Adding dizqueTV as a DVR in Plex - vexorian/dizquetv GitHub Wiki

To clarify some confusion. Plex Live TV is not necessary to use dizqueTV. There are many clients that can play dizqueTV's streams. So if you don't have a Plex pass, do consider the alternatives.

If you do have a Plex Pass, there are some good reasons to setup dizqueTV in Plex Live TV:

• You can play dizqueTV's channel in any Plex client connected to your account. And Plex supports quite a few devices.
• You can share the channels with other people in your plex home. Unfortunately, it is not possible to share with people outside your plex home.
• It has a cute TV guide UI.

That said, there are a couple of disadvantages:

• Plex might want to transcode the stream in order to help it play in its other clients. That increases the number of potential transcodes to 3...
• Since Plex thinks dizqueTV is a HDHR, it continuously records the stream as if it was a DVR session.
• If you already have a HDHR setup in Plex, it is not easy to be able to run dizqueTV alongside your other channels. You'd have to use a workaround like xTeVe.

Setup

Add the dizqueTV spoofed HDHomerun tuner to Plex via Plex Settings.

If the tuner isn't automatically listed, manually enter the network address of dizquetv. Example:

127.0.0.1:8000

When prompted for a Postal/Zip code, click the "Have an XMLTV guide on your server? Click here to use that instead." link.

Enter the location of the .dizquetv/xmltv.xml file. Example (Windows):

C:\.dizquetv\xmltv.xml

You can also use the web UI url. .e.g:

http://192.168.0.10:8000/api/xmltv.xml

Where 192.168.0.10 is dizqueTV's IP and 8000. This is a helpful way to share the xmltv when using docker or when Plex and dizquetv are running on different machines.