If your connection isn't up to streaming, tell Plex to record it, and that Randolph Scott western that's airing at an ungodly hour of the night, too. If you're in London and the thought of missing Q&A live irks you, Plex can tune you in – subject to bandwidth of course. Of course, you can play back anything you've recorded, with all the usual controls like pausing, fast forward and rewind and 10-second skipping.Īnd with Plex's remote access service turned on, it can all be done over the internet. If you ask, Plex will attempt to identify and omit advertisements, and we've found that option pretty effective. There are controls for how many episodes to record, when to delete them, what resolution to save in, and whether to start or stop recording a little earlier or later in case a broadcast is running early or late. Instead of recording them to the general folder specified as part of setup, Plex neatly files them in the right folder for their show. When Plex notices that you already have TV programs in your media collection, it searches those shows out and offers to schedule recording for new episodes. That's the basics but it's only the beginning. An inexpensive Y-connector from any electronics store will split the TV cable so it can continue to service your existing television. Just connect it to your TV antenna cable and your network router via an ethernet port. And, of course, HDHomeRun plays nicely with Plex. With software clients available for Windows, Apple and Android desktops, notebooks, tablets and phones, Apple TV, PlayStation3, Xbox and Amazon's Fire TV, there's barely a device you're likely to have that you won't be able to use as a TV.

The Plex media streaming service can combine with a HDHomeRun Connect box to let you stream and record TV whenever and wherever you are.

Looking like a late nineties dial-up modem, it catches the free-to-air signal and pumps it through your network. Thanks to that re-education, we raced out to pick up a $159 HDHomeRun Connect by SiliconDust. In our recent review of the latest release of all-conquering media server Plex, we penned that its live TV and digital video recording (DVR) functions weren't yet working in Australia.Įagle-eyed readers promptly pointed out that the missing link – network TV tuners compatible with Aussie free-to-air broadcasting and with Plex – are now available.

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