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.

Plex and hdhomerun