This post explains my setup for recording over-the-air (OTA) TV programs via Verizon FIOS TV.
Even though the solution is pretty obvious, it took me a while to figure it out, mostly for figuring out what won’t work.
It boils down to hooking up a DVR (or equivalent) directly to the FIOS TV coax cable, eliminating the FIOS set-top box. (That is, hook the DVR (or equivalent) to the coax that feeds into the Verizon set-top box.)
Duh. Or maybe, huh. Depending on whether you knew you could do that, or not.
In my case, I didn’t know you could do that. If nothing else, this will help you avoid going down the same rabbit holes I went down.
Edit: In the end, we got two different devices to work as DVRs for OTA TV channels provided via Verizon FIOS. One was TV tuner for Windows computers by Hauppauge (Amazon reference), $80. That was a little glitchy, so we also got a stand-alone Homeworx tuner/DRV via Amazon, $35. That has the klunkiest interface of any device I’ve bought this century. But it does, in fact, work, in the sense of letting me record a chosen OTA TV program straight off Verizon FIOS.
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