I am running on a current Fire TV Cube (2019) and three Fire TV Stick 4K. The version of Plex I am running is the one downloaded from Amazon.
Live TV dies. Sometimes in just a few minutes, sometime it goes more than an hour, either way, I get:
! Error
An error occurred while attempting to play this video. Please check
your connection and try again.
The Fire TV Cube and the Fire TV 4k both running version 8.13.1.23036. I am running a HDHomeRun Connect Quatro, HDHR5-4US, Firmware 20210210
A few months ago I reinstalled HDHomerun on each Fire TV, it runs SOLID on Live TV.
With Plex, I have NO problems streaming content that’s stored in my libraries. Not to derail the thread, but I thought I would mention:
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Back in 2019 when I first began using Plex, I discovered that with the configuration I had, I was unable to watch the same live channel on two TV’s at once. The work-around was to turn off “convert video while recording”.
[Tuning in to same channel on more then or more TV's fails] -
Shortly after that gave up on using the Live TV DVR to record. The reason is the recordings would often not complete. I got lucky here and there and an entire episode would have recorded to the end, but rarely. I even set up a two Plex servers, one on my Synology and the other on a Win10 machine. Both had the same issue, the recordings would often be incomplete. I gave up on it and became a subscriber to YouTube TV. I may need to test this again, as the server software has been updated a number of times since I quit using the DVR.
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Plex Live TV still was useful. It gave me a TV guide and did not count against my data usage from my ISP. But starting several months ago, it began bombing out so often that I gave up on it.
I would like to ‘fix’ this. I’ve considered replacing my Fire TV extenders (with Roku?)… or trying out different software (Channels?) … but really hoping the Plex fixes it.
[Lifetime Plex Pass purchased in 2015]
