AVM Fritz!Box 6490 Cable as Tuner

Dear support team,

after updating my Windows PMS to latest PlexPass Version 1.12.2.4929, I got a notification that a tuner has been found in my LAN.

It tells me that it is an unsupported device but that I can try to enable it:

It then lets me choose the corresponding DVB-C provider…

The resulting channel scan takes some minutes …

… and then tells me that no channels have been found.

I would be very gald if support for these standard DVB-C tuners in Germany could be added to PMS.
Is there anything I can provide / do to support you doing so? Testing things, providing logs?

As a side note:

Streaming via Windows Media Player or VLC works well, DVB-C is enabled and lots of TV stations are found on the device.

I could easily export a channel list from my Fritz!Box.

I have read in other threads, that TVHeadEnd should be used, but I don’t want extra devices / software become involed. I would rather love PMS DVR get the data directly from my DVB-C tuner and I would agree to help you to achieve this…

Thx

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Take a look here:

Currently the only solution is TVHeadend + tvhProxy. I’ve got 5 Fritz DVB-C Repeaters running with Plex DVR this way.

@Wiidesire Thx pal… I was aware of this, but since I operate a NAS/FireTV only Environment, I would - by far - prefer a PMS development solution. Please keep the TVHeadend + tvhProxy discussion out of this thread.

I hope for a developer or guru answer and I am willing to help them to beef up their solution by supporting AVM Hardware tuners…

A native solution would be great.

I think these requests may explode in the upcoming weeks.
The biggest cable provider in Germany (Kabel Deutschland) has rent-modems (called “Homebox”, currently it’s “Homebox 3” → FritzBox 6490 Cable) and the now rolling out Firmware 6.87 finally supports DVB-C.
Previously the cable provider branding prohibited DVB-C so the integrated 4 tuners were useless.

I have 14 tuners available (1x Fritz!Box 6490 Cable, 5x Fritz!WLAN Repeater DVB-C) and would be willing to beta-test as well :slight_smile:

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Hey Guys,
I also have a FB 6490 and would like to see a native support in Plex DVR soon.
TvHeadend cant find lots of channels, so it would be very nice if you guys make it possible.
I run 2 PMS on windows and also have the possibility to test some beta version of it.

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For some reason the full scan doesn’t find anything. On the list of providers, scroll towards the bottom and do a quick scan, then the channels will appear.

6490a

no news? nothing? really… germany needs you :slight_smile:

I can’t even find my FB 6490 as a Tuner in Plex.
PMS v.1.18.4.2164, unbranded FB.

Any hints on how to get this to work?:cry:

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