Hello Everyone,
HDHR Connect Duo, PMS Version 1.40.2.8395
I live in Australia about 60km north of Sydney and can pickup FTA TV from 3 locations. Sydney, Central Coast and Newcastle.
I therefore require the TV Guides from these three locations to be able to have a complete guide. Entering my postcode/zip only partly fills the guide.
I am able to get the XMLTV guides from the three locations but now would I combine them into one guide? Or is there a better solution?
TIA
You can add EPG data from multiple locations when using Plex’s guide. However, it can only be done during initial DVR setup.
When you’re initially configuring the DVR, after entering your zip code and selecting your first lineup and mapping the channel, select the option “Add channels from another lineup/location.”
This will allow you pick another zip and go through the process again (and then again). After configuring all locations, you can continue as normal.
Of course for this to work all the channels would need to be non-overlapping between the areas.
Thank you for your reply.
What do you mean by non-overlapping?
You can’t have the same channel in two different guides. For example, if your Sydney lineup has a channel 4, neither you Central Coast nor your Newcastle can have a channel 4. Or at least that’s how it used to be. To be honest, I haven’t used this functionality in a while so it’s possible that it changed (but I doubt it).
Well, that’s going to be an issue then as I will have overlapping channels.
I just performed a quick test here and it looks like I was mistaken. I intentionally picked two guide sources with duplicate channels. Plex allowed me to save the configuration and pulled the guide data for both. I was also able to play both channels.
So, I’d recommend you give it a shot.
(Note: I only tested with two guide sources with overlaps. I’m not sure how it would handle three.)
Edit: I just tested with again with three guide sources. Each has a channel 4.1 which I assigned to three different channels on my HDHR. It worked as well.
OK, Thank you and I will give it a shot.
EDIT: Sounds like a solution then.
EDIT2: Thought about getting the XML directly from the HDHR using a Python Script to create the XMLTV file and using that, but this would probably be better if it’s accurate.
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