I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask but the FTA provider in the UK (Freeview) has announced that all channels will be made available via IP with a full guide in a new service called Freely. I was wondering if it will be possible to use their Guide and Streams as a Tuner in Plex as I suspect the idea will be to slowly migrate OTA broadcast across to all IP in the future. Alas I don’t know if this is going to be Multicast or simply IP streams as this hasn’t been announced yet.
I thought I heard of a program that would “emulate” a DVR device that Plex could then pick up. If you point this program at an IPTV source, you could in theory then tune to the channel via Plex, allowing recordings. I tried browsing through my saved bookmarks looking for it, but failed to find it. If anyone else knows what I am referring to, I’d like to know.
You would, however, need access to the stream itself. If the Freely service is locked down to requiring you to use their site or specific client, it’s doubtful you could find the correct URL to use in this program I was thinking of.
xTeVe?
Never used it, but I’ve seen it mentioned on the forum.
Thank you all for the input. Once Freely launches next year I will see if I can get it to work using the above.
There’s a few, telly, xteve and threadfin (which is the newest fork of xteve I believe).
There’s not a lot of support or official advice for xteve etc from plex, because there is an underlying nature of a lot of pirated iptv around… I just want to preface this and say I don’t use this, I’ve made my own m3u playlist from a mixture of freeview channels and samsung tv plus which are broadcast to iptv anyway. Unfortunately channel functionality can be quite hit and miss, bbc channels just don’t seem to work within plex via xteve… but I do have channel 4 and some other more niche channels I like like the waterbear network etc.
Its a complete faff, but a large part of that is me having to bodge job a m3u and xml together to make it work. Recording works too.
I’m eagerly watching the freely project and really hoping there’ll be a playlist and epg available, or one thats easy to extract. I find it very frustrating in the UK that this isn’t provided any considering we pay a tv license for live tv, then that tv should be available for us to consume in the manner we choose, and IPTV is not by any means new technology.
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