Next, navigate to Configuration > Users > Access Entries and click on the 'Add' button: The Plex server will be the 'user' and this is part of how we give Digital TV stream access to Plex: In the dialogue box, enter a username and password (make a note of these) and click 'Apply'. Navigate to Configuration > Users > Passwords and click the 'Add' button: Open your Tvheadend server by navigating to the following URL as per our user guide instructions: The first thing we need to do is make some changes in the Raspberry Pi Tvheadend server so that it can talk to your Plex server. You also don't have to put your Plex Server and Tvheadend server on the same Raspberry Pi.

Your Plex server doesn't have to be on a Raspberry Pi, however that's the scenario for this guide.

A basic understanding of Plex and Tvheadend.

Don't worry, you can follow our Raspbian/Kodi step-by-step guide here!

A Raspberry Pi with a TV HAT attached, with a Tvheadend server installed on Raspbian Stretch ( on the same Raspberry Pi as the Plex server).

You can even watch your Plex streams on the same Raspberry Pi as well (we'd advise the latest Raspberry Pi 3B+ for this)īefore we start, we're assuming that you have the following: The best part? You can run everything on a single Raspberry Pi - the TV HAT, the Tvheadend server and the Plex server. Today we're going to show you how to combine that Tvheadend server with your Raspberry Pi Plex server to allow you to access your Digital TV streams via Plex! This means you can access all your local media AND the Digital TV streams from your TV HAT in one place - within Plex!

We created a step-by-step user guide to help you set up the HAT and create a Tvheadend server for streaming Digital TV to devices on your network. Yesterday Raspberry Pi released the new Raspberry Pi TV HAT, a DVB-T2 Digital TV receiver add on for the Raspberry Pi.

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