You can also just run a docker that emulates hd home run with an iptv subscription. $30-40 a year on z2u and you get basically every channel in the world
It’s really only necessary if you want fairly reliable access to sports, local news channels, and/or want to see live tv actually live though. And if you want to use Jellyfin rather than a proper iptv client like tivimate or uhf you’ll need something that can customize the playlist to skip 95% of the channels. Iptv usually comes with literal thousands of channels. iptv applications are fine with but live tv in Jellyfin is an afterthought so once you get past 1-200 channels or so it can really make shit drag to a crawl. Tbf this makes navigation of the guide easier, you don’t have 10,000 foreign language channels you’ll never watch to scroll through, but if you’re watching for sports it can be a pain bc a lot of providers add and delete channels for specific game streams so you might have to constantly edit the playlist to add game channels and prune dead streams. Though I think there are some projects like teamarr that try to mitigate this
ha, welcome to 2001. is mythtv still a thing? its been so long.
Man I haven’t thought about mythtv for at least 15 years, the last time I paid for cable. Ran off 2 expensive ass cablecard tuners that I spent a solid week tweaking to get it to work right lmao
I’ve carried my TV tuner from MythTV to Plex to Jellyfin, and I must say MythTV was the most stable by far. The latter two will throw a random error half the time, and the other half it breaks within 5 minutes.
at one point i had 3 tuners in a box grabbing satellite/cable/ota
but storage was expensive back then. ack. while recording all that i started thinking… how am i going to organize all this shit. which lead to many a nas.
i went from myth --> sagetv --> xbmc/emby (ha, now kodi/jellyfin)
i miss sage… it was great, modern… lightweight. google bought the company for their code and killed it outright.
So I just bought one of these and it should be delivered today. I also didn’t know about tunarr and the idea of making my own channels is like catnip so this little maneuver is gonna cost me 51 years of my spare time.
So i did it, even though I’m supposed to be working on a couple papers for school on business ethics. I bought a tuner and set up a tunarr container. I made a couple of fake channels using content from my library: a channel that plays horror movies 24/7 and a channel that plays action movies 24/7, mostly just for testing. Then I got an antenna, $30 from Target and since I live in a big-ish city, I am getting 23 channels at good quality. Pretty nice.
The other kinda fun thing I did was make a movie trailers channel. My dad likes trailers and I have him set up to be able to connect to my server from a couple hundred miles away. He never goes to the movies anymore and with ads being horrendous on Youtube who the hell is going to sit there and watch movie trailers one after another. So I made a simple script that uses yt-dlp to go out and grab movie trailers from the rotten tomatoes trailers channel, 40 at a time, which I then have set up as a library, and then also as a channel that simply plays them nonstop. The guide for all of this is XMLTV and I set up a lineup container for handling the over-the-air channel guide info. Pretty easy project and a lot of fun. I admit, I’m not going to sit here and watch the gilmore girls, rizzoli and isles, or pawn stars every day, but I watch a lot of sports so this will def come in handy during playoffs.
A friend of mine keeps using Plex because he’s using an antenna to get local channels. I didn’t realize jellyfin had the ability to do that too.
