I use a HomeRun 4 channel ATSC3 tuner and I can steam Over The Air, (OTA) channels all day with no issues. But every night when the late night news comes on, and it does not matter what local news station I watch, the feed starts to buffer. I can only watch at the very lowest resolution or it continues to buffer. The lowest resolution is so unusable to watch as it is blurry, etc, so I can only use it to listen to the audio basically. Everything else streams perfectly fine including any other live OTA shows, or Plex channels. I have adjusted router settings, checked log files to see if there are backup operations or any other maintenance tasks going on at exactly that time of day, but there is nothing going on to take away server resources. I am using the latest TrueNas release and I am running the latest Plex server. Any ideas would be a great help. I am not a big A/V guy, so keeping the discussion on the simpler side will help.
At the same time the station starts buffering, try the HD Homerun app and see if it’s doing the same thing. Check your signal strength before and during.
I’ve had this before and looked it up and there are things like atmospheric pressure that can really effect the signal of ota channels. One channel I’ll have a 90% signal on at 11am will have 55% signal at 10pm.
Edit: here is a video https://youtu.be/MYNNs_1LLjU?si=KcsbdSpyOPDJkEFI
Well, thanks, everything streams perfect when using the HomeRun App. Now I just need to figure out why it slows when streaming through my Plex server. My OTA TV signals are strong, so that is not the issue, but it does stream perfectly using the HomeRun App.
In that case, you probably want to post server logs and someone will be able to come along and interpret them.
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