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jriker1
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My family still loves WMC and won't let it go with their XBox 360 extenders.  Emby doesn't present as a replacement for them unfortunately.  Anyway, I had a HDHomeRun Prime with a cable card on my network and running to record shows in Emby and try and get the family to adopt it.  That said, besides shows frequently failing to fully record and stopping after say 38 minutes or whatever the HDHomeRun prime started dropping off the network the other day.  I eventually tracked it down to what I thought was the power supply but once I had a new one and it was up again, it seemed to see my cable card but not connect to Comcast.  When I trying and look at the card settings it shows "Information is not available." People say that means the cablecard is dead.  It showed the same on a second HDHomeRun I picked up to see what was going on as well so now have a spare useless one.  Anyway, I digress.  What are other people using to record shows on Emby?  Thinking I'm missing something that this is actively being developed and cablecards seem to be dead.  Most people say Comcast is going to refuse to replace and activate another card which means it's a dead option for me unless somehow it goes differently.  What are others recording TV shows with?

Edited by jriker1
jriker1
Posted

Know you guys are usually pretty good at responding but not sure if you read my rant.  What do you want me to send an example of?  I can't even use it anymore for recording because of my situation mentioned so was more of a question of what others are using based on what I mentioned.

arrbee99
Posted

Would it help to try with other software - I think NextPVR works with CableCards (whatever they are...)

jriker1
Posted

Sorry but again not reading my rant.  Card blew up and don't think Comcast will replace it.  Willing to try though if they do. Is this the next PVR plugin?  I noticed it's from 2024 so wasn't sure.

arrbee99
Posted

Wasn't sure if it was definitely established CableCard was dead, so thought maybe try again with different software. FYI NextPVR would be different software to try. The separate NextPVR plugin would let NextPVR talk to Emby.

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