Can we have the tuner sharing option within the app be ON by default, I’ve forgotten about this a few times when setting up new Apple TV’s. Ideally I’d like the setting the be in the DVR setting rather than individual app settings as well but defaulting to ON would work as well.
On-by-default caused a lot of issues for users with weak Wi-Fi coverage, older routers, etc. It leads to a lot of bad experiences, particularly for new users. Going back to that isn’t really an option.
A tuner sharing option on the DVR side might be the best long term solution. Maybe then we can also enable by default if the DVR machine is hard-wired.
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DVR side would be great
JW how does tuner sharing negatively affect a setup where one or two apple devices have weak signal? Is it trying to stream to both and then causing buffering issue on all devices based on the weakest device?
Usually the problem is when the DVR computer is on Wi-Fi, but if you’re still on 802.11n then clients can starve each other out as well.
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What is “tuner sharing”? I’m new to Channels and just set up the DVR and iOS / Apple TV 4K app. I saw the “tuner sharing” option on the app settings. My setup is Gig-Enet hardwired DVR to hardwired Apple TV (soon to be more Apple TVs). Some occasional iPhone or iPad use of live and recordings. Thanks
If there is another device watching or a recording in progress on a certain channel, and you decide to watch that channel on your device the DVR will “share” the same tuner… meaning you won’t be using up two tuners to watch and record the same channel at once.
Thanks for the explanation. Seems like everyone would wan the feature enabled, but it looks like trouble can occur with weak WiFi (and older routers?). I interpret the posts above to say that if you have two clients “sharing” a tuner and one connection starts to crap out, then both streams go down? I realize I can experiment with my settings, but right now I am running 4 tuners on Channels and 7 tuners on Windows Media Center (until I fully transition away from WMC) - so too many unknowns right now.
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Just curious, what’s unkown? If it’s whether or not to make the jump from WMC to channels then just do it. I did almost a year ago with no regrets. A lot more stable then what WMC became for me. The only thing you would have to figure out is how to watch your old WMC recordings because they can’t be imported.
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You should interpret it as this:
Tuner Sharing uses twice the bandwidth, by streaming from the HDHR to the DVR and then the DVR streaming at the same time to the client, rather than the client streaming directly from the HDHR. WiFi is half-duplex. For people with low-speed wifi networks that have no idea about what is going on, this will cause video issues and so users will complain that their Channels doesn’t work right… hence, it is an option for the power users with ethernet connections.
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Does this apply to TVE too or just OTA?
TVE is always shared because it always comes through the server.
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The post above about Tuner Sharing using twice the bandwidth is not accurate .. What tuner sharing does it assigns the Tuners to the Clients normally the Client would request the tuners. The DVR when tuner sharing is enabled knows what tuners are in use and what they are tuned to so if a client requests a channel that is already in use by a tuner that tuner will be assigned.