I have two HDHomeRun devices (each with 2 tuners inside). They are connected to two different antennas. Device A receives all stations, but one channel is not especially good. Unfortunately it is the one my wife likes to watch. So I set up device B connected to another antenna to receive that one station. I added both devices to Plex and unchecked the one poor station on both tuners in device A and checked only the one station in both tuners in device B. However, Plex keeps going back to device A to record the bad station. I have tried removing the devices, scanning, unplugging the devices and prayer. No joy! Can anyone suggest how i can fix this problem. Thanks. Harvey
Hi, I ran into the same issue, I had 2 different channels each of which would only come in clearly if I moved my antenna to a certain direction, I got a second HDHomerun to try just that, but plex is not compatible using 2 different devices, it always uses the first in the list to record from.
My solution was to get a better antenna, I purchased a omni directional antenna because the signals were coming from a few degrees off of each other, once I installed the new antenna outside and facing the correct direction, I did a scan from my original HDHomerun 2 tuner box and now get all channels, after a few fine tuning moves of the antenna, I get no OTA signal issues.
You can still add the second unit in, and when a third channel is required it will use the second tuner box, so giving you 4 channels to view from.
I’m no expert on this issue. I only have one hdhomerun extend tuner so please be nice cuz I’m just throwing ideas into the wind.
I would try uninstalling both tuners and install tuner B with antenna B first. Then install tuner A with antenna A second.
If that one channel is the only problem channel then it should default record to tuner B instead of tuner A like it currently does.
(I considered getting a second tuner because my current tuner can only record 2 channels at a time. So please ignore this option if you have 2 tuners for that reason.)
To understand your issue better I tried to research a little and I found a few articles with methods of how to put 2 antennas together to increase reception.
Hope you figure out the issue and it doesn’t just fix itself. (I hate that)
There was a previous thread discussing this. It was titles "Support for multiple tuners with different channels… I tried it and it does limit the channels shown for each antenna, but I’m recording a TV marathon, so can’t restart to see if everything works. (Support for multiple tuners with different channels?)
That issue is a little different. I want all channels enabled on both tuners on one HDHomerun Connect Duo–and be able to watch any channel on either Roku3 simultaneously. So far, no luck. I assumed the HDHomerun would stream each tuner’s content to Plex on a different IP address or different port-- but I cannot find any such setting or configuration on Plex.
That should be no problem. any channel on a HDHomerun that is available, is available to either tuner… I do not live stream, but I do record different shows from the two tuners on the Connect Duo quite frequently… you should see both tuners and their status using the HDHomerun web service, and also see the number of tuners and how many are in use from LiveTV & Dvr settings within plex.
There is nothing in plex to set up to access multiple tuners. You just try to access the channel and if there is a tuner available that has that channel, it will tune to it.
There is a HDHomerun signal meter app that lets you tune to any available channel on any of your tuners directly, and monitor signal quality and strength, and data transfer (same info as web tool, but all tuners in one place on your phone). You can use that so you can check things on the tuner side
OK. I went back to the HDHomerun app and updated the firmware. This appears to have fixed it-- at least it is the only thing that changed (?). All kinds of weird Plex things have occurred on my setup over the last 2 weeks…so who knows.
