muxy

Emulates a HDHomeRun device while streaming from M3U IPTV streams.

Add localhost:8080 as a DVR tuner in Plex.

WARNING

As of now, Plex does accept TS streams, meaning this code is far too complex for what it's worth. Please check out a much simpler implementation such as telly instead: https://github.com/tombowditch/telly

Usage

./muxyProxy http://site.com/my-iptv-playlist.m3u8

Why?

Plex currently does not support IPTV directly, only using network tuners such as a HDHomeRun. tvhProxy is cumbersome because it requires a tvheadend installation, resulting in extra latency. Ideally, Plex would need practically direct access to the IPTV streams and do all the DVR stuff itself.

How does it work?

It reads your M3U8 playlist to show Plex a channel list. The download link in the playlist is a reference to muxy itself, with the download link base64 encoded in the URI. When plex requests a file, muxy downloads the cronological TS files and serves the MPEG stream to Plex.

Debugging

Run muxy in verbose logging mode: ./muxyProxy -v 10 -logtostderr <path-to-m3u> Try accessing http://localhost:8080/lineup.json and try out one of the stream URLs. (e.g. http://localhost:8080/stream/xxxxx)

Building

You just need go and automake. To build, do a make in the source directory. Your executable will be muxyProxy.

Credits

Big thanks goes out to @jkaberg for his work on tvhProxy, where I got the idea from.