network tv tuner solution

Beans on toast Dave · 18 Dec 2019 at 20:04

have been running WMC for ages now but fancy something a bit different

running a plex server and thinking of a lifetime pass to enable the tuner function
would like advice of what tuner to get for this and was it any-good streaming tv through the house?

can it be as good as WMC with a dedicated Ariel and tuner?

thanks

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Dec 2019 at 08:08

it would go into the headless server which has a Nvidia gt710

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Dec 2019 at 09:09

its a usb pctv 290e tuner, i have tried before with plex and it really did not want to work properly (not officially supported)
server is w10

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Dec 2019 at 17:16

ok, does the plex frontend work as well as WMC now?

i just want to make it as simple as possible, also have an upcoming house move and this would simplify running tv throughout the house with no need to run coax all over

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Dec 2019 at 19:20

its only me in the house, so 2 tuners is enough, budget as cheap as possible, but i think its going to be £150 once i have bought the plex lifetime sub

Xeon E31265l 4 core cpu in a hp gen 8 microsever

Beans on toast Dave · 19 Dec 2019 at 20:25

Avalon said:
An HD HomeRun Connect 2T will set you back £79.99 delivered if you look in the amazingly obvious places, 4T is £119.99. You could spend less, but if you want plug and play simplicity, unless you have a Pi and fancy using your existing card or going with Docker on a win host and trying it that way, take the easy option from the usage scenario/set-up you describe.

thanks for all your help!

Beans on toast Dave · 22 Dec 2019 at 08:24

well bought the tuner and plex,

impressed with the tuner but not plex as it has no support for my samsung tvs
after a few emails got a refund from plex

can stream to the tvs via dnla but would like a nice front end with epg

any ideas?

Beans on toast Dave · 22 Dec 2019 at 16:09

Avalon said:
Why on earth would you run Plex on your Smart TV? Samsung can't even manage to keep player working on recent TV's. Buy a proper client and stop wasting your time.

what client would you recommend?, compatible with android, windows and Samsung tvs