{"id":781,"date":"2022-01-29T06:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-01-29T06:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ebnet.us\/?p=781"},"modified":"2022-03-31T21:07:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T21:07:30","slug":"plex-and-ustvgo-for-live-tv-an-for-free-using-docker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebnet.us\/index.php\/2022\/01\/29\/plex-and-ustvgo-for-live-tv-an-for-free-using-docker\/","title":{"rendered":"Plex and USTVGO for Live TV an for FREE using Docker!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Locast shutdown and I’ve been looking replacement where I could use Plex to watch live TV. I found USTVGO<\/strong><\/a> which is completely free and while it worked fine using my TV’s web browser I thought is there any to get this with Plex<\/strong><\/a> and USTVGO<\/a><\/strong> integrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Solution<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I found a project called Cabernet<\/strong><\/a> which included a USTVGO<\/strong> plugin and can act as a HD Homerun<\/strong><\/a> device on your network. Unfortunately I found the documentation at the time of this post almost non-existent other than if you’re running windows and just want to run an exe and create a simple config.ini file.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well I would prefer to run this as a Docker container so I searched for one… Nothing. Okay so I cloned the Cabernet GitHub repository<\/strong><\/a> and worked on getting a multi-arch docker image so I could run this in my Docker Swarm running on Raspberry Pi 4’s. While the Cabernet GitHub<\/strong><\/a> did contain some Dockerfiles<\/strong> I ran into too many problems until I switched from an Alpine based image to an official Python based image. Here’s my Dockerfile<\/a><\/strong> if you want try building one for yourself or you can use my multi-architecture Docker image here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dockerfile<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FROM python:3.9.10-slim\n#RUN apk add --no-cache --update bash tzdata ffmpeg py3-cryptography py-requests && \\\nRUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends bash tzdata ffmpeg curl && \\\n    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gcc musl-dev python3-dev libffi-dev openssl libssl-dev cargo && \\\n    python -m pip install --upgrade pip && \\\n    pip3 install requests && \\\n    pip install cryptography --no-binary=cryptography && \\\n    apt-get remove -y gcc musl-dev python3-dev libffi-dev && \\\n    rm -rf \/var\/lib\/apt\/lists\/* \n    \nRUN groupadd -g 1002 pies && \\\nuseradd -u 1004 -g pies -s \/bin\/sh pi-slave\n\nCOPY *.py \/app\/\nCOPY lib\/ \/app\/lib\/\nCOPY plugins \/app\/plugins\nRUN touch \/app\/is_container\n\n#USER 1004:1002\n\nENTRYPOINT [\"python3\", \"\/app\/tvh_main.py\"]\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
You will have to create a config.ini that contains the following and setup you Docker volumes accordingly<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[ustvgo_default]\nlabel = USTVGO Instance<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
So now that we have our Docker image its time to get our container up and running! Here’s my Docker-compose file<\/p>\n\n\n\n
version: \"3\"\nservices:\n  cabernet:\n    image: eblabs\/cabernet\n    environment:\n      - PUID=1000\n      - PGID=1000\n    ports:\n      - \"6077:6077\"\n      - \"1900:1900\/udp\"\n      - \"5004:5004\"\n    volumes:\n      - \/etc\/localtime:\/etc\/localtime:ro\n      - \/mnt\/swarm\/cabernet:\/app\/data\n    networks:\n      - proxy\n    restart: unless-stopped\nnetworks:\n  proxy:\n    external: true<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Now we should be able to access the web interface of Cabernet at http:\/\/yourdockerhost:6077<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Cabernet<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Now let’s enable the HD Homerun functionality<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
To make things easier lets change the settings to advanced by default. This setting is found at Internal->Display and change the Display Level to “3-Advanced”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Cabernet<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Now let’s enable this container as a virtual HD Homerun at Clients->HDHomeRun and uncheck disable_hdhr<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Cabernet<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Now you should change your plex_accessible_ip under Clients->Web Sites to the IP address of your Docker host<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Cabernet<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Adding Cabernet as a Plex DVR<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
On your Plex server go into settings and find Live TV & DVR. Click Add Device, If it Plex doesn’t find it try entering the address http:\/\/yourhost:6077 and then go thru the wizard…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"Plex<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
Now I did have to manually match a bunch of channels and your local stations most likely won’t be local but you still will get the national programming on your “local” stations<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Locast shutdown and I’ve been looking replacement where I could use Plex to watch live TV. I found USTVGO which is completely free and while it worked fine using my TV’s web browser I thought is there any to get this with Plex and USTVGO integrated. The Solution I found a project called Cabernet which...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,13,25],"tags":[9,38,37],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-docker","category-plex","category-raspberrypi","category-software","tag-docker","tag-live-tv","tag-plex"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ebnet.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/plex_logo.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Ed Brandon","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ebnet.us\/index.php\/author\/bigeb\/"},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t