This means a show/movie must finish recording before it’s available to view. One of the biggest missing features right now is live and time-shifted viewing. Plex Server does work with HDHomeRun’s CableCARD tuners, in addition to their over-the-air tuners, for those of you with cable subscriptions trying to save money on cable box rental fees. This means a tuner built-in or plugged-in to your PC will not work. The only compatible tuners right now are the HDHomeRun line of networked tuners.

Of course, you can view any of the DVR’s recordings through a Plex client, but only a PC can do the recording. It will be coming to the NVIDIA Shield TV eventually, which received the ability to run a Plex server a few months ago. Plex DVR is currently only available through their PC server software. The programming guide uses Gracenote’s database and is included as part of the Plex Pass subscription. Unfortunately, you can’t schedule recordings using Plex’s client apps, like the one available for the Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The new Plex DVR feature adds two sections to the Plex server interface: Recording Schedule and Program Guide. Plex DVR is available right now through an open beta, but comes with several limitations that will hopefully be addressed before it’s official release in a few months. The feature requires a Plex Pass subscription, which runs $4.99 per month, $39.99 per year, or $149.99 lifetime. A Plex server can now be configured to work with compatible tuners to record shows directly.

Plex has added DVR capabilities to their server software.

Using plex with hdhomerun