Just posted a new release for this. It turns out that pretty much all episodes need a original-air-date value that includes the time in order to be considered unique… it would not, say, show your nightly news programs as being different airings. That has been fixed in v1.2.5.20.
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I just subscribed to HDHomerun Premium and having same issue as Otis. I believe his suggestion would be the solution to this and others’ problems. I’m in MTN timezone and most of the channels’ guide data is read correctly, but there are a few that are not. For example, the Freeform guide data Plex pulls and displays is from the East Coast but the actually HDHomerun stream lines up with MTN timezone program listings (verified with TVguide.com). Some other channels have Pacific program stream but East Coast guide data. I haven’t checked all the new channels, but there are at least 4 that are inaccurate for me.
Being able to select multiple guide data sources and assign them to specific channels when setting up the DVR would definitely solve this issue. There is guide data for the HDHomerun Prime TV, but I can’t select that AND get my OTA guide data as well. I hope this can be fixed.
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I’d hope it would be fixed too but sadly, months later, not a word from Plex. They won’t even say if they are working on it. I stopped thinking that this is going to ever happen. Sad.
I was just messing around and deleted my DVR to put it back in place with different guide data, I noticed quite a few new options:
Philo.TV
HDHR Premium East
HDHR Premium West
YouTubeTV
I did not try it out as I cancelled my HDHR Premium, but thought Id led y’all know in case you weren’t aware.
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The HD Homerun Premium channels are there, but the OTA channels are missing. There does not seem to be a way to map to the OTA channels. You can choose either cable or antenna and get the same results. At least they seem to be working on it.
I don’t know that this indicates they are working on it. Schedules direct added the hdhomerun listings a few months ago. I’m pretty sure that Plex uses those same listings via gracenote. It sure would be nice if they finally let us use multiple EPG sources.
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Gracenote listings and schedules plus are completely different
I think this needs a server update for multi schedules
What’s schedules plus? Of course PMS will need to be updated for this to happen.
There was some talk early in dvr that they would allow cable and antenna to function at the same time - this would allow this to work
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Can you provide a link to that post? This is something I’ve been eagerly awaiting. Thanks.
Either I made it up or I can’t find it. Apologies
I cannot get the epg123.xmltv file to load on my NAS (WD) server. I have tried every possible combination I can think of, but I still get the message “Unable to load channel mappings”. Just for kicks, I set up a Plex server on my laptop, and everything works just fine. Any ideas?
Don’t mean to be rude, but perhaps start a new thread?
No activity in 29 days, figured I keep this post active. Any word from Plex on incorporating the HD Homerun premium guide data?
Opened a ticket with SiliconDust, their response …
It’s up to Plex to add support for multiple channel lineups. The guide data is available from their provider for the Premium TV channels on both east and west coast versions, but Plex currently only lets you pick an OTA lineup or a Premium TV lineup, not both. We have provided them with the information they would need from us to do it, but it’s up to them to decide to do it and actually implement it.
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- Silicondust Support
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This has always been the case. I’ve given up that this will ever happen. I recently tried Jellyfin (Emby fork project) and it works out of the box with multiple lineups. I’m seriously considering abandoning Plex despite having a lifetime subscription. I should have never purchased the subscription but at the time I was disillusioned in thinking that a real support system existed and that the devs would add features that the users wanted. This is definitely not the case for me.
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I gave up and bought the $25 subscription to Schedules Direct per year… I use epg123, that runs once a night, and dumps the new xml file, then Plex does it nighttime tasks which refreshes the guide data. Schedules direct already has a line up built for Silicondust’s offering. It also lets me bring in tv guide data from different cities. That is what works for me, I wish it was free, but atleast it works. I had been trying to use the local cable company, but since 1/2 the channels with Silicondust are east coast and the other are west coast, the wife acceptance factor was low.
I’m interested in knowing more specific detail in how to accomplish this as you described and how you are setup for your media. My Plex media server is running on a WD NAS and I have not tried anything other than the same things as others have in terms of getting the DVR and guide that works for both OTA and Premium TV (and not satisfied). Are you using epg123 on a windows machine and also using the same machine for the server or ? It seems for me that I would have to use epg123 on my windows machine to create the desired xml but then unsure how to then setup PMS on the NAS to refresh the data. Any information would be appreciated.
Use epg123 to create the xmltv in a directory that Plex can access and then set up DVR to use that xmltv file. Map your channels and you are done. You’ll want to set up a task to generate a new xmltv file everyday using epg123. I wasn’t able to get epg123 to do it from the gui, but I was able to set up a task using command line call
Yes, I have a Windows machine. This machine also runs playon, which I rarely need to use.
The gist of the operation is that epg123 generates the XMLTV on the windows machine (c:\programdata\GaRyan2\epg123\output\epg123.xmltv. It is a scheduled task in windows ( set to run at 7:35 pm.
I have a plex library that lives on my synology nas at lets say 192.168.2.10. The file share is exposed as a samba file share. This is where plex is expecting the XMLTV file to be placed. On the windows server a scheduled task that runs at 8:35 pm is a .bat file that does the following:
copy /Y c:\programdata\GaRyan2\epg123\output\epg123.xmltv \ 192.168.2.10\somefolder\EPG\epg123.xmltv
This does 2 things:
- Pulls down the updated listing from schedules direct as an XMLTV file
- Copies the newly generated XMLTV file to the Plex server.
If you have any more questions, just let me know.
