tvhProxy

A small flask app to proxy requests between Plex Media Server and Tvheadend. This repo adds a few critical improvements and fixes to the archived upstream version at jkaberg/tvhProxy:

• SSDP Discovery. Fixes the issue of Plex randomly dropping the device.
• XMLTV EPG EPG export, including adding dummy programme entries for channels without EPG so you can still use these channels in Plex (see below for Plex configuration URL)
• Configuration of variables via dotenv file

tvhProxy configuration

1. Check tvhProxy.py for configuration options and set them up them as KEY=VALUE pairs in a .env file.
2. Create a virtual enviroment: $ python3 -m venv .venv
3. Activate the virtual enviroment: $ . .venv/bin/activate
4. Install the requirements: $ pip install -r requirements.txt
5. Finally run the app with: $ python tvhProxy.py

systemd service configuration

A startup script for Ubuntu can be found in tvhProxy.service (change paths and user in tvhProxy.service to your setup), install with:

$ sudo cp tvhProxy.service /etc/systemd/system/tvhProxy.service
$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
$ sudo systemctl enable tvhProxy.service
$ sudo systemctl start tvhProxy.service

Plex configuration

Enter the IP of the host running tvhProxy including port 5004, eg.: 192.168.1.50:5004, use http://192.168.1.50:5004/epg.xml for the EPG (see Using XMLTV for guide data for full instructions).

Should the proxy keep disappearing or you can't add it, it's worth trying to delete the existing configuration from the database:

• See https://support.plex.tv/articles/201100678-repair-a-corrupt-database/ on how to access the plex config database and
• run delete from media_provider_resources; to remove any leftover config.