Jellyfin

Once you have your channels created with programming/shows added, head over to Jellyfin. The following pictures show step-by-step how connect Tunarr to your Jellyfin server.

1. Locate "Hamburger" menu on the Jellyfin homepage

2. Locate the "Dashboard" menu item under "Administration"

3. Locate the "Live TV" menu item under "Live TV" in the sidebar

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At this point, Jellyfin will ask for your tuner type - we recdommend selecting HD Homerun.

Note

Tunarr supports M3U and HDHR style connections from clients. However, some users have experienced stability issues at program boundaries when using Tunarr as an M3U tuner in Jellyfin. This seems to occur when Jellyfin is not transcoding / remuxing the incoming stream and seems related to the following issues: jellyfin/jellyfin-ffmpeg#57 and trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/5419

You can then select "Detect My Devices," and Jellyfin may be able to detect your Tunarr instance and its IP address. If it does not, you can fill in your info manually. Use the following format replacing serverIP with your server's IP address and chosen port (if using Docker): e.g. http://serverIP:8000

Once you have entered your server's URL and port, you will have to add the XMLTV Guide.

1. First select Add Provider.
2. Choose XMLTV.
3. A screen asking for several items and categories will appear - you generally don't have to change these unless you know what you're doing. What we care about is the first "File or URL" textbox.
4. In this textbox, use the following template replacing serverIP with your Tunarr servers IP address: e.g. http://serverIP:8000/api/xmltv.xml.

If you only have one instance of Tunarr running, you can leave the "Enable for all tuner devices" checked.

If you have more than one instance, you can uncheck this and then apply this guide to only the tuners you select.

⚠ You can overwrite tuners' channels if you apply more than one guide with the same channel mappings to all tuners. ⚠

Be careful when assigning if this applies to you!

Select "Save" and Jellyfin should then return you to the Live TV screen and show you it is updating the guide info.

To see if your channels and settings were applied, go back to your main Jellyfin page by selecting the Home icon in the upper left with your server's name.

You should now see a "Live TV" card in your My media section - select it!

From here, you should see all shows that are playing on your channels under the Programs tab, or you can choose to see individual channels or guides from the other tabs.

Play your channel by hovering over the channel icon and selecting the play icon.

Happy watching! 📺