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On 2018-01-26, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 11:29 AM, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> The main backend options seem to be MythTV, Plex, and TVHeadend. |
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> You seem to understand the pros/cons fairly well. |
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> I moved from MythTV to Plex about two years ago, but as a result of |
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> moving from DVR to discrete media files, which MythTV was a poor fit |
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> for. The DVR service is new for Plex and I've never tried it, though |
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> it would be free for me to use (I have a lifetime Plex pass). I don't |
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> have any tuners set up at all right now and no easy ability to watch |
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> LiveTV of any kind. |
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Live TV is not a priority at all and would be the first thing I would |
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give up in order to gain in other areas. |
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> One pain I always had with MythTV was any time where I wanted to run |
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> different distros on front-ends vs servers, because the protocol |
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> changes from time to time and upstream does not support anything |
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> other than all clients and servers running on the exact same build. |
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Yep. You can make it work, but it takes effort. |
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I was never able to find an option for an acceptably small and silent |
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Myth fontend. The last time I was looking into that, the Raspberry Pi |
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3B seemed like a decent option, but reports indicated it still took a |
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lot of futzing to get it work. |
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> The thing I like about Plex is that upstream basically tries to keep |
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> everything painless and "just working." |
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That's always good, and I'm more than happy to pay cash money for |
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that. |
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I'm guessing that Android client support is going to be better with |
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Plex than with the others. |
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> Now, MythTV in general is going to be more flexible with DVR |
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> capabilities, since it does have a database you can poke around in, |
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> and more of an API/etc. And of course it is open source so you really |
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> can patch whatever you want into it. |
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After reading through the Plex DVR wiki pages, I was pleasantly |
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surprised. It had some features that MythTV has but TvHeadend and/or |
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SageTv lacks: |
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* Minutes-before and minutes-after settings for a recording to |
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adjust for local TV station management decisions to skew |
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start-stop times. SaveTV lacked this, and it was annoying. [The |
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optimal solution is repeated beatings for the people who decide to |
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do that.] |
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* How many and which recordings to keep for each series. [SageTv |
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does have this.] |
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> In a pure DVR world I might still be running MythTV. I'd certainly |
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> evaluate Plex though. I'm not sure how easy it is to evaluate Plex |
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> DVR without paying something though. |
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One notable feature that (I think) TvHeadend lacks is the ability to |
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only record series episodes that haven't been previously recorded and |
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watched. Both MythTv and SageTv can do that, but I'm not sure about |
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Plex. |
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I'm still not sure how storage space management works with Plex's DVR. |
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AFAICT, TvHeadend doesn't provide any space management at all. |
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Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Where's th' DAFFY |
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at DUCK EXHIBIT?? |
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gmail.com |
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