There’s no easy way, for instance, to start watching a program from the point at which you left off, and Emby seemed to categorize all recorded programs–including movies–as “TV.” Also, because Emby always defaults to maximum video quality, I had to fiddle in some situations to avoid buffering, and to remove interpolation artifacts in Emby’s Fire TV app. Without a subscription, you can only watch live TV channels.Įmby would benefit from just a little more polish as well. Once the HDHomeRun is connected to your router, Emby should detect it automatically.įinally, Emby requires its own Premiere subscription for DVR service, priced at $5 per month, $50 per year, or $100 for life. This is the only way to avoid any ongoing service charges with Emby DVR, but it’s a huge hassle. The easiest path to procurement is a $25-per-year subscription to Schedules Direct, whose login credentials you can plug directly into Emby’s menu.Īlternatively, you can grapple with a program like MC2XML to generate a file that Emby can read, drawing on free TV guide sources. (The Extend isn’t entirely necessary if you have a powerful PC, since Emby can handle transcoding on its own.) For cable subscribers, the $130 HDHomeRun Prime can stream live TV with a CableCARD, though it can only record unencrypted channels.Īfter setting all that up, Emby’s configuration menu should detect the HDHomeRun automatically, but you still need a source of guide data to see what’s on. The entry-level HDHomeRun Connect costs $99, while the HDHomeRun Extend costs $180 and adds built-in transcoding, which consumes less bandwidth and storage.
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