Share Prime - SageTV + Emby or Plex

[KarylFStein]

I'm looking for a way to give my daughter DVR capabilities while she's away at school. Since she's an Apple person, (don't know how that happened), I figure I'd get her an Apple TV and have her connect to my Emby or Plex instances. Am I right in thinking that I can point Emby or Plex to my Prime and have it play nicely with SageTV + OpenDCT, (i.e. they won't both try to use the same tuner)?

[wayner]

Do you want to watch Recorded TV files or live TV? As long as everything is recorded in SageTV then you should have to worry about tuner contention.

Also, there also may not be much point in getting her an AppleTV - you can get FireTV or Rokus that will provide the same functionality for much cheaper except for the lack of Airplay.

Another easy way top remotely get content from SageTV is AirVideoHD. I use this all the time, the main downside is that the UI isn't pretty since you are just selecting files from a file list. But it works well remotely assuming that you have decent upload speed (my upload speed is 20Mbps) and you forward the port.

[KarylFStein]

Originally Posted by wayner

Do you want to watch Recorded TV files or live TV? As long as everything is recorded in SageTV then you should have to worry about tuner contention.

Also, there also may not be much point in getting her an AppleTV - you can get FireTV or Rokus that will provide the same functionality for much cheaper except for the lack of Airplay.

Another easy way top remotely get content from SageTV is AirVideoHD. I use this all the time, the main downside is that the UI isn't pretty since you are just selecting files from a file list. But it works well remotely assuming that you have decent upload speed (my upload speed is 20Mbps) and you forward the port.

I want to make this pretty seamless and SageTV just doesn't fit the bill. While I rely on the features SageTV has for my own house, I just want an app that she and her roommate or people over can easily connect with and use.

I think I've settled on Emby for the back-end if just for the fact that I can also connect a currently unused HDHR Quatro (bought on a Black Friday sale when I thought SD Premium TV would be my future direction--also came with a free Fire TV stick that my daughter now has) to my antenna and have a separate lineup for it without jumping through hoops like you have to do with Plex. It's pretty slick in that I can mark channels on the Prime as Favorites and only import those into Emby. So I disregard everything under channel 1000 and also any channel that the Quatro can capture.

While automatic commercial skip is important to me I think she's fine with manual skipping. And while I like to start sports a bit in and commercial skip, (or if I'm on the road have SRE make sure the whole game is captured), she prefers to watch sports live.

Anyway, I want to give a separate DVR experience to her but use my equipment for now. We watch some of the same shows and I wouldn't want to delete something she hasn't watched yet or vice versa. When you're in the same house that is easier to resolve .

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by KarylFStein

I'm looking for a way to give my daughter DVR capabilities while she's away at school. Since she's an Apple person, (don't know how that happened), I figure I'd get her an Apple TV and have her connect to my Emby or Plex instances. Am I right in thinking that I can point Emby or Plex to my Prime and have it play nicely with SageTV + OpenDCT, (i.e. they won't both try to use the same tuner)?

Yes you can do that with EMBY .... but Plex does not play nice with Sharing tuners assumes all tuners are allocated to it.


Make sure to enable pooling in OpenDCT. Then you can use both Emby and SageTV with the HdHomerun tuners... Make Sure all OTA tuners are part of the same Pool.

EX.
pool.enabled=true
sagetv.device.-1043852702.encoder_pool=atsc
sagetv.device.-1043987243.encoder_pool=atsc

[KarylFStein]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Yes you can do that with EMBY .... but Plex does not play nice with Sharing tuners assumes all tuners are allocated to it.


Make sure to enable pooling in OpenDCT. Then you can use both Emby and SageTV with the HdHomerun tuners... Make Sure all OTA tuners are part of the same Pool.

EX.
pool.enabled=true
sagetv.device.-1043852702.encoder_pool=atsc
sagetv.device.-1043987243.encoder_pool=atsc

Great, thanks. Now if only that 6 tuner Prime would hurry up and get released!

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by KarylFStein

Great, thanks. Now if only that 6 tuner Prime would hurry up and get released!

There is a thread on the Silicondust forum that says the 6 tuner prime will not have a gigabit Ethernet port, only fast Ethernet. So there is some question as to whether it will be able to handle six simultaneous recordings or not. I may just stick with my two existing primes after all, with the added benefit of redundancy in case of hardware failure. The downside is I’m stuck paying rental fees for two cablecards instead of one.

[wayner]

Isn't the bitrate of an MPEG-2 transport stream 19Mbps? Then how do you fit six signals into 100Mbps? When I went to school 6x19 was 114

[MattHelm]

That's the max rate. If you are using it for cable, you be lucky to see 8Mbps.