Comment by kotaKat

Anyone know any "friendly" IPTV set-top boxes that you can point at your own feed of multicast channels? I'm looking for something more 'turnkey' than having to rely on an Android TV box or similar.

I've been experimenting on free time with a bunch of fiber distribution (cheap Chinese GPON OLTs are out there for under $200 on Aliexpress and can serve 64 users downstream) - I already essentially have the "double play" on fiber with an ONU able to connect and get online and provision its VoIP ports. Adding TV to the mix would make it more fun. It'd just be slicing off another IPTV VLAN down the pipe with the multicast streams, then whatever set top boxes on the same VLAN.

(I've /also/ got a small Arris CMTS, and I'm looking at experimenting with RFoG with a return path on top of this - so I theoretically have both fiber and cable to experiment with inside the homelab.)