[HN Gopher] Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from m...
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Tunarr: Create and configure live TV channels from media on your
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Author : Larrikin
Score : 136 points
Date : 2025-04-12 15:26 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| obviyus wrote:
| I tried this for a while with ErsatzTV and _really_ loved it. I
| don't have cable anymore but I remember fond memories of cycling
| through channels as a child.
|
| I set up a food channel that would cycle through Masterchef and a
| few travel cooking shows, one for anime and one for Bollywood
| movies.
|
| It was incredibly enjoyable. I could just put on a channel after
| work without having to consciously make a decision on what to
| watch. Just watch whatever's on the channel and switch over to
| something else if it didn't click!
|
| Definitely going to try this out on my NAS.
| skerit wrote:
| I tried ErsatzTV, but didn't manage to get it actually up and
| running. This was a few years ago though, guess I'll try again!
| dewey wrote:
| I've done it a few months ago and it was super smooth. Sounds
| like the process got better.
| thakoppno wrote:
| > fond memories of cycling through channels as a child
|
| One thing that's missing is the low-latency old analog systems
| had changing channels. Has anyone figured out a way to achieve
| this in the digital era?
| joezydeco wrote:
| I worked on a DVB-H receiver back in the day and we tried to
| speed it up by having a complete second tuner in hardware and
| starting the acquisition on the _next_ stream while decoding
| the first one.
| thakoppno wrote:
| That's fun. I suppose flipping up channels is far more
| common than down, but presumably one direction would be
| faster with this solution.
| justinsaccount wrote:
| Not really. the definition of what the 'next' stream is
| could easily change depending on what the last button you
| pressed, with the assumption that you would continue
| pressing that button: * up - next stream
| is one more channel up * down - next stream is one
| more channel down * last/prev - next stream is the
| previous channel.
| krick wrote:
| That sounds fun, is it computationally expensive? Is it, like,
| actually processing the stuff even if nobody's watching? I'm
| not gonna try it on my current NAS, because it's all HDDs and I
| can hear it in the room, so I mostly use it as "cold" storage,
| but your post really made me want to try it. Also, now that I'm
| thinking of it, must be pretty hard for HDDs too, if you don't
| use some dedicated all-SSD NAS specifically for that...
| ertian wrote:
| No, unless somebody starts a stream there's no computation.
| If nobody is watching, it's idle.
|
| If somebody tunes in, the server figures out where to start
| the stream and begins streaming.
| unixhero wrote:
| /r/homelab and /r/homedatacenter called. We love
| computationally expensive.
| smegger001 wrote:
| I have been threatening to do this for a while just put all of my
| dvd rips on a server on make channels based on genera scifi (star
| trek stargate etc) cartoon (loony toons popeye...) sitcoms
| (scrubs HowIMetYourMother Frasier Cheer) all of my kids horrible
| shows on another. i often find i end up flipping thorugh netflix
| with option paralysis when i mostly want background noise this
| would be nice.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| I recommend it! I did that and started using
| https://www.quasitv.app, which is similar. It completely
| removes the paralysis you're talking about.
| hypercube33 wrote:
| After using pluto.tv for a while this inspired me to look into
| some HD rf modulators and get this project going
| wpm wrote:
| Once you have the channels, the next step is to pick up a few old
| RF modulators and run your own cable TV network at home.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7m7OW2xrJE
| dantastic wrote:
| This is awesome! This is what I'd like to do at home albeit
| with DVB-T.
|
| I've seen a lot of clabretro's videos and am especially hooked
| on the token ring series. I don't know why since that was just
| outside of me starting to work on networking (we ran a
| 10-base-2 at home since my dad worked in networking) but he's
| so calm and a good story teller. Highly recommended channel!
| doublerabbit wrote:
| I recently bought an HDMI Transmitter and as my laptop's HDMI
| port doesn't output sound. I've rigged a Bluetooth RX/TX dongle
| plugged in to the headphone-out port which made me giddy in
| nerd. It's voodoo.
|
| Being able to stream from my laptop to my TV in 1080p without
| any additional cables and using emulators for games is kind of
| dark magic.
|
| I need to purchase a usb DAC and better quality BT streaming
| devices, creative a web-ui to finish the setup. But that was
| cool, would love to do something when I upgrade from an
| apartment especially with the 3x cable monitors.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| "If you want to play the TV channels in Plex using the spoofed
| HDHR, Plex Pass is required."
|
| FYI with ErsatzTV, the one I use, (which is great) a Plex Pass
| isn't needed.
| byronvickers wrote:
| If you've got it working then obviously it must be possible,
| but I'm a touch confused because the ErsatzTV documentation
| says "A Plex Pass is required for ErsatzTV to work with Plex."
| (https://ersatztv.org/docs/user-guide/configure-clients)
|
| Is it possible that you had this working in the past but Plex
| has since removed the functionality from their free tier?
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| I've never had a Plex Pass and I currently use ErsatzTV
| through Plex daily. I also tried out Tunarr this afternoon
| and got it working. Though I'll be sticking with ErsatzTV.
| floathub wrote:
| Now if you set up some DVR software to record the channel ...
| matthewcanty wrote:
| My dad, who passed away 2023, left a stack of over 100 VHS tapes
| full of 80s TV. It's mostly music (esp. bass guitar orientated),
| steam trains, photography and I think this would make the perfect
| way to digest that content.
|
| Thanks for sharing.
| aspenmayer wrote:
| Please consider uploading the tapes to Internet Archive,
| YouTube, an open directory, etc.
| digitaltinfoil wrote:
| What a dream!! This is something I have wanted for a long time,
| and can't wait to set this up
| haunter wrote:
| I'm backing up my Youtube favorites locally since 2018, so far
| 10k videos. I might try to use this because seems like would be a
| fun way to play them in the background on a second monitor.
| VTimofeenko wrote:
| I've been thinking about doing this. What's your setup?
| madphilosopher wrote:
| Not the OP, but I have a Postfix mail server running on my
| home media box that receives YouTube URLs sent to its special
| email address. Postfix passes the message to a Python script
| that parses out the URL and places it into a Redis queue. A
| second Python program, running as a daemon, watches the queue
| and then downloads the video using yt-dlp. I can also enqueue
| video URLs from the command line.
|
| This is the command that the daemon runs to request 720p, for
| example: command = 'yt-dlp --write-info-
| json -f "bv*[height<=720]+ba" --output "out.%%(ext)s"
| --merge-output-format mp4 "%s"' % url
| yard2010 wrote:
| You live in the future
| darkwater wrote:
| Sounds like how RMS browses the web. Nice setup, by the
| way.
| haunter wrote:
| yt-dlp
|
| I just parse the URLs from the liked playlist every couple of
| days with a Chrome extension then simply run the app.
|
| yt-dlp would work automatically too with logins but I'm
| always too nervous that Google would just straight up ban my
| account for whatever reasons. So I rather do it in a more
| manual way.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| I run a flask app with an endpoint that takes a video URL and
| runs yt-dlp. I have a bookmarklet that submits the URL of the
| current video page I'm on to the web service.
|
| Also when I'm in NewPipe on the phone I can go to a video and
| share the URL to an app that forwards it to the web service.
| unixhero wrote:
| Yes!!! I have been wanting to make this for a long time. I want
| to make 1990s TV channels and have them on TVs around the house.
|
| I just love the feeling this gives. I'm even almost tempted to
| add some K-Mart infomercials vhs rips:)
| nighthawk454 wrote:
| Does anyone know how this compares to ErsatzTV?
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