Streaming Live TV While RVing With Starlink

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Original Member Title: HULU not good for RV life, what’s good?
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The original poster uses Hulu Live at home but found it unsuitable for RV travel because Hulu limits location changes and can lock out live TV. Members suggested several alternatives that work over campground internet, cellular internet, or Starlink, with Sling TV receiving multiple positive mentions for traveling without the same location restrictions in the U.S.

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mxdad777

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I have HULU live at home and have been relatively fine with it. However, when I travel it only allows me to change locations 4 times per year and then it locks you out of live TV. What is everyone using to stream live TV when camping? We aren’t interested in dish or Direct TV, we have Starlink and are looking for a streaming service where we can get live TV. I app
 
YouTube TV has a tier that allows broadcasts from the area where you are located. We used it for a few years, but the value wasn’t enough for us to justify continuing. Worked just fine, and YMMV. Every 2 or 3 months, we needed to sign on from our home. We just got our kids to stop by and do that.
 
We have internet through T-mobile with unlimited tethering to other devices. We use a mac mini as a home theater PC (same as we do at home). Through the HTPC we have access to our Netflix and Amazon Prime services, as well as, YouTube and all the major network internet channels as well as downloaded/rented movies and series. Not knowing StarLink, I would guess StarLink would give the same access to the Internet as our phone streaming therefore, a PC or a smart TV (such as our Samsungs) would do the same. Perhaps I don't understand the issue very well.

Of course there are OTA (Over The Air) stations in most places using our Batwing antenna, even though we prefer to avoid commercial-laden shows, and being old we are not worried that only one fuzzy station might be available to watch since we grew up holding the aluminum foil-swaddled antenna as Dad would say, "Right there! Don't move! Now go back!"

And lastly, sometimes there is a local cable hook-ups on the campground pedestal and we've used those at times.
 
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YTTV worked well for us when we were still traveling. To log in from our home area every few months, I used a fake GPS app and the YTTV app on my phone
 
Another satisfied Sling user. I had it for 5+ years before we started migrating and found that it travels easily and without restrictions. It is accessible through a fine (good enough) web interface, and we also view it on the central TV using Hulu Roku. Sling also provides a DVR capability.

Greg.
 
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I like Pluto.tv. It’s totally free. Yeah, some of the shows are ancient. But it is free, and I still really like some of those shows and movies!
 
We encountered the same issue with Hulu, so for that and other reasons, we switched to Sling TV. So far so good.
We've had sling for years.
Only problem has been traveling through Canada it doesn't work.
There is probably a work around with a VPN but only another couple weeks and will be back in the states.
 

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