Recommendation: Set top box sat receiver with CI

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I am planning on using live tv on my plex server, which is running on a standalone headless linux machine. I live in austria, which means that HDhomerun is not available here. The programs I want to receive are encrypted with irdeto using CI-modules.

In the past (prior to plex) I have successfully used a tbs 6928 pci-e tuner. But that thing blew up. And it seems to be getting harder and harder to buy such PCIe tv cards (aliexpress used to have a few, but they’re now all basically “sold out”).

But CI (and irdeto) capable set top box receivers with LAN are easily available. I am now looking for some recommendations on such hardware that works well with plex and CI/irdeto on linux. Any ideas?

Thanks!

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Have a look at Xteve software solution. Should work fine with Plex and most SAT receivers. I’m not aware of hardware solution here in Europe directly supported by PLex.

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The short of it is that Plex live tv / dvr does not support encrypted channels https://support.plex.tv/articles/226463767-frequently-asked-questions-dvr-live-tv/#toc-9

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Does that also hold for solutions like xTeVe? The encrypting should be done in the receiver, and the stream then just passed on in an IPTV form, or am I mistaken?

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Decryption is handled by the SAT receiver, xTeVe acts as an M3U Proxy for Plex DVR with some added functions to ease maintenance of the .m3u and XMLTV files.