Pluto TV on live TV SOLVED

[gbarone123 8]

I have been working on this tirelessly for several months, and have finally solved connecting Pluto TV to the live TV section. PlutoFix gives you a simple method for getting set up, with guide data, and reliably streaming Pluto on your media server. It provides a simple UI to select your desired channels, save them, and it auto generates the m3u and epg URL's required. Simple copy/paste them into your live TV setup and start streaming. I'm working on composing a detailed engineers log of the process, and the ridiculous nature of Pluto's stream, how I analyzed it, and the many, many failures I had along the way. I have been successfully using it on my server for several days now, but would love feedback. Enjoy!

Docker Compose:
git clone https://github.com/DmesgNoise/PlutoFix.git
cd PlutoFix/runtime
docker compose up -d

Open PlutoFix at:
http://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8890

M3U:
http://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8890/playlist.m3u

XMLTV:
http://YOUR-SERVER-IP:8890/epg.xml

Full installation instructions including Unraid, Portainer, and manual Docker:
https://github.com/DmesgNoise/PlutoFix

[richt 105]

Loaded this and added the tuner into my test instance of Emby and so far it is working.  Running a few tests to see how well it works.  

Questions

1. How many concurrent streams can be used from Pluto?
2. Seems to save recorded files as a transport stream (.ts) is that the way it is supplied by Pluto?  If not can you modify this to use an alternate encoding, such as mp4?

[gbarone123 8]

I have it set to 5 concurrent channels. Further releases will allow this limit to be user selectable. I have to run more tests to see about resource usage. Also planning GPU integration, which will increase the worker count. Unlimited clients can connect to the 5 workers (channels).

The video is converted to mpeg ts in transit to Emby to make a continuous stream, which Emby requires. I haven’t explored other formats. I’ve been stress testing it against several channels. Please let me know how it works out for you, and any logs you’re willing to provide if you run into issues.

Enjoy!

[richt 105]

1 hour ago, gbarone123 said:

I have it set to 5 concurrent channels.

That's sufficient for testing.

Encountered an anomaly recording a TV Series with episodes streaming sequentially one after another.  The first episode recorded fine but messed up and didn't record the 2nd show streaming immediately after it.  Will see if that pattern continues.

I don't use a mixed library for recordings and there doesn't appear to be anything in the epg that differentiates movies from TV shows, so movies are being saved in my TV Recordings folder and associated library.  Is this a limitation of the epg source?

[gbarone123 8]

This is interesting. PlutoFix does nothing with recording, it just provides a continuous stream and guide data to Emby. I’m interested to see how that behaves going forward.

The movie vs TV show issue may be related to the XMLTV metadata provided in the EPG. I’ll have to investigate what I’m currently passing through and see if Pluto provides any program type data I can include.

[Uncle_Frank 6]

I'm not doing much tonight maybe I will setup Pluto TV on my Emby see how it works, if I end up doing it I will post a video here, cheers

[Uncle_Frank 6]

I was going to run my pluto server through emby but meh I can't even be bothered I have so many servers going the heck with it. gbarone123 keep up the good work though bro 

 

Edited 39 minutes ago by Uncle_Frank

[gbarone123 8]

41 minutes ago, Uncle_Frank said:

I was going to run my pluto server through emby but meh I can't even be bothered I have so many servers going the heck with it. gbarone123 keep up the good work though bro 

 

I’ve actually combined this as part of a bigger app that now includes Tubi and Roku live tv as well. It’s got 1300+ available channels.