Two hdhomerun tuners; one OTA and one prime. OTA easy set up, and plex dvr recognizes immediately. Guide set up well with 28 or so channels. Hdhomerun view on xbox one and windows pc great! Just wish could pause, rewind etc. Plex client on Xbox one at times stutters currently - still hunting this issue. Channels and plex client on iOS and tvOS great! Found out that hdhomerun setup sw is separate from hdhomerun view - was confused at first by that. Also, channels is a separate purchase on iOS and then again on tvOS. Channels is a more polished hdhomerun view for apple devices.
Note, also tied PlayOn server to plex file store to capture from streaming sites.
Now is where things get interesting - hdhomerun prime and Comcast.
Prime needs a cable card and is picky. In my area only scientific Atlanta (Cisco) ones and ended up 2011 dated ones did not work but 2015 did.
Plex dvr recognized a second tuner! But…the first was antenna OTA and the new one is cable. The guide defaulted to OTA and almost no cable channels initially worked in plex dvr. I had to delete the tuners, add the prime first as cable, then the OTA one and map the OTA channels to the cable guide. So one guide for all tuners.
Non drm channels showed up great at all devices and clients. Note that roku can’t easily handle mpeg2 .ts from hdhomerun so live tv is harder with that and the tuners I have.
DRM channels currently can only be seen on the xbox one. Apple hasn’t blessed the Apple TV for drm, and the win pc/ plex is currently in the same boat.
That’s where PlayOn recording of xfinity stream, HBO go, prime video, Netflix others fill the gaps. It’s not perfect but…puts the stuff into plex.
Well, that’s good info… I’m chasing DRM channel issues and I’ve been thinking it was a tuning adapter issue, but seems like it could be a Mac DRM issue as that’s my platform for the Plex DVR. The HDHR software won’t play the DRM channels (San Diego, Spectrum = MOST channels DRM). My old Win7 machine won’t play the DRM channels from the HDHR prime either, however… so, I’m not really sure what else to check.
What’s frustrating is that I only want to record MSNBC (Left Coast, ya know!) into my Plex library so I can watch it anywhere when I’m traveling. This has been an incredible amount of work / frustration for that one little ask…
Thanks for your post!! If anyone else has ideas, I’m open to try something else! Thanks! - Geno
There is also a thread somewhere on here that describes how to manually add a second DVR using command line. Have not tried it myself but adding a second DVR would allow two different tuner configurations. Hopefully all of your OTA channels are rebroadcast by cable provider. Here in my area the cable provider only rebroadcasts the primary channels from what I can tell.
Geno Machino - understand, and wish I had an answer :-/
Johnm_ColaSC! You are right about adding a second DVR vs a second tuner on the same DVR - both are possible. Here’s the thread for the second DVR, created by hand rather than in the UI.
I’ve now tried both two DVR, with one tuner each, and one DVR with the two different tuners!
In the long run, the two DVR option may be the best - but NOT now. I want that so that I can focus most recording on the Antenna, and free up the cable tuners. With the two DVR option, you get two guides and one schedule (cool!), but there’s an issue where if you record a show, and both tuners can record it, they both try to AHHHHHHH. Not sure how to let the Plex gang know, but yuk!
With One DVR, the mapping of the antenna channels to the equivalent cable channels has been a good solution. I just don’t know how to prioritize the antenna tuners for as many shows as as they can record.
Here’s the picture with the two DVRs configured
Here’s a picture of a part of the recording schedule that happens when two DVRs can get to the same show to record.
