Connected using anazin fure 8 tablet and amazon official clearstream app per instructions and would not connect. Phoned tech support, very knowledgable, got additional steps in addition to those online but still not connecting. Final suggestiin was to try with a snart phone which i will have to buy. ThIs is logical to ts by substitution.
BUTT... Before buying one, does anyone know a different convertor that connects to a std router?
Device is super good idea but not if i have to reengr their system. Fire itself is far superior for video than cell.
And dont want to add fire tv stick or roku etc and find out not working. Just want to watch brosdcast tv on mobile device without subscription.
You wise guys always seem to have simple solutions low cost (my middke name)!
But the page above says you have to have the Clearstream TV app, and doesn't it already need a smartphone to run on?
Step 4 of the instructions, WiFi Setup, has 6 steps and it seems every one of them expects the user to use a smartphone. Weren't you stymied when you got to step 4?
If you don't have one, maybe you could get someone to come over and use his, just to see if it all works when you have a smartphone.
If you need to buy such a phone, there are phones under $50 on ebay, second hand. The curreent version of the app only Requires Android 4.4 and up, and they're up to version 11, iirc, so I wouldn't get version 4 or 5, but at least 6 or 7, or even 9 will be cheap. Although you might want to use it as a phone someday, so it's worth paying $5 extra for an unlocked phone.
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used phones don't seem to say what version of Android they have, but I'm sure there far more recent than version 5, and you can write the vendor and ask. Or better yet you can look up the model of the phone and it will say. For more advice on phones, ask on the adnroid newsgroup.
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won't need a cellular plan because this is just using wifi, which is works with any cell phone 4.4 or newer and doesn't require a sim or a plan.
So, how did you get past step 4 without a smartphone?
BTW, afaik there's no real difference between an HD antenna and any other antenna and even a plain piece of wire will act as an antenna. If you live near a city, you can use, or at least test with, a simple piece of single strand wire, or stranded wire and just put one strand in the hole in the F-connector which is at the end of the ClearStream TV Wireless Tuner Adapter. I used to use pieces 2 or 3 feet long, and iirc when they went to digital, they use higher???? frequencies, so that's plenty long enough. (maybe there's an optimal length, but if everything works with a wire, maybe you can ge a weaker or more distant station with a something called a TV antenna. But tv signals only go about 50 miles at most so noothing you can do short of erecting a tower will get you farther than that.
Not me. Is converter always the right word? That's what this brand calls it but maybe there is some word that's more specific. It's a tv tuner with a wifi transmittter.
Explore the rest of the Silicon Dust product line. You won't be disappointed with their products, even if you don't choose their top of the line 4K tuner. You might be able to cut that $200 price tag in half, or even better if you stumble across a sale.
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