Can't Tune With Mac Mini

tbone25556

I'm using a synology NAS to store all of my drives/data, then mount those drives on a network connected Mac Mini. I run Plex this way, and it has worked out really well. I've tried a couple times to set up ErsatzTV and I can't seem to get it to consistently work.

I have Plex as my source, and then use the Live TV function on Plex to create a guide. I am able to create channels through ErsatzTV, and they do show up as functioning on my Plex client. But, I only was able to get one channel to work on a client briefly, and now I can't get any to stream. I currently have 3 channels figured, and they all properly pull in information and populate the guide.

I get an error that says 'Could not tune channel. Please check your tuner or antenna.'

This clients are all in network with the Mac Mini. Finally, when I use the ErsatzTV WebUI it shows that my media source for my Mac Mini is at the address http://localhost:32400 Should I have an IP address here instead of just local host?

Thanks for any direction on where I may be going wrong here.

jason

I can't quite tell what you're asking, but it's usually best to start with the channel preview in ETV itself (the play button in the channel list). If channels play correctly there, then you would progress to adding it to Plex.

If Plex is on the same machine as ETV, then localhost would probably work correctly, but it depends on whether they are native apps, docker, etc.

Let's start with the channel previews, and please also paste your full ETV version (found below the left menu).

tbone25556

Thanks for replying. I checked my version, and it was a very old build, which probably was part of the problem. I tried updating to version v25.6.0-osx-arm64. Unfortunately, I seem to be stuck in an endless loop on the health check. I have uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times, and on the web ui it shows that there is a support issue (shows exclamation mark) and then a 1 next to Health Checks. But after that it just endlessly shows a scan at the top of the support page, and never gives me a message. On the log it shows that it successfully synchronized plex library as the last entry each time.

Thanks for your patience in responding on this, I am a novice on this but really liked the service when I had it set up properly.