Hello,
i don’t know if this is the right section. I would like to understand if i can use plex on my synology NAS also for watching my television. unfortunatly on the liveTV there is only US tv which is not mine… I have a list of free iptv channels of my country which are on a m3u file but i don’t know if plex allow me to inser it somewhere.
Someone know the feasibility of it?
Thansk in advance
Plex has no support for IPTV.
You can only fool Plex into believing that it accesses a TV tuner device. There is software out there which can take an m3u of IPTV sources and turn it into a virtual TV tuner device.
One is called Xteve, the other tvheadend.
I searched in internet about this xteve, if i correctly understood i have to install it on my NAS and through such application i can import the m3u list file. What is not clear is how to install such application on my NAS. I donwloaded the file but the extation is not installable on my NAS. I have a synology DS416play. someone know how to install it? Otherwise I will have to resign myself using two distinct applications.
I’m afraid Xteve can only run on Windows.
tvheadend is a Linux app, but is the more powerful of the two and therefore requires more Linux and general know-how and effort to configure.
Uh, Otto… XTeve is downloadable for Windows, OS X, Linux and FreeBSD on x86, and Linux on ARM. Closed source.
tvHeadend is a good piece of software, you’ll also need tvhProxy in between PMS and tvHeadend (this is what I’m running.)
Thanks, I stand corrected then.
Still, it doesn’t run directly on a Synology box, so the OP has to find another computer in his network which is powered on 24/7.
Agree with that.
I should also point out that in addition to the obvious requisite Linux knowledge, tvHeaded is a highly flexible and configurable application. There is a decidedly non-zero learning curve with getting it up and running.
xTeve does appear run on synology, (at least it seems to on my DS1815+) I just copied it to the nas and then started it using the command line. and I see it. and so does Plex:
But as for setting it up… no idea
Oh, awesome!
Unfortunately I have no idea how to configure it, since I’ve never used it myself.
You just ‘run’ it and add a new playlist with your M3U. Incredibly simple setup. Pick if you will have plex grab the guide or if it will be provided via xmltv and that’s about it. You can turn on a buffer to allow for some additonal features.
After a bit of fiddling about I have managed to get it to display a couple of BBC iptv streams (probably only works if in the uk) in an m3u file.
And they both play in the Live TV & DVR Section:
xTeve and Plex are both running on my nas
Which type of xteve have you installed on your NAS? Where you copied it? Which command line did you use? I would like to do the same on my NAS… thanks in advance!
ok,
So I grabbed the ‘Linux - 64 Bit’ version
unzipped the download and copied it to my nas
Then opened an ssh connection to the nas and ran the command
for example: if you put xteve in
/volume1/software/xteve
then in ssh, just enter:
/volume1/software/xteve
That should launch xteve and give you some info.
by default I think it runs on port 34400
So if you open the ipaddress of your nas e.g. 192.168.1.56:34400
(Change the ip address above to the address for your nas)
you should get to the settings page.
question, how did you launch the xteve application? which command did you use on your NAS? i tried typing “xteve”, “run xteve” or “start xteve” but all those are not working…
from the xteve site I donwloaded the xteve_linux_amd64_Intel version. what did I do wrong?
Found it! the command is “./xteve” 
… no i will try to figure out how to configure it! Thanks till now for great support!
now i run the xteve app, i selected the m3u file. Plex is showing the tuner but no channel avaialble. someone know why?
Now is the challenging part… and this is just what I have/did
I had to try it a few times, so maybe delete the tuner and re-add it
(and I used the local web app, the one on the nas not the hosted one)
In the xTeve Settings:
I setup a playlist:
Then in the settings I have set the EPG Source to PMS:
and this is what I have set under Streaming:
Then in Plex DVR Settings I get this to allow me to map the channels:
and just to add I would start with just a small number of channels in your m3u file, not some massive list you found on the internet and make sure they work.
I test mine by trying to open the link in VLC
Everithing now it’s working… the issues was that XMLTV was not assigned. Now i have assigned the xteve Dummy and evething works well. Thansk very much to all of you for the support!
Other question… now everything works well but I have a doubt… up to now, using putty through SSH connection I start xteve application. While putty is live everything works… of course this means I must keep a laptop open… someone know how I can run the script directly from DSM Synology?
