Multiple epg sources, for those with multiple tuners

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You should start a new thread for assistance. This thread is for voting on the feature indicated…

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Being on the border of Canada and the United States gives me OTA channels from both countries and being able to have all channels within the same EPG would definitely be needed.

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I too have multiple HDHomeRuns (2 Extends & 1 Quatro) and watch both OTA and HDHR Prime TV programs. My primary Plex Media Server runs on my QNAP Nas (TS-1200-1700). I have one of the Extends and the Quarto setup on that server for OTA recordings using the OTA EPG.

I also have a small PC (with an i7) running Plex Medai Server that my 2nd Extend is connected to that I use to watch/record cable shows, that uses the HDHomeRun Prime TV EPG.

I have to run this configuration for guide accuracy (tried DirecTV, Cox, Prism guides) but on a few occasions my wife went to watch something but the guide was wrong. Had to move to my current configuration to please her.

I too would like the ability to assign multiple guides to a configuration.

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please for the love of god add support for multiple sources

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Yes! Much needed here also.

108

Need this feature also! Adding my vote.

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At least one epg feed per tuner gets my vote.

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Adding my vote to this feature request. Felipe

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I was working on doing this recently and thought I was doing something wrong. I couldn’t believe that plex is restricted to one epg source. Seems like work on this is rather slow or low priority. Hopefully someone listens.

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Adding my vote as well

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I dont understand why this is still not a feature, Im setting up an Emby server in another VM, I’ve been with plex since day one but it is lacking basic features that (every)other service has

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Any update on this? I recall a posting that this was being worked but not a word since.

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They don’t post timelines or ETAs for upcoming features. They rarely even announce when they’re working on something.

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This is EXACTLY what I’m doing now…I created 2 Zap accounts:

  1. Ifs for OTA channels (getting 19 in my area)
  2. The other is for Direct TV( this matched up the best with my IPTV channels)
    P.S. And I’m also running Xteve to boot!
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I use a single tuner (HDHomeRun Extend) and live smack in the middle of 3 markets (Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Salisbury. I can receive/tune channels from all 3 markets on my HomeRun but can only use 1 market in Plex. The Philly market gives me the best guide for the channels I receive, however due to Ch6 ABC channel in Philadelphia being on a weak part of the spectrum, I use one of the other markets for ABC (2.1 Baltimore or 47.1 in Salisbury). There is a 2.1 in the Philly market so I can tune the channel, but EPG data is completely wrong.

This seems like an easy request to be able to select multiple markets, aggregate the data, and choose from the drop down the correct channel. I voted for this as this is the single biggest issue I have.

There are multiple other channels that don’t have data. 6 abc is just an example.

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I use PLEX primarily for LiveTV.

I agree with you all. I have one tuner with the option of two OTA EPG’s that split the channels up even though I can receive them all.

PLEX is limiting the functionality of my OTA experience by not allowing me to watch 14 channels that I could watch if I were able to combine EPG’s or they would include one listing for the area. Seem’s pretty basic.

Lansing, Michigan
Lifetime Plex Pass Subscriber
Recently moved to EMBY with great success

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zap2xml is what you need to do. I use it to combine more than one tuner as well. I use tvheadened to aggregate the tuners then connect to that via tvhproxy so to plex its just one tuner. I use zap2xml to combine all the epg sources into one file and pass that into plex. This is the best solution i have been able to come up with to keep things as simple as possible on the plex front end perspective.

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It is a solution (I am doing that) but not practical for us NAS users - I have to dedicate a 2nd device to do it. And seems like the built in EPG is more accurate when it comes to sports. XMLTV will let me record “NFL football” but not a particular team like the built in EPG can do (or at least the last vendor’s EPG).

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Yes, for NAS it is a bit different. I am running a full server here so it is a little easier. I never noticed that you could record specific teams using the built in EPG. I was using it last last football season and just recorded NFL Football and deleted the games I didn’t want to watch.

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+1 for this feature! i have an HDHomeRun tunner and get channels from two markets.