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Service for TV-like programming? (piefed.social)

submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hiya,

Plex / Jellyfin are nice and all, but you know what I really want? A TV-like "channel" I can configure with TV shows & movies to play on a schedule. I miss the cycle of Morning News -> trashy daytime tv -> light afternoon programming -> prime time -> late night -> repeat, or simply turning on the TV & having something already playing. Or that one-button channel up/down to move to a totally different vibe. "Playlists" in Plex/Jellyfin almost do what I want, but they're difficult to pick up midway through, the "dumb shuffle" doesn't care if I've seen an episode recently, and I can't really mimic that daily tv cycle.

Is there a media streamer that does this? Do Plex/Jellyfin have that function & I've just missed it? If it doesn't exist, would someone be a pal and whip that up?

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[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

ErsatzTV is great for this, but it just entered maintenance mode and I don't think any forks are currently continuing the work. Still, it'll probably continue to work without issues for a long time.

[–] HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Dang. Yeah, that's exactly what I want. Shame to see it's unmaintained, but I'll have to give it a shot anyway.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 58 minutes ago

I ran it for a while and it was a little confusing to set up but worked well in the end. I did have some major issues with trying to use it alongside my HDHomeRun (local antenna channels) in Plex. xTeve allows you to combine the two programming schedules into one since Plex only allows for one at a time, but for whatever reason the output would come out all scrambled with shows being tied to the wrong channel. It seemed to work fine in Emby, so it should work fine in Jellyfin, and you likely wouldn't even encounter this since most people don't have live TV setup anyways.