DvbLink TV Server, v5.5, Part 3 - Favorites, Settings & Monitoring

Let's wrap up looking and the Setup features on the DvbLink TV Server program.

A new feature is the Favorites Channel list. This allows you to tag and group channels into one or more lists for easier navigation in the TV Guide user interface that we'll look at in the next video. These lists also export to other DvbLink clients like IOS and Android, but not to the Kodi PVR Client.

Under Settings, you can assign the ports and manage error logging and backup and restore program settings. You can also chose to forward ports for external access as well as enable user name and password support. If you then open up those port(s) on your home router or gateway, you can access your TV recordings from outside, just like you can with the cable and satellite DVRs.

Monitoring is also a relatively new feature. I allows for monitoring your TV tuner(s) and seeing which are in use and what sort of bandwidth is being used and if any errors are present. I've found this handy when I had problems setting up Kodi PVR clients and found I had tuners that were locked up by crashed clients.

All the above features are accessed off the base port (39876 by default). These admin features seem to only be accessible off the web interface, not via the various clients.

In the next video, we'll look farther into the TV Guide and recording displays, that all happen off the web streaming port (8100 by default). To be continued...

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