Is LIVE IPTV Supported via M3U - YES or NO? I cant's find a straight forward answer

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I have been a Premium Plex User for many years but am seriously considering switching to Emby due to the lack of support for real-time IPTV TV Services.

I have looked everywhere on the Plex Forums and beyond to find a simple way of integrating my M3U service into PLEX on my NAS system but to no avail. CIGARAS says Plugins are no longer available, Xteve looks complicated etc. Emby at least has the service built into the server and has a simple setup with the option to recode live or schedule from streams.

Can anyone tell me is there an easy solution to integrate an IPTV Service with EPG guide into PLEX or not. I love PLEX, but if not then after these many years, Auf Wiedersehen.

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Xteve is not complicated and the easiest solution for IPTV and Plex.

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I integrate with tvheadend to get regular live tv and iptv services into one. Not hard to setup at either. BTW - what iptv service you use?

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Thanks I will give it a try and also try Xteve again. Glad for the help from Forum users.

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Anyone can explain who install and configure XTEVE on Docker (I use a Synology NAS).

Thanks

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I use this docker image:


What exactly is your issue?

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Well, I don’t control the use of docker much.

I use a Synology NAS where I have PLEX installed. I have installed that image in the docker, I have since port 34401 (port 34400 is used by plexdrive) is redirected to 34400 but I don’t know what else to do. :frowning:

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If you have set up the docker container, you continue here:

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Now I have managed to access the web interface and put the data.

The problem is that like the image of thejf / antennas
When I configure it and enter the plex to configure the “virtual” device appears but disappears after a few seconds. And it doesn’t matter that you put the direct IP manually.

I don’t know if it will be something from the NAS.

NOTE: DVBLOGIC is a DVB-C usb tunner installed but the other device appears for a few seconds, but always disappears in seconds.

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Did you try the correct IP and port manually? It doesn’t always show up for me either, but manually putting the IP and port works.

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Do I need really a media server if at any random thing I have to do a bunch of specialized actions.
C’mon plex is this for home use or for software engineers? Can we have a decent support (could be in premium subscription or whatever)?

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What are you asking here??? xTeVe I don’t think it hard and you can try and get support from them as Plex is not making this product.

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Plex itself simply does not support IPTV. End of story. The rest you have to take care of yourself.

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Integrate with tvheadend, it works like a champ. Can combine OTA and IPTV in a custom channel lineup by doing a custom xmltv.xml file for EPG.

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Well its about time they DID! Like many I have a premium licence and yet a competitive product such as EMBY or even its open source equivalent has live IPTV with ONE .m3U feed, channel matching and even recording scheduling built-in to the server. So much so that I now have both installed and use EMBY to watch IPTV and record my TV channels. I know that sound stupid but it’s easier than all this latter-day alchemy. Its getting to the point where I am now dropping PLEX (which is a pity) as EMBY also does everything I want.

Not EVERYONE is an IT person so to create something simple (they only have to install an EMBY server and see how they do it) is not a lot to ask for Premium Subscribers is it???

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You mean for people that obtain access to illegally supplied tv channels? Sorry, my pity for not supporting this is limited. And I can completely understand the decision for not supporting this directly.
Emby also supplies direct access to schedules direct which is clearly against SD’s TOS. They also have a guy in their forums who more or less openly offers iptv access, which is probably against the law in every country around the globe.

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