Plex DVR not seeing Wintv-dualHD USB tuner (UnRaid)

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I am running Plex 1.7.3.3937 on an UnRaid (6.3.5) docker (binhex-plexpass) and just bought the Wintv-dualHD usb tuner for it. I cannot get Plex to see the tuner no matter what I try. I know the tuner is working since I tested in on a Windows 10 machine. I am guessing it is a simple command but I cannot find it anywhere.

Thanks for the help!

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this is why forum support sucks. Same issue. Youve been waiting 2 days with no response

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Do you have the driver for your usb tuner Wintv-dualHD in unRAID and you can see device? Do you use the DVB Plugin in unRAID? Here you can add DVB drivers to unRAID.

What gives you a lspci on your unRAID system?

This is more a unRAID issue which should be discussed in the Limetech forum:

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@Markbeach said:
this is why forum support sucks. Same issue. Youve been waiting 2 days with no response

User supported forums. People who freely give their time to help others.

You want immediate answers, go hire someone!

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@ja_sen said:
I am running Plex 1.7.3.3937 on an UnRaid (6.3.5) docker (binhex-plexpass) and just bought the Wintv-dualHD usb tuner for it. I cannot get Plex to see the tuner no matter what I try. I know the tuner is working since I tested in on a Windows 10 machine. I am guessing it is a simple command but I cannot find it anywhere.

As mentioned by others, please make sure the device is working under your OS first. Plex cannot see the device if your OS doesn’t see it.

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I’m not on an UnRAID container, but I am using docker (mandreko/pms-docker) and I have the same tuner. Every time the container gets restarted (reboot, manual restart, etc), I have to do

    docker exec -it plex /bin/bash
    chown -R root:video /dev/dvb

After that, I’m able to add my tuner. But, I’m not even able to restart the container again without losing the tuner. I continually have to delete & re-add my tuner (which sucks). But, while the container is up, it does record, and using the container above, it will successfully remove most commercials.

ed: I should add… I think the problem is that plex is running (in my case, anyway) as a user “plex” which belongs to the video group, but my host video group has a different group id (91) than the container (44). The chown command above will give the container’s video group access to the tuner. In the case of the WinTV-DualHD, that tuner lives under /dev/dvb.

Hope that helps.