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This morphed into a guide on how to add an additional hd homerun tuner. See the later comments on this thread.
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How far out is beta 3?
No one knows for sure but Plexā¦but, based on Elanās comment here Iād guess itās days away considering weāre at the 2 week mark now from when Beta 2 dropped. Just a hunch.
thatās good to know, i like a more predictable beta release schedule. i think every couple weeks is a pretty good cadence
The only thing I know is I will be disappointed if the next beta release is not called āDVR Hard with a Vengeanceā. 
Weāre hoping to unleash Beta 3 soon, but canāt give a specific date. The response for Plex DVR has been huuuuge, so you can expect the elves are working hard to bring this feature to prime time.
Just so you know, Iāve installed Beta Two, Bought an HDHomeRun EXTEND, a small cheap antenna from Monocable and popped it in the window as a test. Based on that preliminary test, Iāve purchased a SolidSignal HDB91X, 10 feet of MT, an 8ā grounding rod, 100ā of quad shield RG6. Now I wait for Beta 3!!!
@kinoCharlino said:
Weāre hoping to unleash Beta 3 soon, but canāt give a specific date. The response for Plex DVR has been huuuuge, so you can expect the elves are working hard to bring this feature to prime time.
Iād say itās been huuuuuge since after the announcement you caused the HDHomerun devices to be sold out in a LOT of places on the internet! I found that pretty impressive. Luckily I have owned my Prime device and Extend device for a few years now. I am ready to be able to use both of these with the Plex DVR! 
Love the DVR, but donāt overwork the elves. We also need them on Christmas! 
@FredBrodeur said:
Just so you know, Iāve installed Beta Two, Bought an HDHomeRun EXTEND, a small cheap antenna from Monocable and popped it in the window as a test. Based on that preliminary test, Iāve purchased a SolidSignal HDB91X, 10 feet of MT, an 8ā grounding rod, 100ā of quad shield RG6. Now I wait for Beta 3!!!
ā¦ so soon! 
@mikko.kuusisto said:
Love the DVR, but donāt overwork the elves. We also need them on Christmas!
Theyāll be amped up and ready, thanks to energy drinks!
Not long nowā¦
Iām still running Beta 1. It seems to do everything it was intended to do as per the documentation. I tried Beta 2 and neither the guide or recording schedule would display. Just a spinning circle.
I still get the occasional aborted recording. I have caught it when it happens and it is indeed an issue with the tuner. The green tuner light will blink for 20 seconds or so then give up. I suspect this is an SDV error which I have been getting from time to time since TWC moved even more channels to SDV.
So new beta releases for me are solely for additional features or functionality which I know will come in due time.
My big one is secure CableCARD supportā¦ One can hope right? Unfortunately, without it, this DVR cannot be a Windows Media Center replacement for me. Just a toy to tinker with.
What do you mean by āsecureā CableCARD? I am using an HDHomeRun Prime with a Comcast CableCARD with Plex DVR.
Iām guessing the plex team uses agile as it is pretty much standard fare for programing in todayās industry. That said, it is just a matter of figuring out their sprint cycle. 2 weeks seems like a good guess as that was what separated the first two releases. However, the timing of the first could have been delayed or shifted. The next release will be a better indication of their sprint cycle length.
@listjr1 said:
What do you mean by āsecureā CableCARD? I am using an HDHomeRun Prime with a Comcast CableCARD with Plex DVR.
Iām assuming copy-once channels - TWC and other providers flags copy once on most non-local channels in many markets which adds another layer of DRM. The only way to view & record copy-once channels using the HDHRP is through Windows Media Center (a few platforms that support DTCP-IP can view live channels only).
@elan said:
Not long nowā¦
Donāt tease usā¦
Very excited since Beta 2 has been pretty good for me over the last week or soā¦
hopefully today! if itās posted, please update comment on this thread as iāll have the notification hit my email
@hyrumster I believe the thread youāll want to subscribe to is https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/230212/dvr-beta-release-access-information#latest, perhaps in addition to this one.
@skiddy11 said:
@listjr1 said:
What do you mean by āsecureā CableCARD? I am using an HDHomeRun Prime with a Comcast CableCARD with Plex DVR.Iām assuming copy-once channels - TWC and other providers flags copy once on most non-local channels in many markets which adds another layer of DRM. The only way to view & record copy-once channels using the HDHRP is through Windows Media Center (a few platforms that support DTCP-IP can view live channels only).
What ^ said. Iām a former Time Warner, now Spectrum (yes, I officially called and converted my price plan to the Gold tier to gain three channels that TWC never carried), and still 95% of my active 581 channels are DRM CopyOnce protected. I have a pending complaint filed with the FCC which Iām sure has already been round filed at TWC.
One additional note to anyone on TWC, if you convert to the Spectrum plan 1) be prepared to spend all day getting all your services working again up to and including a couple of visits to the cable store to replace a CableCARD or two and 2) Charter has no interest in internet speed over 100Mbps (a very good thing IMHO). So if you have the 200x20 Mbps speed like I did (I only had it for Plex and the 20 up), you will be bumped down to the 100. If you really want the 20 up, you will have to cough up an additional $40 per month for the 300x20. I was also told that comes with a one time $200 activation fee by one rep.
Soā¦ Charter isnāt into cord cutters! I love it! Iām a ācord stackerā as they say. But I would like my 20 upload back since those are seperate frequencies that donāt cut into the downstream channelsā¦
@gregw74 said:
@hyrumster I believe the thread youāll want to subscribe to is https://forums.plex.tv/discussion/230212/dvr-beta-release-access-information#latest, perhaps in addition to this one.
@gregw74 Does a āmodifiedā comment trigger an email (since the mod is only updating the single comment)? Or does it take a new comment in that thread?
