faux-tuner

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

Documentation

Additional guides and documentation is available in our wiki.

• Plex-Media-Server-Setup

Basic Usage

Start

faux-tuner start

Status

faux-tuner status

Stop

faux-tuner stop

You can also use faux-tuner in your own projects as a standalone library.

Simple Server Example

const fauxTuner = require('faux-tuner');
 
fau#xTuner.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');
});