Overwhelmed trying to start for the first time

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I have multiple HDHomeRun Prime Tuners, and I have Roku at home and at my daughter's home. I'd like to use Emby both at home and set it up for my daughter's Roku. Reading the FAQ's and stickies has me overwhelmed and confused. I have multiple PC's and as I said Roku boxes. I'm thinking of putting the server on a Zbox running an AMD APU, and then using the client on an HTPC at home, and I'd like to use the Rokus as well. Does anybody have a simple todo list of what to do for a fresh start? I'm not sure if I need WMC, and where I put my saved recordings or how I even create them.  Thanks.

[MSattler 387]

So.... it's a somewhat complex question dependent upon what tuners you have, and who your cable company is.  The following I wrote out with the thought of being somewhat tuner agnostic.

 

So let's assume you have HDHomeRun or Ceton tuners, and your cable company sets Copy/Viewing restrictions on the content, in that case you need to do the following:

 

1)  Setup a Windows Media Center PC

2)  Go through the typical steps to add HDHomerun/Ceton tuners to the host, and also run the digital cable advisor.

3)  Once you have live TV running on that Media Center PC you install ServerWMC.  ServerWMC will make the channels/tuners available to Emby.

4)  Inside of your Emby Server, install the serverWMC plugin.  

5)  Configure the serverWMC pluyin, give it the IP address of your Media Center PC, ensure the FW settings on the Media Center PC allow Emby to connect to it.

6)  After Emby is able to successfully connect you should have Guide/Live TV inside of the Emby Web Client, Roku, Android clients, etc.  Do note the Emby server must be powerful enough to provide transcoding for each live channel to be watched via Emby.

 

Let's assume you have Verizon FIOS and there are no limitations by the provider for your channel and you have HDHomerun Tuners:

 

1)  Install the EmbyTV plugin <Currentlyin Dev>

2)  Configure the EmbyTV plugin to point at your HDHomerun Tuners.

3)  Sign up with ScheduleDirect for EPG <$25 a year>  

4)  Configure Schedule Direct account info in the Emby TV Plugin.

5)  Allow the plugin to update EPG.

6)  Now you should have Live TV capability in the Emby Web Client, Roku, Android clients,etc.  Do note the Emby server must be powerful enough to provide transcoding for each live channel to be watched via Emby.

7)   Saved recordings would be saved where-ever you configure them to be saved to.  I don't believe this is 100% functional yet.  

 

 

 

-Marcus

Edited April 21, 2015 by MSattler

[MSattler 387]

 

Edited April 21, 2015 by MSattler

[Bibbit 0]

So.... it's a somewhat complex question dependent upon what tuners you have, and who your cable company is.  The following I wrote out with the thought of being somewhat tuner agnostic.

 

So let's assume you have HDHomeRun or Ceton tuners, and your cable company sets Copy/Viewing restrictions on the content, in that case you need to do the following:

 

1)  Setup a Windows Media Center PC

2)  Go through the typical steps to add HDHomerun/Ceton tuners to the host, and also run the digital cable advisor.

3)  Once you have live TV running on that Media Center PC you install ServerWMC.  ServerWMC will make the channels/tuners available to Emby.

4)  Inside of your Emby Server, install the serverWMC plugin.  

5)  Configure the serverWMC pluyin, give it the IP address of your Media Center PC, ensure the FW settings on the Media Center PC allow Emby to connect to it.

6)  After Emby is able to successfully connect you should have Guide/Live TV inside of the Emby Web Client, Roku, Android clients, etc.  Do note the Emby server must be powerful enough to provide transcoding for each live channel to be watched via Emby.

 

Let's assume you have Verizon FIOS and there are no limitations by the provider for your channel and you have HDHomerun Tuners:

 

1)  Install the EmbyTV plugin <Currentlyin Dev>

2)  Configure the EmbyTV plugin to point at your HDHomerun Tuners.

3)  Sign up with ScheduleDirect for EPG <$25 a year>  

4)  Configure Schedule Direct account info in the Emby TV Plugin.

5)  Allow the plugin to update EPG.

6)  Now you should have Live TV capability in the Emby Web Client, Roku, Android clients,etc.  Do note the Emby server must be powerful enough to provide transcoding for each live channel to be watched via Emby.

7)   Saved recordings would be saved where-ever you configure them to be saved to.  I don't believe this is 100% functional yet.  

 

-Marcus

 

Thank you for the reply. I am very impressed by its clarity.

 

Please forgive my slow response; I have had both system problems at home and family problems (an unexpected stay in the hospital). I'll try this as soon as I can. My work suddenly requires I add a new VM to my main workstation's setup for some coding I have to do, so I'm not sure when I can get it all done. I upgraded the memory on my main box to 32GB to handle the increased load. I may also use that box for the Emby server. It's an i7 4770 that now has 32GB total, some at times grabbed by a VM. I think it should be able to handle the load if I choose it. I'm thinking the AMD APU setup I was considering may not be up to the transcoding part.  Thanks again!

 

PS

I do have FiOS, and 2 HDHomeRun Prime boxes. Nice guess

 

Now that I think about it, can Emby use Quick Sync via the 4600 GPU onboard my i7 for faster transcoding? That little puppy really speeds up MCEBuddy and some other apps I use. The difference is night and day.

[Luke 36999]

If you don't mind, I would like to hear more about how you felt overwhelmed so that we can improve upon that.

[Bibbit 0]

If you don't mind, I would like to hear more about how you felt overwhelmed so that we can improve upon that.

 

That's a good question. Maybe I read too much here, but in going through the various forums and wikis I got overwhelmed by all the opinions and such. I didn't find a post that was clear about the simplicity of doing what I hope to do. I started thinking I might have to try several live TV alternatives before I found a good one, and that I might need to tweak various settings/configurations before I hit on one that worked for me. I don't mind coding and such, it's part of what I do, but to start out what I really wanted was a simple FAQ along the lines of

If your goal is A, and you're starting from scratch, then you'll have to do:

• B - see wiki here for help
• C - see wiki here for help
• D - see wiki here for help
• etc - see wiki here for help

If your goal is S, and you're starting from scratch, then you'll have to do:

• B - see wiki here for help
• C - see wiki here for help
• F - see wiki here for help
• etc - see wiki here for help

If your goal is to add X, then you'll have to do:

• F - see wiki here for help

There is clearly lots of help here, but it struck me as primarily for specific tasks such as How to install this or How to configure that.

 

I hope that helps, no pun intended.