xTeVe VS ErsatzTV

with an IPTV provider, you can proxy the m3u playlist from that through xTeVe to have Plex find it as a virtualized "tuner" and then just set it up just like a HDHR. it works surprisingly smoothly, assuming your IPTV provider is decent. https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe

ok so your post got me to look at xTeVe some more and i found this - https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe/issues/25

This project achieves this https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe

Excuse my ignorance but what and where is xTeVe's discord? Do you mean this https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe/ ?

XTeVe

Then I tried Xteve Pros: All Channels are available Cons: Recordings don't really work, they tend to record a 2-minute segment for the entire time Viewing doesn't really work, a lot of errors. Very random. I think it has to do with the buffering setup.

You might be able to get something working with xTeVe, though I've personally never used it.

Look into xTeVe. Basically, feed your IPTV sources into xTeVe then offer the xTeVe installation to Plex as a TV tuner.

The piece of the puzzle your missing is this: xTeve

hahaha I learned everything I know from /r/Datahoarder, /r/buildapcsales(for the HDDs, currently have 24tb's) and ErsatzTV for the IPTV server.

Greetings, all! I am attempting to set up a fantasy TV station for my friends. Currently, I am using ersatztv for the backend, which provides me with all of the content and channel creation and management. So far I am happy with it because it provides hardware transcoding for the streams on consumer hardware.

Yep, another one is https://ersatztv.org/

Personally, my preferred one is ErsatzTV. It's for a couple of reasons but they mainly come down to not being tied directly to the media server application itself.

ErsatzTV: https://ersatztv.org/ — custom IPTV channels from my media library (e.g., a comedy channel, 1980s movies, etc)

Projects like DizqueTV and https://ersatztv.org/ were created to emulate a HDHomeRun to make “fake live tv” available in Plex’s Live TV interface, using Library content to emulate live TV channels you would pick up over an antenna.

I have a potato (J4105) Plex server and tried DizqueTV, ErsatzTV and Jason's DizqueTV fork very recently. But I couldn't get it stable unfortunately. When one series would work great, another one wouldn't, or even refused to play. Or certain program boundaries made the player crash from time to time. And watermark overlays were another story of it's own.