I've been using subzero since its release and it's a God send. I believe it is now in the plex channel store so it is as close as it gets to official.

I'll talk to the lsio team and we will look into adding unrar support

Thanks for the praise! Wait til you see 2.0  

16 minutes ago, aptalca said:

I've been using subzero since its release and it's a God send. I believe it is now in the plex channel store so it is as close as it gets to official.

I'll talk to the lsio team and we will look into adding unrar support

 

Oh yeah, I meant to bring this up but I forgot.... 

Thanks for the support guys!

Did you guys hear about new live tv feature in Plex???!!

 

For us yanks, this could be a nice thing.

 

you need to buy a USB tuner device and an antenna. And you can tune to your  local channels from anywhere.

 

https://www.plex.tv/features/live-tv-dvr/

 

I guess the hard part for us Dockers is how to connect/pass the USB tuner to the plex docker.

 

Any thoughts or ideas?

17 minutes ago, hernandito said:

Did you guys hear about new live tv feature in Plex???!!

 

For us yanks, this could be a nice thing.

 

you need to buy a USB tuner device and an antenna. And you can tune to your  local channels from anywhere.

 

https://www.plex.tv/features/live-tv-dvr/

 

I guess the hard part for us Dockers is how to connect/pass the USB tuner to the plex docker.

 

Any thoughts or ideas?

 

I use the plex DVR with the linuxserver docker.  My tuner is a HdHomeRun, it is network based so no issue configuring it with the docker

 

I haven't tried live TV yet but I'm very happy with the DVR.  

 

Plex doesn't have a real TV schedule though, some patent troll has a hold of that so you can only search and see the list of what's playing now.  Nothing in a grid view.

5 minutes ago, Gog said:

 

I use the plex DVR with the linuxserver docker.  My tuner is a HdHomeRun, it is network based so no issue configuring it with the docker

 

I haven't tried live TV yet but I'm very happy with the DVR.  

 

Plex doesn't have a real TV schedule though, some patent troll has a hold of that so you can only search and see the list of what's playing now.  Nothing in a grid view.

 

Hi Gog,

 

looks like the beauty of this NEW feature is the live tv with the program guide etc. watch the video from my link above. 

 

 

Edited June 1, 20179 yr by hernandito

1 hour ago, hernandito said:

 

Hi Gog,

 

looks like the beauty of this NEW feature is the live tv with the program guide etc. watch the video from my link above. 

 

 

The video talks about a program guide but the images only show what I have now with the DVR.  

 

Playing now, upcoming, movies...  No grid view.  I think they are playing with words a bit using the expression "program guide"

Well they made a big new announcement today...Before it was DVR only, and now they have Live TV as well.

 

Also, no need for tuner card. Just an antenna...yet I wonder if connecting a coax line from my cable provider would alloww me to watch the non-drm channels.

 

Edited June 1, 20179 yr by hernandito

8 minutes ago, hernandito said:

Also, no need for tuner card. Just an antenna.

Plugged into what?

4 minutes ago, hernandito said:

Well they made a big new announcement today...Before it was DVR only, and now they have Live TV as well.

 

Also, no need for tuner card. Just an antenna...yet I wonder if connecting a coax line from my cable provider would alloww me to watch the non-drm channels.

 

 

You either need a tuner card or a hdhomerun. It's not many tuners support as of now, but they might support others later. This is also only for free to air channels, so no encrypted channels. I have no idea if it supports cable card in the states, I'm in Europe so I don't follow that stuff very close.

1 minute ago, jonathanm said:

Plugged into what?

 

You should be able to squeeze it into the network port 

Into something like this:

 

https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-AVerTV-Volar-Hybrid-H837/dp/B006PU81QE

 

Also works with any HDHomeRun.

 

But how is the USB connect and seen by the Docker?

Edited June 1, 20179 yr by hernandito

3 minutes ago, hernandito said:

Into something like this:

 

https://www.amazon.com/AVerMedia-AVerTV-Volar-Hybrid-H837/dp/B006PU81QE

 

Also works with any HDHomeRun.

 

But how is the USB connect to the Docker.

 

The device have to be supported by Plex as far as I understand it. If they would have supported dvb, all cards working with @CHBMB's dvb build would work in Plex.

 

You might be able to pass through the USB device by the bus and the device number if no driver is installed. If you need to install a driver, then passing through the /dev/dvb device is enough.

Edited June 1, 20179 yr by saarg

Pretty poor support of USB devices and no PCIe device support as far as I can tell.

The new Plex Live TV thing lists the supported compatible devices:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/225877427-Supported-DVR-Devices-and-Antennas

 

What keeps me from buying the $50 USB Adapter is how to bridge the USB into the Docker.I know all you in Europe have it really handy... us in the US are not so lucky.

4 minutes ago, hernandito said:

The new Plex Live TV thing lists the supported compatible devices:

https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/225877427-Supported-DVR-Devices-and-Antennas

 

What keeps me from buying the $50 USB Adapter is how to bridge the USB into the Docker.I know all you in Europe have it really handy... us in the US are not so lucky.

 

I know they have a list of supported devices. 

It looks like Plex needs the driver installed, so then you need a device that is supported by @CHBMB's dvb build. Then passing it through is as simple as adding a device and specifying /dev/dvb.

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/linux.html

 

Hauppage have always been useless at Linux support.  We're way past kernel 4.4 on Unraid so not even sure those will work.  I can try at some point, but I certainly wouldn't be rushing out to buy one at the moment.

Edited June 1, 20179 yr by CHBMB

Buy a network based HdHomeRun, and you don't have to worry about pass thru, and drivers, and configuration, etc...  Not worth trying to save a few bucks to use a USB tuner with unRAID if you are buying something new anyways.

1 minute ago, jevans04 said:

Buy a network based HdHomeRun, and you don't have to worry about pass thru, and drivers, and configuration, etc...  Not worth trying to save a few bucks to use a USB tuner with unRAID if you are buying something new anyways.

Yeah, that's great if you're Stateside, not so good if you're in Europe or the Antipodes.

But wouldn't all these drivers be included with the latest version of Plex which are compatible?

 

From the Hauppauge site:

 

13 minutes ago, saarg said:

It looks like Plex needs the driver installed, so then you need a device that is supported by @CHBMB's dvb build. Then passing it through is as simple as adding a device and specifying /dev/dvb.

 

How does one pass a USB device to a Docker with the /dev/dvb? Is that unique only to @CHBMB docker?

 

 

Just now, hernandito said:

 

But wouldn't all these drivers be included with the latest version of Plex which are compatible?

 

Drivers have to be installed in the OS, not in the application.

 

1 minute ago, hernandito said:

How does one pass a USB device to a Docker with the /dev/dvb? Is that unique only to @CHBMB docker?

It's not a docker I produce, it's special Unraid builds with DVB drivers.  So they're installed in the OS.  You then passthrough the devices to the docker container.

Thank you Mr. N.... It looks like I am going to throw in the towel.... an HDHomeRun is too much $$ for just watching over-the-air channels IMHO.

 

 

39 minutes ago, CHBMB said:

Yeah, that's great if you're Stateside, not so good if you're in Europe or the Antipodes.

 

Im based in Europe (UK) and there is a HDHomerun device capable of Freeview HD channels. 

 

I have to admit I'm not actually using it anymore as I'm addicted to unsupported protected channels on sky! ?

Yeah but only dual tuner DVB-T or quad DVB-C.....