TeknoJunky - thank you for the very clear replies. It’s amazing to me that Plex hasn’t come up with a direct competitor to TV Everywhere using the Plex DVR service. It seems so easy for them to offer the very same thing.
Is there an existing feature request that can be upvoted to get this functionality into Plex that you know of?
there are probably a few @ https://forums.plex.tv/c/general/feature-suggestions/8
for starters, maybe these
and or
or
if you wanted to go with HDHR quatro + Prime
The HDHR Quatro only brings off air stations into Plex. When you say + Prime. The prime box is end of life. I covered that in my posts above.
it may be end of life, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a solution.
and it may well be the only solution like that, ever.
True, but the combination of the hardware going EOL, the latest news that FCC is now not mandating CableCards from cable companies etc… it seems the way to go is with a full streaming account.
The bad part is I need to pay for a Channels Plus subscription where I was hoping I could use my Plex subscription to do that part. I’m going to sign up using their monthly price vs. annual just so I can flip over to Plex should they ever get this figured out.
Anyway, I think I understand the current state of everything. Let’s hope Plex releases a competitive feature to Channels Plus in the near future.
ideally plex would just buy channels plus and integrate into plex.
Who knows if they are venture capital backed and want a ton of money vs. what it would take for the Plex team to build it. As with all tech companies - buy vs. build is always the decision. In either case, us having no viable solution with Plex really sucks.
This is one of those times I wish the SiliconDust Cable TV service had not been a dismal failure.
But the truth is everything is moving to streaming services so the idea that Plex can only work with 3rd party set top boxes with cablecards vs. exactly how Channels DVR is doing it is insane. I just don’t get how they haven’t seen this slow train right in front of them and added this exact functionality.
Sadly, I just signed up for Channels DVR and trying to use their TV Everywhere feature and I immediately ran into a bug with their software where it won’t let me add my xfinity streaming service. Nothing screams quality like having to open a case within 5 minutes of opening a new account.
Your frustration is perfectly reasonable. We’re in the midst of a very slow-moving transition and there are neither good answers nor obvious options.
Don’t worry, I am sure the people over at plex who could figure TV anywhere out are working on it and not doing something nobody asked for like Quibi support. Or making the UI require 11 clicks to play anything. /s
As a current Cablecard user, the one bright side to the whole thing is a lot of the cable boxes in the field today actually use a cablecard as their conditional access module so its unlikely any of the big players are going to force them totally offline for a couple of years I would expect. They might do things like refuse to add them to an account or even replace defective ones soon, so fingers crossed.
This is pretty much my main concern, TBH.
Or they might stop providing tuning adapters, for those systems which use them, since their own STBs don’t need them.
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