Tuners in different regions?

[Chiefmas 37]

This is mostly a hypothetical question really- I was kicking around thoughts with a buddy...

Is guide support per/tuner or is it for the server instance, i.e. assumes all tuners will be more or less local to the server?

The idea being what would happen if we setup a network VPN bridge between us, and then I tried adding his tuner to my Emby instance(we are in different states)?

To be clear- I'm not really asking for, or expecting this to be something that Emby could remotely cope with. Just came up as a "huh, I don't know- I wonder what it would do"

Thanks

 

[Luke 40151]

Hi, yes you can add mulitple guide sources and set one up for each tuner if you need to.

[Chiefmas 37]

Cool, thanks!

 

[Carlo 4552]

If you use HDHomeRun tuners for this, there is a trick you need to do to "fix" the TTL setting of 3 used by these devices.
Not understanding the TTL setting or the reason the tuner doesn't work if a trace route shows more than 3 hops (basically the Internet) between you and the device can be a frustrating time trying to diagnose as it's not very commonly changed.  But knowing the default TTL is set to 3 easily explains why it doesn't work until you reset the TTL to 64 or similar.

Don't let that scare you at all, I used to have a few remote HDHomeRuns located at friends and relatives' so I could record different sporting events. I had 2 in Florida & California and 1 each in NY City, Boston & Chicago & Pittsburg. I'm in southern New Jersey and got Phila via OTA (42 miles) & Cable as well as Baltimore/Washington sports OTA at 62 to 67 using a big tower mounted antenna.

Besides the TTL thing, make sure the remote location has the needed upload speed with 50% margin to cover the number of tuners you'll be using. A home internet plan with only 10Mb upload for example wouldn't be idea to use.

Once you've got the tuners working in Emby it's easy to setup for Guide data as Emby doesn't care where the tuners are location. Each guide lineup you create can be based on a different zipcode allowing each tuner guide data for its remote location.

Carlo

[Chiefmas 37]

Thanks for the info, that's good to know about the TTLs on the outbound streams- I'll keep an eye on the hop count. We're all IT professionals on symmetric fiber, and one of us is a former Cisco network engineer, so we should be able to manage it.

 

[Carlo 4552]

I'll be a piece of cake for you guys then!

Carlo