Live TV Guide using multiple tuners

[JimBirmingham]

Server Version#: 1.13.8.5395
Player Version#:3.6.71

Trying to setup Live DVR to record from two tuners. One tuner is Xteve and the other is an HDHomeRun Quatro. I plan to use Xteve for the national channels and the HDHomeRun for local channels. If I start with Xteve and a custom XMLTV guide I am no longer given the option to use the Over The Air guide when I setup the HDHomeRun tuner. The reverse is also true. If I setup the HDHomeRun tuner first I lose the ability to specify an XMLTV guide for the Xteve tuner. How do I configure Plex to use the XMLTV guide for Xteve and the Over the Air guide for the HDHomeRun tuner?

[weidnerj]

You can’t. You can use either one guide for all your tuners or use XMLTV which you can have multiple EPG sources (and multiple tuners).

You could put in your vote for:

Multiple epg sources, for those with multiple tuners

I request, that we be able to set epg by box, and hopefully, a sub option to set epg by tuner. That way, I can have the 3 prime tuners, going to cable, a dual tuner going to the antenna for ota, and the second tuner of the dual tuner, could be set to cable or a second antenna for ota from a different city, should I choose to… I have 2 hdhomerun boxes, a prime, and a early dual tuner (and my Thanks for adding the older hdhomerun boxes to the dvr tuner capability list). I setup originally for t…

[bigtrucker26]

Unfortunately, until plex gives us multiple epg’s, please vote for the feature request linked in a prior message to encourage plex to do it, you can’t have multiple epg’s.
I have heard of people making their own epg, so, if you combine the epg’s into one, then feed that to plex, you can then set the tuner box in plex to only use the relevant channels. However, this is a pain in the backside approach, and everyone I’ve seen supply their own epg, has had glitches, so far as I know, only the plex supplied epg is properly smooth.

[darcilicious]

@bigtrucker26

only the plex supplied epg is properly smooth.

If only that were the case! (see all the posts about HD shows not being recorded…)

[JimBirmingham]

Done. This is important feature. Fortunately I have multiple Plex servers so I am able to basically work around this. However it is annoying that I have to do this.

[JimBirmingham]

I was thinking about creating my own epg. I may investigate that route assuming I can find a place to download the epg for my local stations.

[weidnerj]

Check out:

Multiple epg sources, for those with multiple tuners

Have you looked at zap2xml I pulls info from https://tvlistings.zap2it.com, plus with the -J switch you can merge it with another xmltv file. so basically you can create 2 accounts with zap2it and then make a script with zap2xml to download the first channel lineup, then run the next line with the -J option and download the 2nd channel lineup and merge the two. I’m currently using this setup because there were a few channels missing the lineup for my postal code, so i used a different location …

I have been doing this, getting Milwaukee and Madison channels and using the -J to combine them. It works but would rather Plex do this for me. I am running on a Synology NAS and have to use a PC to run the script.

My batch file:

cd C:\XMLTV
#rmdir /S /Q milwaukee
#rmdir /S /Q madison
#TVguide -z switch enabled
zap2xml -z -I -d 14 -u Userid@gmail.com -p mypassword -c milwaukee -o milwaukee.xml
zap2xml -z -I -d 14 -u Userid@gmail.com -p mypassword -c madison -J milwaukee.xml
#Zapit guide no -z switch
#zap2xml -I -d 14 -u Userid@gmail.com -p mypassword -c milwaukee -o milwaukee.xml
#zap2xml -I -d 14 -u Userid@gmail.com -p mypassword -c madison -J milwaukee.xml
del milwaukee.xml
move /Y xmltv.xml Z:\Plex\xmltv.xml

/volume1/Files/Plex/xmltv.xml

[weidnerj]

I did the same thing, but inconvenient to have to switch servers.

[JimBirmingham]

Thanks for the suggestion. This is basically what I ended up doing. It works fine but would expect be Plex to be able to handle this situation out of the box. I have to assume many people are going to end up in this exact scenario.

[weidnerj]

I honestly don’t know if Plex really looks at the number of future feature requests when doing their development, so don’t know if this will ever be added (just like with the DVR functionality, only the administrator) that like you said should common sense be included. I found that link and did it, only because I didn’t want my family to have to switch back and forth between two servers (and to have to run two servers when I have Plex running on a NAS). But all we can do it keep voting and others keep voting so it has visibility

[jrbilodeau]

Not sure if the Synology NAS has an addon/plugin for perl, but if so it’s possible to set it up to run right from your NAS. I have a QNAP NAS and had set up a cron job to run the script on a nightly basis and it worked quite well.

I’ve since moved my plex install to an old laptop with ubuntu, since it was more powerfull than my NAS