Fresh start for Live TV & DVR?

Plex Media Server
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Hoping someone knows the path to where Tuners and tv guide caches are stored on PMS (Debian Bookworm).

I’m seeing all sort of errors in log as Plex is trying to find an old tuner and related tv guide data even though I deleted the old tuner and it says it’s been marked as dead.

Just want to start fresh with live tv & dvr as it would be way too much work to start again wifh PMS.

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This should do what you want.

  1. Delete your existing DVR from Plex Media Server if it still exists. (Optionally delete any scheduled recordings before doing so.)
  2. Stop PMS.
  3. Back up your existing Plex database (path below).
  4. Assuming you installed the native Linux package with all default paths, run the following:
    sudo "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex SQLite" "/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" "DELETE FROM media_provider_resources;"
  5. Back up and then delete all files starting with “tv.plex.providers.epg.*” from
/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/
  1. Start PMS.

This should remove all traces of the DVR and TV from your system. It will however leave any schedule recordings in-place. You can delete those as part of step 1 if you’d like.

If anything goes wrong, you should be able to recover by restoring the databases you backed up in steps 3 and 5. If it were me, I’d probably back up the entire Plex data directory in step 3, just to be safe.

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I really thought that would do it but sadly, that didn’t fix it. The errors keep coming in the logs. I use a standard XML file but from the logs the entries are ghosts from past xmls.

PMS: 1.41.5.9522-a96edc606 (amd64)
OS: Linux plex 6.8.12-9-pve #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC PMX 6.8.12-9 (2025-03-16T19:18Z) x86_64 GNU/Linux
XML: http://xmltv.net/xml_files/Melbourne.xml`

Plex_Media_Server.log (379.2 KB)
Plex_Tuner_Service.log (6.0 KB)

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Did you delete all of your previously-scheduled recordings? Those errors suggest that it’s trying to refresh its subscriptions (scheduled recordings) but is unable to because the guide data no longer matches.

If you do still have old scheduled recordings it would be best to delete them and start over. If you’ve got a bunch to delete, you can whack them all with:
sudo "/usr/lib/plexmediaserver/Plex SQLite" "/var/lib/plexmediaserver/Library/Application Support/Plex Media Server/Plug-in Support/Databases/com.plexapp.plugins.library.db" "DELETE FROM media_subscriptions;"

Again, database backups are the order of the day.

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spot on - that was the issue - thanks again.

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You’re welcome, glad you got it sorted!

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