Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 Tuner not recognized

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Server Version#: 1.18.4.2171

I was trying to troubleshoot an issue I was having with an Ubuntu 18.04 server rebuild and found this thread:

Wintv dual HD tuner on Ubuntu

I could really use some help. I am trying to switch my Plex server over Ubuntu. I have Plex running, however I can not get it to recognize my tuner, I am sure it’s something simple, but I can’t figure it out. The device shows up when I run lsusb but not in Plex. Thanks for your help.

I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR2250 tuner in the server and it wasn’t recognized by plex. Found this support page Hauppauge Support | Running WinTV TV tuners and HD PVR 2 under Linux but when I followed the instructions it didn’t fix my problem. What did was this line in the post which supposedly didn’t apply:

sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-hauppauge

My system now sees the PCI tuner.