Adding dizqueTV as a DVR in Plex (original) (raw)
To clarify some confusion. Plex Live TV is not necessary to use dizqueTV. There are many clients that can play dizqueTV's streams. So if you don't have a Plex pass, do consider the alternatives.
If you do have a Plex Pass, there are some good reasons to setup dizqueTV in Plex Live TV:
- You can play dizqueTV's channel in any Plex client connected to your account. And Plex supports quite a few devices.
- You can share the channels with other people in your plex home. Unfortunately, it is not possible to share with people outside your plex home.
- It has a cute TV guide UI.
That said, there are a couple of disadvantages:
- Plex might want to transcode the stream in order to help it play in its other clients. That increases the number of potential transcodes to 3...
- Since Plex thinks dizqueTV is a HDHR, it continuously records the stream as if it was a DVR session.
- If you already have a HDHR setup in Plex, it is not easy to be able to run dizqueTV alongside your other channels. You'd have to use a workaround like xTeVe.
Setup
Add the dizqueTV spoofed HDHomerun tuner to Plex via Plex Settings.
If the tuner isn't automatically listed, manually enter the network address of dizquetv. Example:
When prompted for a Postal/Zip code, click the "Have an XMLTV guide on your server? Click here to use that instead." link.
Enter the location of the .dizquetv/xmltv.xml file. Example (Windows):
You can also use the web UI url. .e.g:
http://192.168.0.10:8000/api/xmltv.xml
Where 192.168.0.10 is dizqueTV's IP and 8000. This is a helpful way to share the xmltv when using docker or when Plex and dizquetv are running on different machines.