Let’s just get this right out front.
I’m a cord cutter, I’m not interested in cable, satilite or any other subscriptions.
For awhile Plex suited my needs it allowed me to control my media and stream it to my TV’s just the way I wanted. The OTA DVR was a really nice feature… granted it was a bit flaky and not 100% reliable as to the quality of the recording you where going to get but it was liveable. And if I got a bad recording from say the local NBC station I could normally find the show I wanted from the NBC channel.
As we all know that feature is gone so that leaves me with just doing recordings. I am using a Wintv-quadhd. Plex can run two of the tuners at the same time flawlessly the other two not so much. With wintv8.5 I can record on all 4 at the same time and it never misses a beat. Their software as some limitations, mainly the file name and their web browser tv guide at titian.com. so even with the limitations of Plex not being able to record a set time slot on a channel everyday it wasn’t a deal breaker. But…
This issue with the TV Guide not up dating is becoming unbearable. Some days it list content for all 27 channels for 6 to 12 hours other days it only shows 4 or 5 channels for a few hours. I’m really getting tired of reinstalling the DVR to get it to half ass work. If I check the enhanced guide feature and it all goes to crap.
Is this issue going to be resolved soon?
If not, is there anyway to install a different TVguide?
At this point I’m just really disappointed in it all I mean come on, I supported you with the lifetime Plex Pass, how about making this a priority and getting it fixed
Don’t know if you’ve seen this post:
It gives you an XMLTV file with channels from Zap2It. You have some control over how much data you get and, at least on my Ubuntu boxes, it seems a reliable source of guide data. It should have both OTA and cable/sat listings.
No… I didn’t
Although I have dabbled with it. Without success with Plex on Windows 10. Although I did get it up and running on media portal
Perhaps I need to put on a fresh pot of coffee and find my programmer pants 
In reality, no programming required. You need to delete your existing DVR and select an XMLTV file for guide data when you recreate it. Setting up the Zap2It account is free and easy. You create your account, select your zip code and tv service (ota, etc.) The zap2xml script does all the work. You just need to schedule a task to run the script as often as needed. I only do a once a day run at 1a.m. so that the Plex scheduled task at 2a.m. updates the guide.
I’d personally rather have a working Guide through Plex DVR instead of having to do some workaround. Plex added quite a few Plex Pass members based on the claims of the Plex Live TV & DVR solution, but it’s still super buggy. I’m considering paying SiliconDust $35 per year for their guide/DVR service.
The zap2xml method does put the guide in Plex. It uses Gracenote for the data, too. It’s just a different way to get the guide data into Plex for use by the DVR. SiliconDust DVR is probably fine, but I don’t want a cloud service. I want a local OTA recording to reduce my internet data usage from my ISP and no additional monthly charge for the DVR.
AFAIK, with the Silicondust DVR option it does record to a local device such as your own computer or NAS. I think the only thing being sent over the Internet are guide updates.
I managed to get the zapit xmltv guide to work in plex on Windows 10
When you click on the path and type it in, it errors out
SURPRISE SURPRISE SURPRISE !!
Then I found a post in the forums about using “\localhost\c$\Plex\dvb-t.xml” for the path.
I dropped all the zapit stuff into a directory called plex on C:\ and named the file "dvb-t.xml "
IT WORKS!!
I’d expect this kind of thing with open source “hit the paypal button and DONATE” software but with software that’s sold as a “Premium Product” like Plex… Not So Much
Agree about Plex. This shouldn’t be a problem, at least not one that keeps happening. Still nothing from Plex support as to the cause and solution.
Agreed
Sadly it seems as though they are more interested it telling me what I want instead of listening to what I need.
I don’t want tidal nor podcast or webshows
I need a OTA DVR that works as advertised, the plugins were just a bonus.
Perhaps they have lost contact with their customer base.
Hmm kinda sounds like Microsoft
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