Hi there,
let me describe my setup at home for you first:
- live in Germany
- have 2 providers for tv in the home (Unitymedia DVB-C and Telekom-Entertain via IPTV)
- I use tvheadend to combine the two
- DVB-C (actually its dvbc2) is provided by an OctopusNet A8 SAT>IP server
- My current solution to connect to Plex was tvhProxy
Now, playing with the new tuner options I can say that the Octopus is discovered, it finds channels, I can record and view liveTV. Also multiple channels at the same time so far as I can see.
What bothers me, is that the channel line up between my two providers is different (slightly) and I now have no choice to select a different provider for matching the channels on my “second tuner”. So potentially loose some channels from one of the networks…
Is there a way (some json endpoint maybe to add a second DVR into the same PMS) or thoughts to lift these limits? I remember a discussion the slack DVR dev channel in winter with @elan but the team at that time first wanted to work on using tuners/sat>ip in general.
Anyone else having a mixed setup?
Cheers
Alex
I have seen similar requests in the forum a few times and for my case it would be 2 antennas pointing different directions where one can get fox and another abc. It sounded like the option was to only select the channels from one device but I think what you are asking about allowing more config per tuner would be helpful for a lot of folks.
Yes I have the same in the UK
I have a HDHomerun for dvb-t and a megasat SAT>IP Tuner and therefore get freeview (dvb-t) and freesat (dvb-s) but only one guide.
@iPhonedation do you have all 8 tuners connected to your OctopusNet A8 tuner.
I seem to have an issue that by 4 tuner IP>SAT box I’ve only got the wiring for connecting 2 cables to it, which means that I get errors sometimes tuning to a channel, which I’m guessing is because it picks a tuner that I’ve not got a sat feed from
Yes, @“andrewpmoore@gmail.com”, as it is DVB-C2 I only have to put “in” one coax cable and all 8 tuners are fed automatically.
Plex detects the 8 tuners and should make use of these - but I honestly never tried more than 2 recordings and one liveTV session at the same time. My tvheadend could do recordings also at the same time.
But, the feedback I read shows that we are already 3 people that would want to able to map lineups to EPG data on a tuner device level, not just the dvr level.
iPhonedation Thanks for the clarification on your setup. Yes I used tvheadend previously but in that I can state which of the 4 tuners I’ve actually got connections to. I don’t see a way to do this with plex alone.
Yes I think being able to set up epg’s per tuner would be handy. DVBLink is quite nice for this, their way to then merge the channels from each source afterwards is quite nice.
Hi,
I am from Germany as well and I have a similar setup as iPhonedation.
I have a DVBSky S952 V3 PCI card - it has two DVB-S2 tuners connected to our dish with Astra 19,2°E for Germany - and a HD+ smartcard for the encrypted FreeTV HD channels in Germany.
I have a Sundtek DVB-C USB Stick with one DVB-C tuner, connected to a Unitymedia cable service - especially for my Sky Deutschland PayTV subscription.
And I have a substantial amount of IPTV channels included that are streamed from the satellite dish at my mothers place - mostly British channels from 28,2°E.
On TVHeadend everything is running smooth, but the EPG data situation is not very good there. And it doesn’t look nearly as beautiful as Plex Live TV (via tvhProxy) looks already today in beta state.
But no matter which provider I choose - I never get all the channels I need. I would need a combination of several German providers and at least one reliable UK provider for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4 channels.
Greets
Schlichi
Wonder is there any fix in the works for this?
I have a DVB-S (Hauppauge Nova) and a DVB-T (HDHomerun) tuner, both require their own unique channel list but currently Plex only allows 1 tuner list to be used on all tuners.
