantly, symbol quality. Some channels with great strength and SN ratio have intermittent symbol dropouts that otherwise wouldn't be noticeable until viewing. This app shows it all. If you've got an HDHomeRun, you really should get this too.

Great little app if you have an HDHomeRun, although it wasn't obvious how to use it, and there are no instructions. You have to make sure your phone is connected to the same network as the HDHomeRun, then click the scan button. You also have to make sure a channel is playing through the HDHomeRun. Then you'll see the Sig Strenth & Quality bars change. I don't know what Sym Quality is (not explained). Turn your antenna and watch how bars change until they're better, then lock your antenna in place.

I just installed an antenna in the attic, in August, in Houston. Needless to say I didn't want to stay up there long. This app let me measure signal strength from my phone while in the attic adjusting the antenna. I couldn't be more grateful.

This app is very helpful in adjusting the antenna remotely. The only thing I could possibly find missing is the frequencies being tuned to. The app on the computer does show that when it scans though. Sometimes when the signal is less than 100% but still green the whole bat goes green.

I don't have the time it would take to describe all the ways this app is disappointing. In order to adjust an antennae using this app you would have to have a pencil and paper to write down all of the station number translations during the 15+ minutes it takes to manually "scan" each individual station. Then manually type in the stations you want to tune/adjust in a tedious process of turn, type, wait, repeat. The alternative is to "scan" them several times to make sure getting one station clear doesn't undo the tuning of another. This, of course, would take several hours if you live anywhere near a metropolitan area. There are 2 or 3 extremely simple UI enhancements that could make this "simple" app actually usable. Since this hasn't happened in the last year, I don't expect it anytime soon. For the love of all that's usable, couldn't you at least retain the list of tuned stations to scroll through?! From my experience with app development, I can only imagine that the original app was written in less than an hour and the only development time devoted to it since has been debugging.

I loved being able to check the signal while up in the attic. While it took me a minute to figure out, changing the channel was extremely useful when trying to balance between two stations in different directions.

I really want to use this, but the fact I am unable to access anything not on my wireless subnet immediately prevents me from using this. I understand not being able to scan, but at the very least let me manually designate an IP. It would stand to reason that people who choose to implement a networked OTA tuner would be the geeky sort, and maybe some of them would have a network that is atypical.

I love this app on my android phone and tablet but it will not work on my chromebook with android apps. Would appreciate if developer could look into why this is. Kodi does pick up my tuner with the mythtv pvr addon just fine.

the app is a nice convenient tool, but it freezes up on my during use.

Unable to scan channels. - or . does not work. It can find my tuners and if I fiddle with it long enough it will capture a channel like 19.3 when I try to scan up or down errors out. Running on Galaxy S7

I was the guy with the laptop... So practical, silicondust should pay you and advertise the app on their site. I get all the info I need to aim the antenna without climbing ladders so often or lugging laptops to the roof in the middle of winter.

handy. I used screen shots to save channel information that was discovered.

Little buggy and a few crashes but that being said saved a lot of work in getting an antenna aligned. Thanks!

Just what I needed. And thank you for making it free!

Super easy to use, so helpful for checking signal strength.

This is the best app for aiming OTA antennas available.

Great way to tune antenna and see instant results.

Really helps to adjust antenna when you can see the signal strength.

A keep screen on/awake option would be sweet.

Latest version works great with TC. Thanks!

Works good a great tool to align antennas

Works as intended

Wast

You can use this to select a channel then watch it for free with XBMC on android. Pretty useful for checking signal as well. Great job.

Much nicer than yelling at the wife to get the signal strength as I move the antenna around in our attic.

If there was a way to save a set of channels that would complete this project. Great work.

I like this app but it still has some annoying problems on my GS3. Bars don't change length with changing values and the tuned channel will sometimes change when the screen is rotated.

Works as described. Ability to reboot device, without unplugging, makes it 5 stars.