Live TV may be over for me

[jriker1 21]

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 19 hours ago by jriker1

[Luke 42083]

 

Hi there, let's look at an example. Please attach the information requested in how to report a media playback issue. Thanks!

 

[jriker1 21]

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 1817]

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

[jriker1 21]

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 1817]

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.

[daldana 122]

@jriker1,

I don't know if you're amenable to another monthly subscription or if you have the available hardware, but ChannelsDVR works as a great backend for Emby. It has the ability to pull in TVE channels from quite a few providers and also a few projects that capture website video (as long as you have either a subscription or it's included in your TV package). Once those are setup, you can bring them into Emby as M3U tuners.

[ab123ga 15]

@jriker1I've gone strictly to M3u. There are many providers out there or if you are willing to do the work you can manage your own system. I pretty much replicated everything I used to do with youtubeTV and have it in Emby. There are shortcomings at times where shows will stop for one reason or another, however I don't spend that much time trying to determine if its the provider who stopped sending data or is something local. I refresh my screen when that happens for live shows and it works for me. It can be frustrating for others who want a seamless experience but again it works for me.