An added benefit is that using the Channels app on the FireTV gives you live TV as well if that is your choice.Ĭhannels appears to be totaly focused on one service, live TV, whereas Plex wants to manage all your media and it is losing the plot in my opinion. I can access my server via VPN so I have been able to make the changes remotely.

Once again I am missing episodes of a season.Ĭhannels now has its own Firetv app, its remote access is stable and so I have disabled the Plex DVR and switched back to Channels and may just dump Plex completely. We are now away and Plex is up to its old tricks and missing recordings and gaps in the guide. Then Plex appeared to get its guide together so I suspended my Channels sub. I used Channels to record and Plex to distribute the media. I signed up for what is a much more expensive option of Channels, $80 per year or $8 monthly against the $100 or so that I paid for my life time Plex pass. Whilst all this was going on Plex appeared focused on addon services like their own TV channels and so on. To get a season of something complete became a triumph.

Recordings missed, guide data failing to download or download correctly. I had bought a lifetime pass on Plex so I seemed set and indeed was for a couple of years.Īt first all went well but over the last year maybe longer, after Plex changed its guide data provider from Gracenote, the whole package has turned sour.

This was enhanced when I started the transition from Satalite TV on the van and moved to Firetv as there was a Plex app for the stick. I have used Plex as my media management tool initially for its basic abilities and also the roaming access. For some time I have been using my home QNAP server to manage TV recordings via 2 HDHomerun Quatros (gives you 8 recording tuners in effect) for several years and am onto my second server upgrade.

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