Plex Server and capture cards to stream cable through the house

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Hi everyone, I’ve been using Plex Server for many years, but only for streaming video files from my PC to the living room and bedroom TVs.

I have Sky TV the one that streams via fiber connection and not satellite so I was thinking “since I can put the Sky thingy wherever I want why not using a multi-port HDMI to Ethernet transmitter and send 4 Cat6 cables through the house with each own receiver so I can watch TV without moving the decoder every time”

Then a friend told me he had a spare Elgato HD60S, so I started wondering if I can capture what comes out from the decoder and use Plex Server to send the live feed to the clients, saving a couple of hundreds of euros and lots of work for the cables

I searched the internet a lot but I haven’t found any useful information about this subject can you tell me if it can be done?

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No, Plex does not support streaming live videos like that.

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There is an app that you can use to create your own tv channels which can then be added to a dvr lineup but i dont think it actually allows live feeds, just creating a timeline of existing content. The only way you could do what you are trying to do would be to find a piece of third party software that can create a live stream which could be mapped into something like xteve which can then be seen by plex dvr.
If you have a legal source of IPTV for Sky channels then you can use xteve or tellytv with Plex DVR too

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