The HDHomeRun Premium TV feature is now live. I have signed up for the service ($35/month beats the socks off of what I’m paying for PS View at the moment!).
However, Plex will not show these channels (yet?)
To be clear, under Server Settings > Live TV & DVR the channels are listed there under Device Channels, but not under Guide Channels. If I check each of them off under Device Channels and then Save, unsurprisingly they still do not show up for viewing.
As was the case previously when trying to view HDHomeRun channels before Plex made viewing more robust, the trusty plugin HDHR Viewer 2 plays ALL of these new channels just fine! So for those of you you may have signed up for this new service from Silicon Dust, please note that all of the new channels currently work PERFECTLY through the HDHR Viewer 2 plug in.
Hopefully, Plex will get this straitened out soon (which I’m confident they will!)
Unless of course, I’m missing something - anyone else tried this out yet and have actually gotten Plex to play these new channels natively?
You may have to keep checking back. When this was first announced, I kept seeing “Coming Soon” as well. I happened to check early this morning and it was available for me so I immediately signed up.
Although Lon’s suggestion “works”, it still has its flaws (as he points out).
A few of the channels simply don’t line up. Even if you assign some of the Guide Channels, they refuse to play the correct channel content.
But, as I said, I’m sure Plex will fix this in the future.
In the meantime, a least we have at least a couple temporary solutions.
I have my hdhomerun connect quatro on my network and can be accessed via it’s IP address. Plex finds it without any issues but when I navigate to http://my.hdhomerun.com/ it says "No HDHomeRun detected.
Please connect the HDHomeRun to your router and refresh the page.
HDHomeRun PRIME: Please remove the CableCARD to allow detection to complete."
I have done the troubleshooting specified on silicondust’s website and still the same problem. The green light stays green and I can access it without any problems but that URL doesnt display my device. I also opened a ticket with silicondust and awaiting them to respond.
Are you running a VPN? When my VPN is active, I get the same error message on my.hdhomerun.com. Disconnecting the VPN allows me to access the site as normal.
So if I am following this correctly, the channels show up in Plex after subscribing? In the demo mode, I can’t get them to show up in Plex; however, I see them perfectly in the HDHR App.
The biggest problem seems to be the lack of a guide that encompasses all my OTA+Cable channels. I have some over the air channels that don’t seem to be on any of the local Cable provider guides. So if I choose an OTA guide I can’t map in the extra cable channels, if I choose a cable guide then I can’t map in some of the OTA channels.
Perhaps SiliconDust or Gracenote needs to create a Local OTA + Cable guide that Plex and others can use for this rather unique advance in technology.
I’m traveling at the moment but this feature does interest me, time to re-plug that HDHR Extend Duo.
I wonder what the quality IP Streams are they.
Could someone make a recording without any transcoding and get the media info on them?
I plan to test the quality myself later. I discovered some weird program delays on a few channels where the program airing now is listed in the guide hours earlier. It seems like it’s receiving a pacific coast feed while the guide is setup for east coast. Not all the channels are doing that though which makes it strange. Hopefully that’s just a glitch that they’ll get fixed shortly.
But, as far as the quality, some on the SiliconDust forums are saying it’s 720p at 29.97fps and 2 channel audio. That’s pretty bad if that’s the case. We’ll see later this evening.
Edit: I also just found a reply in one of the threads from SiliconDust saying they weren’t happy with the feed quality either so they were working with the supplier to address the issue.
Yeah the bitrate is pretty low. 2.2Mbps on most of the streams. Anything with motion or fast transitions gets really blocky/blurred. Hopefully they get the bit rate up a bit. Other than the low bitrates, it has been working fairly reliably for me.
The timezone chart on their website explains why some channel programming is way off. It will cause an issue with attempting to DVR a show when the expected time is on pacific time.
I’m seeing a bitrate close to 2.2 Mbps also. Upon further research the 720p Stereo isn’t that bad when compared to everyone else, Maybe they are trying to be conservative so the stream can support 4 streams on most connections.
I signed up for this last night, and I’m really loving it. It works great in the HDHomeRun app on my Fire TV, but the channels are now showing up in my DVR settings in Plex too.
The only issue is that Plex sees the new channels but doesn’t know how to match them since they’re co-mingled with OTA channels.
