I have a slingbox HD pro. I see that slingbox no longer makes the sclingcatcher. I was thinking it would be REALLY handy if my brand new Roku was somehow able to capture my slingbox feed. I personally have NO clue how to do that but I thought you all might!

From what little I've been able to gather on the encoding the slingbox uses, it looks like it's possibly supported, at least if the encoding options are tweaked at bit. I would be happy to play with trying to get something like that working, but A) I don't have a slingbox, and B) I don't know their policy on third party devices/software accessing their streams, or if it matters.

Hello,
I am new to this forum, but I have been using a slingbox for many years. I would love to pick up a couple sling catchers but even on EBay they are pulling $300 to $600. When putting these on multiple tv's at that price, it is cheaper just to buy a whole computer. I don't own a Roku, but if someone could figure out a way for them to display a stream from a slingbox on a Roku, I would buy at least 5 of them. If any of you guys have any insight into this please post about it. I would also be interested in being able to handle a stream from a Vulkano although unless Monsoon comes up with some substantially better firmware I will be sending mine back next week.

I look forward to hearing if you guys think this is realistically possible on a Roku.

Thanks,
Jeff

Hey, if someone's willing to lend me a SlingBox for a few weeks, I'll take a serious look. But barring that, your best bet is to either find a developer who already has one, find someone who has one and convince them to develop, or petition slingbox's company.

I really would like to have this too. The Roku as a SlingCatcher would be awesome.

omahaone wrote:

Hello,
I am new to this forum, but I have been using a slingbox for many years. I would love to pick up a couple sling catchers but even on EBay they are pulling $300 to $600. When putting these on multiple tv's at that price, it is cheaper just to buy a whole computer. I don't own a Roku, but if someone could figure out a way for them to display a stream from a slingbox on a Roku, I would buy at least 5 of them. If any of you guys have any insight into this please post about it. I would also be interested in being able to handle a stream from a Vulkano although unless Monsoon comes up with some substantially better firmware I will be sending mine back next week.

I look forward to hearing if you guys think this is realistically possible on a Roku.

Thanks,
Jeff

Any sling catcher NIB is at least $600 . I don't know if you can stream on a the roku, i'd be curious to know too. I heard the vulkano has no real hd capabilites ?
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I think TheEndless was working on this recently (if he didn't get swamped with other stuff). Maybe we'll get an update soon on his progress (or lack thereof, if it's a not possible).