I got super excited when I saw that Plex had a DVR feature, and purchased a Plex Pass immediately; however, it’s not compatible with my network tv tuner! Are there any plans to support the Silicondust HDHR3-US model? It’s a year or so old, so I hope it’s possible!
There was an upgrade offer that expired at the end of November. Whether or not SiliconDust will offer it again or truly did stop it at the end of November remains to be seen. Contact them at support@silicondust.com and inquire as to whether or not they are (still) offering a HDHR3-US to HDHR4-2US (it will cost money naturally).
The HDHR3-US hasn’t been for sale in retail (to my knowledge, maybe New Old Stock?) for 2 1/2 years. I couldn’t find any new back then to use with MSMC (media center), but, I did find refurbished ones on Newegg and that was almost 3 years ago.
The last I read regarding the HDHR3-US support for Plex is that, there is not enough memory/hardware to it to support a firmware which will allow the integration. Just stating what I recall reading. So I opted to upgrade to the HDHR4-2US. However, keep in mind. I upgraded two units, before I knew that Plex supported only ONE (at this time anyway, no idea if supporting more than one at a time is projected). I ended up using one for the DVR feature and the other one for HDHR Viewer (v2).
Just an idea - I do not have an HDHR device. I use a OctopusNet A8 tuner, which I connect with jkabergs tvhProxy and tvheadend, so it looks like a HDHR device to Plex.
Check for tvheadend and https://github.com/jkaberg/tvhProxy, maybe this could solve it for you. A simple Raspi+linux+tvh+proxy should be enough. tvheadend supports the older HDHR devices afair.
@iPhonedation said:
Just an idea - I do not have an HDHR device. I use a OctopusNet A8 tuner, which I connect with jkabergs tvhProxy and tvheadend, so it looks like a HDHR device to Plex.Check for tvheadend and GitHub - jkaberg/tvhProxy: An small flask app to help Plex DVR connect with Tvheadend, maybe this could solve it for you. A simple Raspi+linux+tvh+proxy should be enough. tvheadend supports the older HDHR devices afair.
So basically, it tricks plex into thinking that a tuner is a compatible hdhr?
Yes 
it works very well here with my Octopus and TVH inbetween.
Bummer, since my HDHR-3 works just fine. 
And it does work with the SiliconDust TV Tuner software.
Wonder if there’s any chance of support being added later in the beta?
I also have an Octopus here (the S2 quad tuner model of the first generation).
However, I do not use tvheadend but DVBViewer instead… is there something similar to tvhproxy for DVBViewer Media Server (formerly also known as Recording Service).
The HDHR3-US should work now under Plex natively, without any special go between software. Try it again and let us know!
Satellite is definitely something on the radar we’re interested in and will be working on supporting in the future.
What port does Plex use to talk to the older HDHR devices? I was having an issue with it reporting that it found my HDHR3-US, but it wouldn’t connect when I went to setup… I disabled my firewall and now it connects.
5004 maybe? Not sure.
Internet seems split on 5001 and 65***
I just added special rules to firewalld, see below, replace with your PC’s zone and HDHR’s source IP (pending it doesn’t change)
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-rich-rule=’ rule family=“ipv4” source address=“1.2.3.4/32” port protocol=“tcp” port=“5000-65534” accept’
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-rich-rule=’ rule family=“ipv4” source address=“1.2.3.4/32” port protocol=“udp” port=“5000-65534” accept’
