Anyone know what happens if you have multiple livetv devices that have the same channel in Plex ?
Does it randomly pick a device to use and will always use that device ?
Does it always pick the first ?
What happens if that devices is unavailable ?
Will it rotate between the 2 devices ?
Are there any smarts involved ?
Crickets… Anyone ?
No love huh ?
I got no replies to my thread either. I’m not even sure that both of my two tuners are even utilized by Plex. forums.plex.tv/discussion/comment/1626566#Comment_1626566
@plextorchango, yeah I was looking at yours as well to see if someone answered or had any ideas. The lack of responses seems to be the norm lately…
@DTrace said:
Anyone know what happens if you have multiple livetv devices that have the same channel in Plex ?
No clue what you are referring to here.
Does it randomly pick a device to use and will always use that device ?
Plex will use the first tuner device configured in your DVR.
Does it always pick the first ?
See above.
What happens if that devices is unavailable ?
Plex will fail to start a recording.
Will it rotate between the 2 devices ?
If you have scheduled recordings Plex will utilize all the available tuner devices configured in your DVR.
Are there any smarts involved ?
Not sure what you are asking here. Yes, Plex will use all devices in your DVR. I have 3 HDHR tuner devices configured in my DVR and Plex will use all 3 for scheduled recordings.
@johnm_ColaSC thanks for getting back to me.
Basically if I had 2 tuners and both tuner provided the same or some redundant channel(s), will plex complain that the channel already exist in the previous tuner ? Or will it always use the first tuner even if that tuner/channel goes down? If that tuner or channel goes down will it use the next tuner ?
I believe yes is the answer to this one it will use whatever is available at the time.
Is it smart?.. ummm yes… BUT, it is also selfish… If you tune to a channel using a different application and plex wants that channel for a recording… it fails.
Plex assumes that it will be the only application using the tuner/s and therefore fails if one is in use by lets say Kodi at the time instead of just moving to the next available tuner.
I just started using Plex. This has been the main point of failure for me. I set it up for the local college football game and connected two televisions up via FireTV sticks running Plex.
The result was I could tune in the local channel (using SiliconDust HDHomeRun Connect Quatro) on one TV, but the second only pulled up a single freeze frame.
I tried tried other devices (android Tablet and phone) but it was always the same, the first to start viewing the channel is the ONLY one that can view the channel. Other devices can watch a DIFFERENT channel just fine, but if tune to a channel that is already being viewed… all I get is a freeze frame.
