I submitted the following beginning late last year and never received an answer since then. Now that Plex has grid type scheduling for recording I am more interested in using it for recording but it STILL has an issue with the available channels that has never been fixed and for which I have never received an adequate response and my original post was more than 6 months ago.
The following is my original post: which I edited slightly for clarity:
I am waiting for any input on this issue that might resolve it.
To review, Plex fails to recognize, or rather make active some TV channels from all the available TV channels on HDHomeRun tuner. The channels that are missing work on other software and are listed in the Plex channel list but they cannot be made active in Plex. One additional piece of information about the problem… The problem channels are not in the channel list drop down in’ Manage Channels’ option though they do appear as channels available in the available channels list from the tuner.
On this image you will note the channels are listed but not checked (14-1 through 14-4 are checked only for demonstration, I cannot select those channels on the channel drop down because they are not there as can be seen in image after this one.)
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Now if you go to the channel selection dropdown the channels that are unchecked are missing from the dropdown
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Missing channels can be checked with the idea of making them useable channels, but the correct channel cannot be selected and saved for it as it is not on the available channel list.
In my case it makes using theTV recording functionality close to useless as only 22 of 44 channels are available The channels ARE available from the tuner, it is just that Plex does not recognize them. Playing around with zip code entry may make them available but it then makes others unavailable.
One way that another program, EyeTV deals with this issue is to allow for entering multiple zip codes (up to two) for cover this kind of issue.
Any input from the Plex folks on this issue would be appreciated.
Again, anybody from Plex reading this? I am an early, paying supporter and I guess I feel like I deserve an answer!
