faux-tuner

A virtual tuner card and EPG guide for online live TV sources like PlutoTV and Locast. Designed to work with Plex Media Server’s Live TV / DVR feature.

Largely inspired by (and parts shamelessy stolen from) locast2plex.

Services

• PlutoTV
• Locast
• IPTV / HLS Streams (coming soon)
• Redbox Live TV (coming soon) https://www.redbox.com/stream-free-live-tv

Installation

npm install -g https://github.com/FauxTuner/faux-tuner.git

If you get a permission error, you may need to use sudo:
sudo npm install -g faux-tuner

CLI Commands

Start

faux-tuner start

Status

faux-tuner status

Stop

faux-tuner stop

Simple Server Example

const fauxTuner = require('faux-tuner');

fauxTuner.listen(3130, () => {
  console.log('Server listening at localhost:3130');
});

Express Middleware Example

const express = require('express');
const fauxTuner = require('faux-tuner');
const app = express();

app.use(fauxTuner);

app.listen(3130, () => {
  console.log('Server listening at localhost:3130');
});

Documentation

Additional guides and documentation is available in our wiki.

• Plex-Media-Server-Setup

Setting up Services

First configure and enable your Live TV providers using the FauxTuner web interface. You can access these at http://localhost:3130/web/ once your installation of Faux Tuner is up and running.

Default Web UI Login:
Username: admin
Password: fauxtuner

Locast

1. Login to the faux-tuner web UI.
2. Click on the Lodash secion.
3. Enter your login credentials.

An active Locast account is required to access this service. Learn more at https://locast.org

PlutoTV