Are there plans to change this and allow multiple heterogeneous tuners rather then just multiple homogeneous tuners? Perhaps this has already changed?
I recall running through a Plex DVR setup on one PMS system and my HDHome Run Dual (older white model) were detected. I didn’t think they were supported but I was able to complete the setup with them and an HDHomeRun Prime.
The setup failed when attempting to add the Dual to the DVR when the Prime was already configured but it went to completion when the Dual was setup first and the Prime was setup after.
I didn’t test the configuration but the setup worked.
Well it is easy enough to test. Configure it up and test it.
I was able to configure a Hauppauge 2250 with my prime and have been able to use all 5 tuners. One catch though is i have them both setup to tune cable channels. I didn’t try to have it search for ATSC channels.
If you can get them both configure i would expect it to work as long as you have the channel mapping correct.
I have 2 Connects, a Prime, and a Dual all configured and working in Plex. Plex Employee told me my configuration would not work since the Prime is a Cable TV Tuner, but it does since I have used both the Prime and Connects in the past for recording 6 or 7 shows at the same time. My DVR is configured as OTA and the Prime does not have a cable card and only receives local channel that are rebroadcast by cable company.
That kind of confirms my point about guide data. So are all of your tuners using ATSC or Clear qam. I think what would be interesting would be to try the prime while having a tuner use ATSC for another tuner. Since cable is likely rebroadcasting the local OAT channels you should be able to just map the OTA to the correct channel in the cable channel lineup and be fine.
And whatever else there was out there all with different signal sources per tuner type. Tuner salad allowed for a modification of up to 6x tuners of a kind. Microsoft Media Center was and still is a very polished DVR software package and I have yet to see anything else come close to it.
For what it’s worth I have an extra Hauppauge CableCard tuner but I have a spare CableCard. I’m wondering now if I can set it up as you have with Plex DVR or some other DVR software?
What if anything did you have to do in order to receive the local channels without a CableCard? Was it just automatic for the locals?
The Hauppauge HVR-2250 is a ATSC/ClearQAM tuner. It had the cable plugged directly into it. So when it did its scan it just found those ClearQAM channels. So in my case it was only 10 of the 400+ channels my prime gets. I am little suprised it wasn’t more actually. I did have to manually assign a few of the channels in the mapping config.
My problem now is plex seems to use the prime first no matter what I do. Kinda limits the HVR-2250’s ability to help. It plex would pull the tuners from the HVR-2250 first when it can tune them it could prevent contention for cable channels
Hopefully in future releases Plex will allow multiple DVR configurations each with their own EPG but a single recording schedule that can make use of either DVR based on channels configured.
If the Hauppauge will work without a cable card you possibly could. I just decided one day to try it and was surprised that it worked fine without the cable card.
I didn’t have to do anything to make the Prime work. Literally just connected a RG6 cable, plugged it in, and checked using VLC to ensure a network stream could be viewed from it. Once verified I configured in Plex.
@mavrrick The prime is using Clear QAM, the Connects and Dual are ATSC. The channels rebroadcast by cable company lineup exactly with the local channels broadcast OTA. Channel 10.1 is local NBC channel, cable company broadcast is also on 10.1. Cable company doesn’t broadcast all of the other channels broadcast OTA but all channels they do match perfectly with OTA.
Well that is nice to see plex supports both ATSC and clear qam at the same time. It also supports clear qam and cablecard at the same time. Sounds like it Is all about just making sure the channel mapping is correct for each tunable channel.
Thanks for the clarification @johnm_ColaSC I figured it would be something like that.
I can try running my Hauppauge CableCard tuner without a CableCard since it’s currently going unused and a I don’t have a spare CableCard. However, I suspect it won’t be as successful since I don’t think my cable provider has any channels in the clear.
I used to get something like ~144+ channels in the clear but shortly after the FCC allowed it, not even the local channels were in the clear.
I had to switch my HDHomeRun Dual tuners from ClearQAM to ATSC when they made the switchover. That’s why I suspect I would get nothing without the CableCard. It’s worth a shot though.
