I have a Plex DVR setup on Windows which is working great. I formerly used WMC for all my DVR and Live TV needs with a xbox 360 as an extender. Since Plex is still implementing live tv, I planned to use WMC for my live tv viewing. Ever since I setup Plex DVR, WMC cannot find the tuners. Does Plex DVR “reserve” or “lockout” the tuners for use preventing WMC access? BTW I have an HDHomerun Prime and the Viewer app seems to still work fine with windows.
Interesting,…
I don’t think setting up a SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime tuner with Plex DVR should effect its use with other applications.
I’d suggest that you check the settings in the SiliconDust software used to setup the tuners with Media Center. If those settings have changed it could cause a problem. Also you might want to make sure your HDHomeRun Prime has the latest firmware installed.
Nothing has changed. The only thing that has changed was to install PMS and setup the DVR. I have the latest firmware and it is setup to use WMC.
Plex does not lock a tuner from other software, the HDHR would lock a tuner when it is in use by any software such as Plex, WMC, Emby, VLC, etc. The HDHR is basically functioning as a server on your network to provide services to any client that makes a request to use a tuner. Plex utilizes the HDHR as a server by issuing a request of the HDHR to play whatever is on a particular channel whenever a recording starts or someone wants to watch Live TV. For example, a recording I just manually requested shows this in the log: http://10.0.1.22:5004/auto/v35.1. So Plex requested the HDHR server device at 10.0.1.22 play whatever is on channel 35.1. I can put that same URL into VLC to request to play whatever is on a channel available on the tuner. The HDHR then determines what tuner it has available and assigns that tuner to the client requesting the service. You can check the status of tuners by going to my.hdhomerun.com and clicking on your HDHR device and then clicking tuner status. Once all available tuners are in use the HDHR device would reject new requests. So if you have a HDHR Prime with three tuners: two tuners are in use with people viewing Live TV and one tuner is in use for a recording the next request for a tuner would be rejected by the HDHR with an error. You would see an entry in the Plex log when the HDHR rejects the request, error would look something like: Server returned an error 5XX.
Knowing that I have to ask.
If you have two systems setup to use the HDHomeRun Prime, one Plex DVR and the other WMC (or some other software) but a request for the same channel at the same time were made by both (35.1 as per your example),…should that generate an error?
One would think if digital channel 35.1 is currently being tuned then it should be able to be served out to all that request it simultaneously. Its when an attempt to tune dissimilar channels beyond the max number of the three available tuners that an error should be generated?
Or no?
Based on comments on other threads dealing with Live TV I would believe that the tuner device would allow more than one connection to the same stream. Seen other comments mentioning two or more different requests from devices they were using (iPhone, iPad, Android TV) and only seeing one tuner in use on a HDHR device. But that might have only been Plex realizing it was currently streaming the same channel and sending the current stream to multiple devices. Really not sure if WMC and Plex were requesting the same stream on channel 35.1 would the HDHR use that same stream for both services or would the HDHR utilize two tuners.
Ok so I think I the problem was with some windows services. Everything seems to be working good now.
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