I noticed a newsflash from plex saying it added a bunch of extra support for tv tuners and not requiring a hdhomerun. I have updated to latest plex server, am a plex pass member, it cannot find my Hauppauge 2250, I think that was the model, it is the top of the line internal tuner with dual tuner capabilities. all digital HD, the works, whats wrong here? I see they mentioned USB, are they not supporting the internal ones? I didn’t think windows drivers would even make a difference, once its recognized as a tuner its in the device list. it works flawless with wintv8 on windows 10. anyone got it to work?
guess I could rob my xbox of the Hauppauge usb tuner if I had too, but that seems wasteful. the scan just runs and runs, or gives me an option to enter ip address, it will not take local host as the address.
next step is trying to turn on the web based broadcast service in the wintv8 software, not sure if that is going to help any
I’m having the same problem. I have two internal PCI express cards, a Hauppage 2250 and a later model Hauppage 2255. Both have dual tuners, so I have a total of 4 tuners. When I hit the button to setup the DVR, it just searches and searches, and never finds anything. I’ve tried localhost in the manual configuration and that doesn’t work either.
I don’t have the wintv8 software installed, just the drivers. I’ve been using Media Portal 2 for DVR together with MCEBuddy to copy over to Plex folder. That was a real pain to set up, I even had to cobble together a powershell script to handle tv guide listing updates. I would love to be able to move it all over to Plex, but I didn’t want to spend the extra money to buy a HDHomeRun system, so I, too, was really excited this morning to see that Hauppage support is supposed to be available.
yeah I was browsing the list, looks like 4 Hauppauge tuners are specifically listed, a HDdual? the picture is of a usb model not an internal one. Some single tuner usb model 9XXX something, and HDquad, the pictured card is a pci-e card, and the xbox one usb tuner. it seems to me that interfacing with these cards would be pretty much the same for Hauppauge tuners, they are either single tuners, dual tuners, or quad tuners. windows finds the drivers and wintv8 doesn’t give a crap which model you have. but maybe plex is being too specific on models. when I get home I am going to connect the xbox usb tuner and see if it will recognize it, its also a Hauppauge product and I have wintv8, not sure how it will respond to multiple tuners, but I will see if it can detect it.
thanks for your post, this clears up a thought in my head, the idea that maybe wintv8 is controlling the card not allowing access from other programs similar to how you cannot run Hyper-V and Oracle VB at the same time without turning one or the other off as only one device can connect to the virtual controller in the processor architecture.
I have the XBox tuner plugged in and when I go to kick off the wizard to setup the DVR it doesn’t seem to even bother looking for the USB tuner – all network.
It’s listed under /dev/bus/usb within my Plex server… Not sure if I need anything else installed though.
AshTray900, I have pretty much the same worry, except with Media Portal 2 instead of wintv8, that it might be preventing the Plex server from finding the tuners. I will check it tonight from home by stopping the Media Portal and MCEBuddy services and then try the search again.
It is likely (no matter how much we wish otherwise) that the 2250 and 2255 are just not supported yet.
So is it working for you with the xbox usb tuner??
@carpenike said:
I have the XBox tuner plugged in and when I go to kick off the wizard to setup the DVR it doesn’t seem to even bother looking for the USB tuner – all network.
It’s listed under /dev/bus/usb within my Plex server… Not sure if I need anything else installed though.
I cant tell what its doing when searching, it just spins, it only allows you to specify a network address but this makes sense as you cant really specify a piece of hardware in windows without it first searching to see what you have that is compatible, presumably it would bring up your tuner or a list if you had more than one so you could pick one, turning on the wintv8 extend and trying to connect to its web service fails
I do have a win 7 box with an antiquated first gen pci card in it, it is digital, and its gold plated lol maybe I should reserve the ip of that machine and plug it into the address lmao, I think this card was the very first digital tuner that came out, its an ATI tv wonder or something
I’m using Windows 10 too. I was using Windows Media Center. I switched to Media Portal 2 about a year ago when I upgraded to Windows 10 before Microsoft discontinued the free upgrades. I knew I was going to lose Media Center support, so I held off on the upgrade as long as I could. I miss Media Center. It was so much better than any other DVR software that I’ve tried, but I didn’t want to be stuck on an old version of Windows. I’ve been considering shelling out for an HDHomeRun for Plex, because Media Portal 2 is not really easy to use. That’s why I was pretty excited to see the Hauppage support this morning. The quad4 is pretty close to what I have, so I was hoping it would work.
same boat, I waited and finally gave in and got the pro version of 10 since I had 7 ultimate, lost media center, it worked well, very well, had poor compression though and only had one freaking device that supported it, the xbox 360, well that and some unknown never sold ceteon box or something, it was going plex was never going to pick it up, a great thing that became something of the past, however plex is absolutely the best thing for personal media libraries since hard drives reached a size you could actually store them on. I’m NOT buying a stupid hdhomerun, I have 2 internal hd tuners, one of them is a dual tuner that has all the bells and whistles, and an xbox usb one that is working on my xbox one very well, it is the strongest receiver in my entire house, xbox will soon probably add recording capabilities for the xbox one (I hope) or plex will get with the program and develop DVR on the lines of how it used to work for WMC, even if I have to use the server to schedule the recordings and get no live stream in plex, all I need is a tv guide built in, the ability to schedule recurring programs and have them added to a library of my choosing for later watching, if nobody I currently do business with picks this up I’m just freaking forgetting it, I’m not buying a tablo, no more hardware, all I want to do is record the few programs that aren’t on PS vue or any other service I have like Netflix, hulu, sling etc, like “in the heat of the night” lmao
thanks for the info on the xbox one Hauppauge usb tuner not being listed, this way I don’t have to waste time cutting zip ties, moving my nice antenna and pulling the tuner from the xbox
just got my hopes up seeing that email that went out today, they sent this out way too prematurely, its not ready until it can detect any modern Hauppauge tuner and add it properly, being beta its allowed to be missing functionality, but when they say we added Hauppauge support and it still cannot find the hardware, they need to retract that statement. if anyone here has gotten it to work with any Hauppauge device let us know the DL on it, howed you do it?
I will crawl back into my hole and forget plex sent the email out and enjoy it for my personal media library since this is the thing it surpasses all the rest by a million miles (and the only thing) the app channels are crap, I removed that from my server as it was just utterly useless especially since many were not programmed by plex and are a use at your own risk type of deal
I have the hauppauge wintv-quadHD in my windows 10 box that’s also running PMS plexpass. But, it doesn’t detect anything. Yes, seems Plex has jumped the gun with their emails and announcements.
AshTray900, PlayOn (http://www.playon.tv) works really well for recording videos off of Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube. I have one of their lifetime subscriptions. It integrates well with Plex too. Hulu and Netflix recordings for TV shows are saved with names that Plex can parse, so mostly you can just add your PlayOn folder into a Plex TV library, and it just works.
The DVR recordings are the biggest pain point I have right now. The cobbled-together system with Media Portal 2 + MCEBuddy + custom PowerShell script + Plex mostly works for me, but it’s pretty fragile and not very easy to use. Like you, I don’t really need the Live TV, just basic easy to use DVR capabilities.
oh I have windows 10, I thought someone else said they had the xbox tuner and win 10 and it didn’t work, I do have that tuner also on my xbox, I’m not removing my 2250 as my machine is huge and has like 1000 wires on it, but I will plug the xbox tuner into the usb port and see how it goes, I do have a fully licensed copy of wintv8
