Trying to get around this still. Absolutely necessary to have the ability to select multiple epg providers and/or providers from multiple geo-regions as has been stated before. Antenna picking up service from multiple locations
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It appears that this fixed this. Just add them as you normally would and they should all show up as duplicate channels but with the each being the respective station. So you might have two 4.1 channels but they will be different and will turn properly.
The ability to use the in-built EPG for one tuner and an XMLTV feed for another tuner is still missing, unfortunately.
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Iām surprised they havenāt addressed this for over 5-6 years is absolutely mindblowing.
Not sure why we canāt use XMLTV and the gracenote EPG on seperate tuners is insane. I shouldnāt be locked into using just one because I have one tuner configured with Plex EPG then be forced to use it on a tuner I want to use an xmltv file with.
@ChuckPa who in the Plex DVR team can we address this too? Plex DVR is even missing the standardized TV Everywhere standard from cable labs as well. Also the āclear bundles and optimize databaseā buttons donāt even seem to work on Plex DVR stuff inside Plex web.
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While services like xTeVe can make this work, albeit not in the cleanest way all the time, and with a lot of manual work, being able to natively support different guide sources for different tuners is something that should be seriously considered as a future addition.
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Yeah. In my case I wound up using xteve and mapping it all on that side and just use that. It works rather well once you iron out all the fickle things about it. I learned today that the transcoder throttling messes up playback and had to set it to 12 hours. Ah well. Seems to be a bit more stable now. Either way. It was the best way except you can only use either xml epg or plex internal epg so for ota youāre stuck trying to find something that works for you (or paying for itā¦ no thanks).
Just bumping my + vote for this. Using HDHR tuner for OTA, and premium (paid) IPTV. Canāt have both in PLEXā¦ lame. Needs added asap!
Also adding in my +1 here. Definitely need this. Ran into this recently when I tried to add some legit IPTV services on top of an HDHR tuner and it was such a headache. Tried going XMLTV altogether but had an additional mess when I found out that Plex seems to not bother to cache images locally and just forwards the image urls verbatim to the client. That doesnāt quite work if those images are LAN accessible only and you have an external client. And it seemed to cause some of my remote clients to just fail to load the Live TV section altogether.
Ultimately being able to choose separate guide sources per tuner makes the most sense here. Let me use the Plex EPG for the HDHR and supply my own XMLTV sources for the IPTV tuners.
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593 votes. Can you please make this happen?
As an extension to this, going to chime in and join the voices requesting that we be able to use XMLTV for one source, live for another - mix and match, if you will. For IPTV and self-rolled channels (Ala ErsatzTV), itās pretty much required that we be able to do that.
Currently running an entirely separate server for my channels, which is a bit overkill. Iād love to do everything within Plex.
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We need to be able to choose different EPG sources for different tuners. For some, we want to use EPG provided by Plex, while for others, we need to use external XMLTV. Additionally, weād like the option to use both Plex-provided EPG and XMLTV for the same tuner. Please allow us to mix EPG sources as needed.
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It just feels so weird that anything like this isnāt possible even after such a long time. For me the Plex provided EPG data is mostly fine, but 4 out of 16 channels I have requires external data. So to get the EPG for those 4 channels, I have to provide XMLTV for all 16 channels? Thatās not just weird, itās pretty stupid too.
All it would need is an external option in the EPG-selection window for something like āexternal xmlā or ālink to xmlā and some background magic to show the EPG info along with the other channels. Maybe another row to customize the order of the channels so that this wouldnāt mess it up.
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Does it need data that isnāt in Gracenote or just need more than one zip code region to be combined? The later is possible in Plex, just not intuitive.
Needs data that isnāt in Gracenote.
Another voteā¦ this is a little different. I have one local channel with not guide data by gracenote but I also have a schedules direct account and it is available from them but there is no way to add two lineups to get this channel guide loaded for this one channel.
Seems like thereās a decent amount of votes for this - I wish weād get a response, at least, to tell us if itāll be possible in the future or if itās going to require an entire rewrite of the EPG system or something.
Right now, Iām forced to run two Plex servers - one for my OTA, one for an ErsatzTV installation Iāve got going, simply because Plex refuses to pull from more than one EPG source. Iāve seen other people move to alternative media servers over this, and others are forced to use external services and pay for guide data elsewhere even though theyāve paid for Plex.
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Just replying to keep this thread alive. Obviously this is a very wanted feature and Plex the company could work something out on the signing of their next EPG contract to put in a provision to allow multiple EPG sources even if it requires not using their vendorās EPG source. There is no reason for not working on this feature.
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ersatztv user here myself and was looking at a network tuner for plex for local live tv but yea.. this epg limitation is killer, my work around was gonna be the samething as you are doing but i decided to skip the idea for now and stick w/ersatz. come on plex! its been a request since 2018
Another vote for this:
I have three lineups:
- Belgium DVB-T2 (local channels)
- France DVB-S2 on 5Ā°W
- UK Freesat DVB-S2 on 28.2Ā°E
Channel number 1 is : La Une HD, and TF1HD and BBC Oneā¦
Only alternative is to map each location to a different Plex Server and have one tab in the guide per country, much like āPlex Channelsā has.
Can we have the option to assign a different lineup to a different tab?
