I have been playing with Live TV & DVR for a few days in the hope that it could replace the mythtv-server on my media server. On my last attempt there were two tuner cards, including a Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD.
The first brick wall was the lack of EPG for my Australian region. I’m in South Australia and there’s not even one for our capital city, Adelaide. I use shepherd EPG for mythtv, so have an xmltv file, but can’t work out if it can be imported into PMS.
The second brick wall was that I saw no intuitive way to play a recording in progress, which for a number of reasons is a MUST HAVE for me. The only (tedious) way was to open the recording TS file in the “.grab” directory and play it using VLC or some other video player.
I also notice that recording is very unreliable, likely to stop at any time before the schedule ends. A manual restart is required.
Finally, although I seem to able to record LiveTV, I wasn’t able to actually watch live tv:. It results in “Source not available” - if the source isn’t available, why can PMS record live tv? Very confusing.
Anyway, it has done my head in so back to that other LiveTV/DVR server Linux platforms offer.
PS: LiveTV/DVR was the main motivation to take a Plex Pass.
After years I’ve just cancelled Plex subscription for similar reasons - mainly the manufacturer favouritism toward HDhomerun tuners - these might be in abundance across the US … however, for Australians, who always get the a#se end of tech-product availability … and when we import, were faced with obscene price hikes of 200-300% and a long delivery period - that’s our normality.
Plex has to consider if their mutually beneficial partnership agreements - include or alienate the members who grow their platform
For now the Solution has been to change platforms entirely - annoying, but pragmatic.
I left MythTV for Plex, starting to consider moving back.
EPG integration with their 3rd party provider has missing listings which make the DVR unreliable.
