xTeVe VS antennas

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

I think if tuner->tvheadend->antennas->jellyfin doesn't work, you're done, move on to a $50 Prime.

Personally I use a Internet Router with 4 DVB-Tuners inside (Fritz!Box 6660 Cable), connect them to a tvheadend (https://tvheadend.org/) instance which is then proxied to plex using a docker image of Antennas (https://github.com/jfarseneau/antennas). If i didn't have that Internet Router, I would probably connect a DVB-Tuner card compatible with tvheadend into a pc and do the same thing. You could probably also stream the free IPTV streams from https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv using xteve (https://github.com/xteve-project/xTeVe).

I use Antennas (https://github.com/jfarseneau/antennas) which makes your tvheadend instance show up as a Hdhomerun tuner. You could also check out xteve (https://github.com/xteve-project/xteve) and see it it would work for you

2) Installing an "HDHomeRun" emulator. I use Antennas for this, but fHDHR is a newer option.

For TVHeadend, I personally use Antennas which emulates an HDHomerun. This lets me pipe it in to Jellyfin with the native Live TV support, and everything works perfectly. For guide data, I just subscribe to SchedulesDirect which is also supported in Jellyfin.

As far as I am aware, the xbox tuner is not compatible with plex. Although you can use Antenna to emulate an HD Homerun.