Serviio

March 27, 2017. I just ordered the Xfinity/Comcast X1 DVR. Question: will my Serviio server via the CC router work? It does work with my current DISH Network DVR via the CC router. I happen to use ethernet for it but it also works via WiFi.

Anyone with experience with this? My old TV's not "smart" so I'll need to go through the DVR, or possibly the HTR which is set up to pass DVD video to the TV, but I don't often want the HTR for simple television, mainly use it for DVDs.

If it won't work it might be a deal-breaker, gotta have my Serviio! And it's not too late to cancel the switch from Dish to X.

What do you mean by "work"? Within your network it should have no impact at all. The only difference would be if you have static IP addresses on any of your network devices and the new router is configured to use a different IP address range. Then one or the other would need to be reconfigured.

For accessing your Media Browser from the Internet, you need the ability to port forward in the Comcast router. I would expect that ability is there, but have no experience with one so can't say for sure what its capabilities are.

Thanks. Serviio is already working fine over my existing Comcast Arris router to the DISH Hopper DVR. I doubt the Comcast installer will be bringing a different router. I have the router connected via ethernet to the Hopper, but it did and does work over WiFi. From net searches it seems the Xfinity X1 ethernet port, while present, is somehow disabled, so WiFi would be the way. I figure the X1 broadcasts WiFi, smartphones pick it up over WiFi using their App, but I'm not sure it accepts WiFi commands IN.