I believe these is a bug in Plex guide if you have both an over the air and cable Silicon Dust HDHomerun box. The first HDHomerun box allows you to select the guide (Cable or Antenna) based on HDHomerun box (Connect, Extend, or Prime) and zip code And channels all populate and add correctly. When adding the second HDHomerun box, it will not allow you to select a guide to use with the box, it does scan all channels correctly, but it tries to sync the channels to the existing guide selected with the first HDHomerun box that was added and will only allow those channels to be added.
If I add the HDHomerun connect box as first box, in my case I get 22 channels and all add. I then add second HDHomerun prime and it finds 275 channels, but it does not allow me to select a cable guide to use. It uses the over air antenna guide I previously selected and will only allow me to add the channels from the cable scan that it can sync with the antenna guide. So out of the 275 channel I can receive on cable, only 15 or so may be added.
If I change the order, delete box HDHomerun boxes from plex and start with the HDHomerun prime box, it allows me to add the 275 cable channels and select the cable guide for my local cable company. If I then add the HDHomerun extend as the second box, It scans and finds the 22 over air channels, but it does not allow me to associate the over air guide with the HDHomerun extend. It used the cable guide and syncs the over air channels that it can cross-reference using the cable guide and only allows me to add those channels to the live tv… So if a over air channel does not exist on the cable guide, it will not allow me to add it, even though all 22 over the air channels are detected in the scan. So out of the 22 available channels, I may be able to add maybe 13.
Does anyone have bot HDHomerun Prime and Extend box on Plex and got the guides to work correctly? This appears to be a bug.
Can I add more than one DVR tuner?
Multiple tuners can be added from within the Plex Web app, provided you are using version 2.10.5 or newer. Tuners should be of the same type; all OTA or all cable, on the same Plex Media Server.
Thank you for reply. Same type works with guide. OTA, or Cable, but this in my opinion is not how it should work. You should be able to have both OTA and Cable tuners on same PLEX server and guide should be able to handle both. Satellite providers for example allow OTA to work seamlessly with their guide. Dish network has allowed this for years on their boxes. If this is how it is, OK, but it is not a great design to add this limitation in Plex. It feels like a bug to me. .
It is not a bug, by design which is why it is mentioned in the FAQ. Others have asked the same question. Will it change it the future, only Plex knows.
I am having the same issue. Have an HDHomerun Prime & a HDHomerun dual. I can only get the guide for one of the two, and there isn’t alot of overlap between the cable & antennae. If this isn’t a bug, it should be. Windows media center takes care of this issue transparently.
Can I add more than one DVR tuner?
Multiple tuners can be added from within the Plex Web app, provided you are using version 2.10.5 or newer. Tuners should be of the same type; all OTA or all cable, on the same Plex Media Server.
I have not heard of any plans to allow multiple EPG’s for different types of devices.
It’s not a bug per say, but there isn’t programming to handle two different device types or multiple EPGs. Call it what you will but it’s not going to currently work well right now if you don’t get the same channels on your cable lineup.
I haven’t tried this but if you can do limited programming or scripting you could probably use Zap2it to configure two different lineups (2 accounts). Pull down the 2 lineups, merge them and then feed this into Plex.
This would give you all the channels that you would need to map for each specific tuner.
