HDR-FOX T2 to HDHomeRun, my journey

[prpr]

If you have the software running in a VM you might be just borderline on the TTL, so it's not reliable. I think you said you had changed the VM software so maybe the software you are using now is just a bit slower in forwarding packets between the virtual machine and the physical network card?

Clearly you have no idea what TTL actually is.

 

[Clegg]

As a previous user of HDR-T2 and sadly having to retire it, this thread has inspired me to do something similar.. but Linux based. I managed to get something set up using a HDHR Flex Quattro plus bog standard Linux server running Jellyfin. It works perfectly fine for my needs - recordings are not missed and I can remote schedule. However, unlike dvrontime it does not allow AR and series link will not work for all programmes due to the nature of the public epg data.

 

[prpr]

series link will not work for all programmes due to the nature of the public epg data.

Series link works fine if the broadcasters set it, otherwise it can't be expected to. All PVRs recording off-air use the same data. There is no 'public' distinction.
I have no idea what an 'HDHomeRun DVR guide' subscription is for. Seems like a way to stiff you out of £35/year for something that is free.

 

[Clegg]

By public epgs I am referring to freely available epgs for IPTV purposes e.g. epgshare01 or bevy. So to achieve series link in Jellyfin, it requires specific XML tags created by the free epg provider. With Jellyfin it is not a true series link, you can just set it to record all episodes in a particular series if the relevant XML tags are included.

 

[Black Hole]

I think what we don't understand is why these units/software are not utilising the CRID information in the broadcast stream (if that is the case). Is it that the HomeRun does not expose them / provide access to them?

With Jellyfin it is not a true series link, you can just set it to record all episodes in a particular series if the relevant XML tags are included.

That sounds link a series link to me! What else would it be?

 

[Clegg]

I think what we don't understand is why these units/software are not utilising the CRID information in the broadcast stream (if that is the case). Is it that the HomeRun does not expose them / provide access to them?


That sounds link a series link to me! What else would it be?

Well, it works! It just doesn't make use of CRID information. For modern setups based on HDHomeRun it looks like we are seeing a shift from CRID to xmltv tags for series link management. However the problem with xmltv is that it needs to be populated with appropriate tags for series link and this is not happening by the free epg providers (you see it for some shows, but not all). So it looks like a diy epg if you are to get a free solution that 100% works. I'm not sure if other free Linux-based systems (e.g. NextPVR) can allow series link for instances where you have missing or wrongly formatted xml tags. I hear Channels DVR is the gold standard. I assume that as part of their service they provide the xml with relevant tags for series linking. So essentially it is possible to get a free DIY Linux-based system that 100% works (e.g. Jellyfin), but we need someone to curate the epg xml so that it plays ball for series link. Rather that having one person doing this for fun and hosting (e.g. epgshare01) I think it might be best if someone develops a python script that scrapes a reliable UK epg and processes it into a format suitable for Jellyfin or similar.

 

[Clegg]

By the way, congratulations to the OP on developing a windows-based solution. As I am so entrenched in Linux, unfortunately I cannot implement your solution. Another pro of using Jellyfin or similar is that it scrapes for metadata (tvdb and tvmaze) and the recordings are nicely organised. These are also streamed to any clients with the Jellyfin app. OP: where does the epg data for DVROnTime come from? I am looking into developing a script to process an epg (ideally from an OTA source) as per my previous post.

Also, for the HDHR Flex Quattro, did you manage to allow multiple channels to be streamed by the same tuner if they are on the same mux, or is it just one channel per tuner.