So I’m a day one subscriber of the released HDHomerun Premium channels and am having problems with the guide data. I’m getting OTA channels and these premium channels. For now, I’ve picked my local cable company as it has most of my OTA and HDHR premium channels so that I can get guide data.
Is there a chance that Plex will allow for picking both the OTA and HDHR premium channels so that my lineup can be correct?
Hopefully - it would probably be easy to pair the hdhomerun cable channels (as they don’t change) as an addon to the normal antenna channels
I have the same question. I see all the chqnnels, but the right hand mapping only goes to channel 68.
What do i need to do to get the channels to show up on the right side for mapping?
Did you register your HDHomeRun tuners with your service in the order? After you associate your tuners, you have to power cycle your HDHomeRun(s) for the channls to show up and not say “Demo” after each one when you look at the Channel Lineup on the HDHomeRun itself. I also marked all of them as favorites just in case.
Also if you already had DVR configured in Plex, you need to delete it and then add it again.
If the channels not in demo mode on the HDHomeRun, you can watch them for more than 2 minutes, and you have already deleted the DVR in Plex, then I would try rebooting the Plex server after deleting the DVR and see if that helps.
I think you misread what I’m asking. At the moment, Plex will only allow for one EPG listing source and of course cable channels are not available in the OTA listings and cable listings do not necessarily carry all OTA channels.
The question I am posing is can Plex provide a mechanism that gets both the OTA EPG data as well as the HDHR Premium listings?
When i went to add a new DVR (i did NOT delete the old one), it asked what source. I told it cable instead of antenna.
I got a list of all channels on the “left” side - from the HD HomeRun in the 1000-1400 range - and on the right where I was to “map” it, the only channels I get are up to 69 - the “OTA” channels.
How can I associate/map these channels, and when THEY get mapped, how do I then map my OTA channels?
It is a bit confusing, and firmly believe this WILL WORK, but I think Plex needs to have a bit of a better interface into the HD HomeRun…
That will work too, but it is pretty much the same thing as what I said about being able to map channels from multiple lineups. BTW, I left my HDHomeRun CONNECT tuners on Antenna and was still able to map most of the channels using local Cable listings. There are a few OTA subchannels that had no mapping.
Right. That’s what I’m saying. I have OTA channels that do not map to cable company’s listings. I’d like to be able to have guide data for ALL of my channels.
Me too! I actually just looked at my Emby installation and was able to add Schedules Direct twice, once for OTA and once for Cable, and map all channels correctly. I hope Plex can do something similar with Gracenote.
To add another wrinkle to this, folks like me who are used to east coast feeds have some other troubles:
Why are shows playing at the wrong time? And why are shows not matched up to the channel guide?
Premium TV has two airing regions: East coast and West coast. The majority of America will receive the East coast feed. The west coast will receive the West coast feed. For everyone in the west coast, your feed should behave exactly like every other west coast cable provider. The people on the east coast will mostly see the same as other east coast providers, however, USA, FX, SYFY, Paramount Network, TruTV, Comedy Central, Discovery, TLC, Bravo, Animal Planet, MTV, VH1, CMT, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Freeform will all air at at their west coast time slots.If you are grabbing your own guide data for use with a 3rd party, you will need to choose west coast slots for these channels. Guide data should be correct on the official HDHomeRun apps and any apps that have provided official updates with their own supplied guide data.
I’m assuming that Plex will somehow handle this in terms of having a correct EPG for these west coast channels. What a mess.
Yes, the timezones are something I haven’t even really looked at yet. I suppose you would have to enter multiple zip codes to get different data and then match it to which channels are broadcasting in those timezones.
Yes, but as far as I can tell, this is not something we can do with Plex at the moment. I cannot schedule any recordings on any of those channels nor know what is playing.
I originally posted this in hopes that someone from Plex would pipe in and say they are working on a fix but that hasn’t happened. I’ve searched the forum to see if there might be a thread going that speaks to this but did not find anything. I totally understand that this service is only a few days old and this stuff should all get hashed out but I’d feel better having some reassurance that a fix is in the works.
I got it working.
I set up the HD HomeRun on Antenna. I saw all my OTA channels, AND all the new channels.
I went into plex and deleted my existing DVR.
I rebooted my HD HomeRun (Since Plex didnt see it for some reason).
In Plex, I added a new DVR (HDHomeRun) and told it to connect as CABLE. It chose the wrong cable company/guide, but I was albe to choose my guide (Cablevision Woodbury DIGITAL). Had to choose digital to get me the cablevision upper channels.
I then just went through all the channels and made sure the mappings were correct. Most were, but a few were BLANK or had wrong channels.
Took about 15 mins of mapping.
After completion, it built the guide, and I was then able to select all my shows from ALL channels for recording.
I hope this synopsis helps anyone looking for a quick and dirty HOW TO guide!!
Lon.TV put together a review of the HDHomeRun Premium service and a Plex DVR Configuration How to video. https://youtu.be/_Hd3jhVgtmQ
His description of the Plex configuration makes sense and is very detailed. He deletes his OTA configuration and then reinstalls with the Cable configuration and then maps the OTA to the Cable equivalent.
His review of the HDHomeRun Premium service is here https://youtu.be/YetNR_fFm3k
I have an order in for a HDHomeRun Connect Quatro, so I do NOT have any experience with this yet. I will update once I get the box installed and configured.
It is a mess and it doesn’t look like Silicondust is fixing the feeds anytime soon, could we please get help from Plex dev to work on this one?, it shouldn’t be too difficult, we need at least two channel mappings for HDHomeRun Premium TV at least for now, one for the West Feed and one for the East Feed which is the one with most issues as it contains mixed feeds from both east and west.
yes, please!
any idea if this is planned or when we might see it? I see I can import it if i buy another DVR service but I’d prefer to just get it like I get everything else today through PLex.
It’s pretty sad that we have to beg Plex employees to provide this sort of information. A simple “we’re working on it” or “we’re not planning on doing it anytime soon” would be more than adequate for me. DVR is only for paying customers so some level of support and/or communication is expected.
I wrote a program to fetch the guide, there is a windows and python client.
I appreciate your effort and sharing but the four hour limit for non DVR subscribers is a no go for me. I’m using epg123 right now as I have a schedules direct subscription until November
A Plex integrated solution is the only real answer for me.
