Server Version#: 1.18.5.2309
Player Version#: 0.1.6
This is my 2nd day trying Plex as an Over-the-Air guide-based TV player and DVR. I bought a 1-month Plex Pass to see how well it works.
My primary player is an x86 PC running Linux Mint 64-bit. It appears my best option is to run the Plex Kodi add-on? I cannot figure out where to enable Live TV playback for this add-on. What am I missing?
On the media server web interface, I can see the DVR guide and watch live channels from there OK, so I know it is enabled and works.
Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Secondary question… Is there no direct support contact to Plex? I have to use this forum?
Thank you for the link, but it only provides information about how to setup the server side. That is already working fine for me. I can play over-the-air channels in a web browser on the server machine successfully.
It’s the Kodi player I cannot figure out how to play or interact with over-the-air Live TV / DVR channels.
edit After Googling some more, I see this option for Plex player on Linux:
I will give this a shot instead of the Kodi player, and see if it works better.
Yay I ditched Kodi years ago. I’m not sure how up to date that link is I’m just following up on your post directly from my email on someone else’s phone.
If you are looki g at ditching Kodi and building a standalone player:
You can download the nightly builds from. Oh crap I forgot the thread link it’s in the raspberry pi Linux Plex Media Player forums. If you are looking to making a standalone player like my NUC download the latest “generic build” it will say generic x86/64 and the use a USB bootable creation tool like Rufus to make a bootable USB still and it will install the player as a service in a super stripped down Linux most importantly it’s got a new enough kernel to be compatible with most every form of PC type hardware. I’ve got it on old Chromeboxe’s even! You can install it on any of the Intel hardware Android media boxes like atom’s and celerons. There’s obviously the Android app, I think the pi builds should work on the boxes using arm based boxes like Mediatek and the like.
I’m just stating all this for anyone else that may look at this.
The player is universal now so my Roku experience is about verbatim what my NUC experience is. The NUC is able to decode all the video formats on board for 1080p and can on board transcode 4K to a 1080p display (kinda pushing it with my i3) or passthrough at 30 & 24 fps files directly to the display if you have 4k and display mode switching enabled. The 4K stuff hardware requirements for standalone playback etc. is a completely other topic. I already need to clarify my statements vin regards to that subject… Since the Nucs has built-in IR receivers you can actually control them using Windows Media player command sets. They are not built into the player, but there is or at least was in the builds a few years ago a sample file in the accessable folders when you ssh into the player. It’s nice to actually have real transport commands. Like ff/rw and chapter skip forward or back, etc. I upgraded my system earlier this year, but haven’t had the time to install my command structure yet. Enough of the regular buttons work out of the box.
The compiled Linux packages for Plex Media Player from Knapsu ( https://knapsu.eu/plex/ ) have Live TV / DVR playback support on my Linux Mint machine. However, the TV guide is not accessible. If I want to see what’s playing over-the-air currently, I get a really long list of titles like the TV or Movie Library. I really don’t like it.
Why is the traditionally-formatted TV guide available on the server machine only? What a let down. I may give up on OTA video watching all together.
freakshow999, Perhaps I will try a Raspberry Pi 4 player in the future if the TV guide gets fixed.
IR receivers are nice, but I prefer HDMI-CEC support. I built a fanless NUC media player in the past and used one of these Pulse-Eight adapters.
