I usually search better and posted this question this morning, then found this topic. Yes - please integrate with Schedules Direct. I have a subscription also and would like to have that data for my guide in Plex.
Would love this feature! +1
+1, Just bought an external antenna and HDHR Quatro to go alongside original HDHR Prime. Sighā¦
+1 this feature is sorely needed!
I am at my vote limit, but here is my +1 as I have the same problem with the SiliconDust Premium TV service and really need to map guide data from multiple lineups.
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I have the same problem with multiple OTA Quatro devices (one antenna adjusted for Chicago and another towards Janesville Wisconsin currently using two PCās) when I tried adding SiliconDust Premium TV service I cannot map the cable lineups nor can I merge multiple lineups into a single Plex installation.
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Voting for this as well. Either this or just have native support for the HDHomerun Premium TV Lineup which is a mix of timezones.
I vote for this just using a single tuner. I just setup hdhomerun with OTA and their premiumtv subscription. Since I am on the east coast their premium tv subscription is a mix of eastern and pacific times. I could pick a west coast zip code to line up the times but then my local OTA channels would not be in the list. There needs to be an east/west hdhomerun guide and also allow me to pick my local OTA channels.
I could see how picking multiple OTA guides could be useful as well. I live in one city but I am on the far side of town and actually pickup one of the local stations from a neighboring city with better signal.
Or allow integration with schedules direct somehow if we do have complicated lineups. I just set this up so not sure how I am going to get it working with schedules direct either.
Alright! Keep voting folks, weāve gotten the votes to what looks like 22nd in popularity for feature requests, keep em coming, and letās hope plex helps us that much more by meeting our request for multiple epgās!
Iād also like to vote for the ability to pull information from multiple guides. I have four channels that are available in one guide but none of the others,
Putting a vote here as well, this is definitely needed.
This would be useful for me as well as I live in an area that gets one set of OTA channels, but, also generally have access to some channels way out of my area. There is no one guide that will get multiple OTA areas. So, I get Sherman Denison area local channels, but I also get Dallas TX channels.
Hi guys,
Why could we not choose from more than just one EPG Provider? All issues would be gone for everybody!
Not all Providers in Gracenote are complete, which means you nearly never can use all channels for recording or LiveTV. This is just sad as the tuner would have the channel but due to EPG from Plex you cannot use it. And realy the reporting brings not too much and is a pain in the assā¦
Why not make the ability to pick about 3 Providers which would have all the channels we want for recording and LiveTV. On a next step after picking the providers we need, we could setup the channels according to the EPG from these 3 Providers. The auto matching would be disabled if you choose more than 1 Provider. The Data from these 3 Providers come anyway from Gracenote, its just more data but still just for one user(premium user). Should also not be a problem about licensing.
Like this everybody could use (mostly) all of the channels available from the tuners. Also People who are using mixed cable and satellite would be happy about that.
There are many ways to implement thatā¦its not far away from what it is already. Now we just choose from one Provider and Plex is only downloading content from the channels you selected from the Provider. Later with my suggestion Plex would download from 3 EPG Providers but also only the channels you selected before in the setup. Everybody would be happy and also not need to report everything to Gracenote.
My suggestion makes the TO suggestion unnecessary, because also his problem would be solved that way and Plex dont need to implement more like a sub option or anythingā¦it can just be nearly the same as it is now.
Example: If i add now a second tuner/deviceā¦i can setup the same epg from device 1ā¦becaus it is only the same list available. With my suggestion that would be the same but you decided already in the first step, which Providers you need, therefore you can choose from this list also for your second device and so on. Everything you need would be in the list already as you picked your providers already.
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Probably because the Guide is provided by Gracenote. Depending on their agreement Plex would have to pay more if they allowed multiple guides per user.
Iām all for this idea. I have both IPTV and DVB-C and multiple guides would be nice.
You wouldnāt want to necessarily just mash all epgās into one, because some channels use the same numbers for the same or different channels (50 Ota cw, 50 cable bet)ā¦
If you wish to mash, multiple epgās into one, I have heard of others on here doing so, but, every time, I hear them say theyāre self provided epg doesnāt work as well as the plex supplied one. Where the problems are, I wouldnāt know. Perhaps one day, plex will provide a āprovide your own epg tutorialā with all the formatting thatās needed for a smooth experience by these advanced users.
Personally, Iām not that good, and I would like to make it nice and relatively simple, so someone can get the benefits just by poking around the gui. I have no opinion on whether this should require the āadvanced optionsā in the gui. Besides, looking at the gui for the dvr since launch, it has always looked like it was just a update away from from simple multiple epgās, why else box up the epg? Unless you have hopes of being able to add boxes with more epgāsā¦
I also vote for being able to use multiple listings to populate the program grid. I have my OTA channels and the HD Home Run premium using Eastern, National and Pacific times fo the programs. Also, not all of my OTA channels are available from my local cable providers listings so I either have to abandon good channels or have no info for them.
Please add this feature so we tune all sources from a single PMS. I currently have two servers deployed. One for live local cable and a second for OTA. It sucks.
The latest Plex Version 1.13.7.5369 still doesnāt handle Premium TV add-on and the generally available work around mapping via a near by cable doesnāt very well as the East coast vs west coast premium TV channels do not map to guide data in central time zone very well. Not sure if this is a Silicondust only problem because of their mixed bag or due to bad assumptions that the entire guide data source will be in the same timezone, so effectively the guide is unusable for HDHOMERUN Premium TV.
Using NPVR and three independent zap2it logins (east cable, west cable, central local OTA) some python to fix the dates and then map channel by channel to the respective guides. But then Live TV works poorly and I have tuuner locking problems between the programs.
Please continue the work on guides as I have not been able to side load a custom XMLTV guide file into Plex, Thank You!!
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yes, add Greek as well to the EPG
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This is a sorely needed featureā¦as someone thatās located midway between two cities in the mideast I can pick up OTA from both but can only select one for guide data which sucks as weād like a mix of both. A previous reply indicated overlap issuesā¦fine, give the user the choice on conflicts to choose one or the other, shouldnāt be an issue since you already have the drop box to change when enabling the channel.
