I am fishing for any users' experiences with IPTV Plugins or any way to record IPTV video. I use Kodi as my typical playback medium. I am aware that Kodi has some plugins that can be setup to provide IPTV and that it has a rudimentary PVR functionality with those sources, but I would like those recordings to go to Unraid. I'd rather not mess with tuners (like, HDHomerun) and such, unless it is unavoidable. I would like to capture certain broadcast tv shows (not Pay Per View) in 720p, which is good enough for my purposes. I think I am looking for something like a "SickBeard" for Public IPTV streams (TvTumbler?) - not dependent on Usenet.

 

I am exploring the viability of cord cutting. Any of you have experience that you would like to share? What works, what doesn't, how much bandwidth you tend to consume on average...anything helps.

 

Thanks in advance.

Can't tvheadend capture iptv streams from things like hdhomerun, although I use DVB so have no real knowledge of it's use.  Tvheadend can then act as a backend to kodi clients.

 

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I think so, but it's kind of a mystery to me what all you need to record a stream. If you have an IP source for the stream (for instance) why do you need a HDHomeRun?  I get why you'd need it if you were hooking it to a digital antenna to record OTA sources or if you might be doing anything a bit more nefarious. Just interested in what others do and why. I have been reading a bit, but most of the tools I looked at require Torrenting and Usenet and all that - I'm not going after that level.

 

What I am after is more like - if your cable box went out, and you still had Internet, what could you get (news, etc) with Unraid and/or Kodi and available software, without spelunking in "Piratey" stuff? How could I receive it in one place (Unraid) and broadcast it to any device in my house? That sort of thing. I'm not trying to Torrent 10,000 TV episodes or 5,000 movies - no interest in that.

 

It seems to me you need a bit of software that you set up a source in it (by IP) and that would establish a "channel" and you could set up as many as you needed...then you could record that stream for later viewing. (Also, you could record several, simultaneously if the encoding needs were modest.) This is already available as plugins in some browsers...could this be adapted for Unraid?

Tvheadend supports most types of input streams. Install our docker and do some reading on how to set up iptv with tvheadend. They have a forum also.

Thanks, Saarg...will check it out.

Unfortunately, with the 6.2 upgrade I lost the ability to play with dockers until I install a cache drive. My Unassigned Devices Docker workaround no longer functions. As soon as I work around that, I'll give it a go. There is not a plugin, I take it?

Thanks, Saarg...will check it out.

Unfortunately, with the 6.2 upgrade I lost the ability to play with dockers until I install a cache drive. My Unassigned Devices Docker workaround no longer functions. As soon as I work around that, I'll give it a go. There is not a plugin, I take it?

 

Wasn't the unassigned devices problem solved in 6.2.1?

Hmmm...I didn't see that it was working...only that one person "tried it" and it worked after they restarted their dockers and ran through their templates. I'll give it a shot...couldn't hurt.

 

And I am SO GLAD I DID. 6.2.1 Indeed re-enabled my previously in service Docker on my Unassigned Devices "disc". Thanks a million for the tip. 

 

And, BTW - Great job LT! I was kind of bummed since my test dockers went away unexpectedly when I upgraded to 6.2 from 6.1.9.

 

I downloaded Tvheadend - and now I am off reading on how to setup IPTV lists...I'll check in when I am good and stuck.

Appreciate the illumination of the path - this looks promising, but I have a lot to lookup, learn and digest.