# Plex DVR trial
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919
**Category:** General Discussions
**Created:** [November 12, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919 "2017-11-12T16:43:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@xunillinux](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xunillinux)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 4:43pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/1 "2017-11-12T16:43:09Z")
Long time user of open source DVR solutions (MythTV TVheadend Kodi). Finally found the plugin for Kodi and also OpenPHT. Front ends are either Linux based x86 or Odroid aarch64.
Would like to try the DVR functions of Plex but don’t know how well they work. Don’t want to spend money on something that falls short. Currently use Schedules Direct for XMLTV grabbers so I don’t have an issue with subscription if Plex DVR works. Many DVR solutions claim to work but fail the test.
Plex DVR
- Schedule programs
- Expire OTA media based on first in drive space. And ability to NOT expire some recordings that want to be saved
- Server side EPG details
- Client side EPG details
Input would be appreciated
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### Author:  [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/2 "2017-11-12T16:53:53Z")
There is a whole forum on this topic: [https://forums.plex.tv/categories/dvr-live-tv](https://forums.plex.tv/categories/dvr-live-tv)
Read up there and then post your outstanding questions there.
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### Author:  [@xunillinux](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xunillinux)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 4:59pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/3 "2017-11-12T16:59:08Z")
Can’t get there from here:
Oops, you don’t have access!
This area is restricted and requires special permission to access (such as being a Plex Pass subscriber or member of one of our app betas). If you believe your account is supposed to already have access visit [https://forums.plex.tv/sso](https://forums.plex.tv/sso) to re-sync your permissions.
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### Author:  [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/4 "2017-11-12T17:09:37Z")
Well, that’s not helpful! 😔 Sorry about that!
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### Author:  [@xunillinux](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xunillinux)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 5:17pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/5 "2017-11-12T17:17:36Z")
In either case I don’t want to read about how it works. I want to try it.
Don’t want to buy the car to test the ash tray 🙂
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### Author:  [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 5:22pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/6 "2017-11-12T17:22:33Z")
Sign up for a monthly subscription and cancel after one month.
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### Author:  [@xunillinux](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xunillinux)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 5:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/7 "2017-11-12T17:30:19Z")
I suppose. Sounds like a bad business plan. Maybe a bean counter or suit reads this.
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### Author:  [@9705](https://forums.plex.tv/u/9705)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 5:34pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/8 "2017-11-12T17:34:30Z")
> @darcilicious said:
> Sign up for a monthly subscription and cancel after one month.
that’s what I would say, plus the developers need to eat… so think of it as as buying them a cup of coffee.
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### Author:  [@xunillinux](https://forums.plex.tv/u/xunillinux)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/9 "2017-11-12T18:25:39Z")
[Enticement for new business matters](https://help.netflix.com/en/node/16282 "Enticement for new business matters").
Not endorsing anything just saying.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-dvr-trial/213919/10 "2020-01-08T00:07:58Z")