Does anyone know if it’s possible to call the plex play media service to play a live TV channel from the Live TV & DVR within Plex that is only available if you add a OTA or cable card tuner to your Plex server? I’ve tried a few different things, but haven’t been able to figure it out.
Here’s what the plex player state looks like when playing a Live TV Channel.
However, I’m getting a couple errors such as it not being able to find the library “Live TV”. BTW, I’ve tried a few different combinations of media content id parameters so the error messages may look different than the service I showed.
Sorry it’s not currently possible. I haven’t looked into the underlying API, but it’s definitely different for live TV and DVR. I guess this is now a feature request.
Thanks for letting me know the current status. I would certainly use this if it was available so I would like it as a feature. Would you prefer I open up a feature request on github for it? Also if there’s any testing or anything needed for it, I’d be happy to help since I’m not sure who all has a tuner to test with.
+1 for this feature, though I’m sure it’s pretty niche. I’m trying to set up a morning routine that involves telling plex to start playing the local news station on my apple tv.
It would be super nice to be able to automate our news cast to play at various times throughout the day. Maybe we should all chip in and create a feature bounty? Assuming there’s avenues for such things
