RELATED > Self Hosting: Setting up a Personal Wiki with DokuWiki SETTING IT UPįirst off, sign up for a Locast account, select a market, and set up a monthly donation. This proxies the Locast stream and emulates a hardware TV tuner – just like connecting that physical HDHomeRun box I previously had. To get Locast streams into Plex requires another piece of software – locast2plex.

Locast does not integrate with Plex directly. In my market, that $5/month donation gets me 47 channels, including the local NPR affiliate, enough sports for my casual fan vibe, and every major local news network in HD. I think this is a service well worth supporting. They do this currently in 22 markets – mostly large cities – and it is funded by a $5/monthly donation if you want to stream or watch for more than 15 minutes at a time. Locast is a non-profit whose mission is to modernize and digitize public broadcast TV in the United States. And I know I’m not the only one with this problem – many people live in apartments where they can’t mount an antenna, or live too far from a broadcast source to reliably pick up a signal. Setting that up with Plex could not be more simple: Simple plug in an antenna and plug the tuner into your network, Plex auto-discovers it and populates the TV Guide.īut after moving to a dead spot in OTA reception, this wouldn’t work. The way I had solved this previously was buying a HDHomeRun TV tuner and a basic antenna. Thankfully, here in the US, Locast allows you to get local OTA TV over the internet.

Previously I had successfully used a TV tuner with Plex, but after moving to a new home that got terrible reception, I had to look for other solutions. Alongside my extensive movie collection, I also like to keep up on the local news and occasionally watch some sports or TV special. I have been a long time Plex user for years.

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