How to enjoy free streaming TV
Perfect your media server install by adding your own bespoke collection of streaming TV channels. Neil Mohr is your channel-hopping guide.
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Neil Mohr hasn’t got time to watch TV, though he catches the odd Bluey, which is a delightful children’s TV show and not what you’re thinking.
Among the films, TV, books and music, our Jellyfin install from the main feature (page 34) A is looking pretty sweet, but then the boss goes and asks, “What about free TV?” And we wriggle our bums nervously and say “Probably.” Jellyfin, being a fork of Emby, being a fork of Plex, does indeed support TV tuners – including scheduling and recording of live TV programmes. While we’re not going to specifically cover TV tuner use, we are going to tap into the two systems it adds to Jellyfin, which enable us to stream live TV for free from all over the globe.
That’s the good news. The bad news is that as what we’re doing isn’t really a standard thing, it’s a bit of fiddle to get up and running. But let’s get straight into setting it up. In the Jellyfin web client, select the hamburger menu > Dashboard > Live TV. There are two parts to the Live TV system: the tuner device and the TV Guide, aka the electronic programme guide (EPG).