I'm fairly new to the IPTV world and looking for some advice. I have only done 1 trial of an IPTV provider and was pretty impressed with the offerings. For me, it really comes down to being able to do a custom setup which is what I'm asking advice on. I do have an NVIDIA shield, a premium plex subscription and no problem running a 24/7 local server. I only want a handful of channels as most channels I find worthless. Being fairly new, I don't care for custom APK's at being at the mercy of X IP provider for the quality of the app instead I want to use a service that supports setting up my own custom setup.
The main thing I want is a DVR and I don't want or expect the IPTV provider to supply it. I want to be able to import a high quality stream (I have plenty of bandwidth) and set up a custom channel list as I only watch a handful of channels. I want to be able to pull up a high quality, fast lag free EPG and set a recording for my favorite shows on my favorite channels. I only need a high quality stream from the IPTV provider and I can provide the hardware be it a full server or NVIDIA shield with plenty of hard drive storage to store the recorded shows. I do like the GUI of plex and have setup KODI before but really just looking for advice from some users who have this kind of setup. Any suggestions for hardware/servers/software to get me started that would record the stream for the shows I want from the IPTV provider without relying on a custom APP from an IPTV provider?
With your Plex pass, a 24/7 server, decent IPTV provider supplying a m3u link, you’re good to go.
Add the following to use Plex as your DVR. Xteve Webgrab
If the IPTV provider also has EPG, that’s great.
Otherwise, use xTeve (xteve.de) to combine m3u and epg from other sources (like Webgrab ++).
In plex you can set up the xteve output as dvr device. Connect the xteve EPG signal too and you can record and watch tv in Plex.
The xteve output can be used in all other IPTV clients that support m3u.