I was just wondering... I have looked but can't seem to find how many recordings can be done simultaneously. I have Hulu+Live TV and a HDHomerun for my local channels.
From my experience, you are mostly only limited by how many tuners you have. I have two quatro HDHRs for 8 tuners, and Philo. I've got a 10TB external USB drive on an old 2012 Mac Mini, and I've seen it doing 12 simultaneous recordings.
FYI, you may want to look at alternatives to Hulu Live because its support of TVE is pretty poor compared to YTTV, Fubo, and Philo. You won't get many channels from it.
Thanks for the reply...
Actually I am pretty happy with Hulu Live…. There is only one station that I really like to watch, HLN, that I can’t get with Channels using TVE…. Whenever I want to watch it I just go into Hulu itself…. I also have the DVR that is part of Hulu but it rarely gets used…. I understood that the OTA was limited by the tuners but since there are no tuners that I am aware of for Channels DVR support of Hulu I wasn't sure if there were any limitations for those channels...
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In terms of recording TVE channels, In the afternoon I record 4-6 channels at the same time from 2:00PM - 8:00PM. I've not had an issue. I have 300mb internet connection for the down link. Also, during that time other family members are watching Channels DVR live, Hulu or Netflix as well. Do a test, set the max number of channels to record at the same time and see how it performs.
When I hit 12 simultaneous, I only had one HDHR, so most of that was TVE.
I have gigabit fiber. One thing you should aware of is that all this recording is going to drive your data usage WAY up, so if you have capped service you are going to likely go way over. I went from ~300GB with Uverse TV to ~750GB with YTTV/Philo to ~2700GB with Channels DVR recording TVE like crazy. Most service caps are 1000GB, so that would be quite painful. I think AT&T is like $10 per 100GB you go over, or $170 in my case. But my service isn't capped.
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The short answer is that Channels has no limitation on simultaneous TVE streams/recordings. You are only limited by your hardware/internet bandwidth, and possibly concurrent stream limitations imposed by your cable provider (although Generally those limitations don’t apply to TVE).
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I wonder how channels gets around the TVE limitation most company’s if not all only allow 3 live streams at the same per cable account.
TVE streams don’t count against you providers limits so you can stream away!
Not true lol, I work for the cable company had customers call in saying the system said you reached your limit on streams
I did ten at one time without any problem. I have a Quatro and a Synology 218+
TVE Streams are different not the same as Streaming Services from Cable Company or other streaming service I have seen no limit. As many as your bandwidth can handle.
Actually it seem only the premium movie channels have a limit.
As per the TV everywhere website
“ How many different devices can I use?
There is no limit to the number of devices you can use. However, TV networks may limit the number you can use at the same time. Please refer to the policies and terms of use for each app you use for details.”
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Remember there is only 1 login to the TV network regardless of how many devices you use. The first Device connected starts channels dvr downloading and streaming the show all other devices use the stream from the Channels DVR. So the networks only see 1 device.
Yes but number of concurrent streams is different from data caps
If your service has data caps, you need to be careful with TVE. I was using 300G when we had U-verse TV, up to ~750G when we switched to YTTV and Philo, and this month went over 2700G with Channels and recording everything.
Right, which is why this statement (especially out of full context) can be misleading:
Fortunately my provider (Spectrum) doesn't have data caps... for now... but if and when they do, I will have to rethink my TV and DVR setup, because I heavily rely on TVE and Channels, and I'm pretty sure it would end up being pricier than I want to pay.
For now, everything is working great though, so I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
Do you have any hints or tips on keeping the two HDHRs in sync? I keep running in to the case where setting a favorite or hiding a channel only does it on one quatro, I have to hide channels twice from the AppleTV On Now page.
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This is a very confusing area. The only thing I have seen to be reliable is if you hide them in the HDHR config, outside of Channels DVR, they are hidden everywhere. Otherwise this is an area the developers could improve a lot and they’ve said they are planning to.
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I agree with this as I was having trouble with a weak NBC signal from a nearby city that the DVR was trying to use even though it was supposed to be hidden in Channels DVR. The only solution that worked for me was to go into the HDHR tuner and hide/disable it there and everything is back to working as expected now.