2 Servers, 2 locations, 1 account?

Channels DVR Server
#1

I’ve got a full Channels setup at my house and it’s great. Two primes, Mac Mini, Apple TVs and I’m in business.

My parents will be spending more time at our house in the near future and I’d love to give them access to their home TV stations while away from home. So I’m thinking of taking a MacBoo Air and dual tuner HDHomeRun to their place and setting up Channels there for the expressed purpose of giving them access when they’re visiting.

Question - can I put three tuners, two local and one remote, all in one account and have them all shown up in the guide together? Or will I need to use a separate device with a separate account?

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The app can combine local and remote tuners, but cannot combine multiple DVRs. If there is a local DVR it will always be used and any remote DVRs will not connect.

You can have two servers under one account, but some things might not work. In particular only one can have remote access enabled.

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#3

It sounds like all I really need here is a remote tuner without DVR support. How does one set up a remote tuner?

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#4

The only way would be via some sort of vpn setup between both routers.

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#5

Are there plans to enable the ability to use multiple DVRs?

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#6

Unlikely. The whole system was designed and optimized for single household use. Changing it to recognize multiple DVRs and somehow combining multiple libraries and schedules together would be quite complicated.

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#7

I have a similar question along these lines. My friend and I have DVRs at each of our houses, and we have a site to site VPN setup. I can see his tuners, and he can see mine, but the Mpeg2 feeds don't traverse well even with good upload speed. Would you consider multi DVR support, but just for remote streaming (allows you to ignore the multi library complexity)?

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