LOCAST.org NO antenna NO DVR box

We have locast.org here in Houston for all the local stations. How/can I use this app in PLEX and record it to my own HD or perhaps even a cloud?

Don’t want to purchase an antenna and DVR box.

Plex has no support for locast, as far as I know, but there have been a few discussions. You might find some info in them.
https://forums.plex.tv/search?q=locast

Did you manage to get Plex to work with locast? I have found a few posts about locast2Plex script but have has no luck getting it to work.

No. I gave up on PLEX all together. I switched back to XFinity and paying big $$$ just to get back to simple and easy to use. SAD, but PLEX, HULU and many others just are not stepping up to get our business.

The locast2plex script works great. I have been using it for a few weeks after moving to a house that didn’t get good enough OTA antenna reception to use my hardware tuner. Some thoughts on setting it up:

I have locust2plex running on my Mac, it works great. Just wish I could figure out how to make it run on startup.

Going to try and get this setup when I get home.

I just installed locast2plex via container on my Qnap which is also running my Plex server below log looks like it is working but when I try to connect to it from Plex on DVR Setup I get “There was a problem adding the device: 10.0.10.4:6077” 10.0.10.4 is the IP address for the Qnap.
Any thoughts on how to troubleshoot?

User location obtained as 47.7438/-122.6265
Getting user’s media market (DMA)…
DMA found as 819
Getting list of stations based on DMA…
Loading FCC Stations list…
Starting device server on 0.0.0.0:6077
Starting SSDP server…

I used this link as a guide to get the script running on login. Can’t get it to work in Plex though

http://sickbeard.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=87&start=60#p16053

For those wanting to set up Locast2Plex on a Qnap, I finally got mine running and am able to DVR my local channels. See my posts at Error during login: · Issue #85 · tgorgdotcom/locast2plex · GitHub. I set up a docker in Qnap Container Station by login via SSH and running:

docker run \

-v /share/CACHEDEV1_DATA/yourdirectory/config.ini:/app/config/config.ini \

tgorg/locast2plex

where yourdirectory is the folder where you have the locast2plex config.ini. Here is the basics for that file below. The script above references the .ini file to build the container on Qnap.

[main]
locast_username=username@example.com
locast_password=1234567
plex_accessible_ip=127.0.0.1

I have 127.0.0.1 specified since my Plex is running on the same box. If not use the network ip for the server that is running plex.

I then used 127.0.0.1:6700 in my Plex DVR setup. Plex would not connect until I went back to the Container Station on Qnap and added the 6700 port for the docker per screen shot attached.

I hope this helps anyone attempting to run this for their Plex installation!

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