IPTV DVR & Plex Media Server Setup on ZimaBoard 832

[@troypoint]

Here's what I'm using in this video. 🔴 ZimaBoard 832 - troypoint.com/zima832 🔌 ZimaBoard SATA Y Cable - troypoint.com/zimasata 💾 Vulcan Z 2TB SSD Drive - amzn.to/3WzId6m

[@Clay8668]

Just a far out question Troy....are you and Bodhi from IPTV Wire the same person?

[@troypoint]

Hello, no, not same person.

[@jeromesims3656]

Hey TROYPOINT, can you please make a video on how to get on casaos. Try 100s of times, no success

[@Mark-j3f]

Kudos! This worked like a charm

[@trevorenos2875]

Awesome video. I still have my smb setup with a flash drive in my router (learned that from Troypoint of course). I'm going to try this because I love learning new things like this, and there may come the day that I need it, perhaps sooner than later

[@carlosjohnson9231]

GREAT STUFF Troy!!! Many thanks!!

[@timwindsor03]

Awesome video TROY. Thanks for sharing. Keèp the content coming. Hope you have an incredible night. Much love and RESPECT brother

[@Jaymac0929]

Really Nice Troypoint Thanks for the knowledge.😎

[@scotty2167]

Great video and very informative thanks mate 👍

[@deanwilliams6127]

I have been following Troypoint for about 3 years now and am so thankful for his sharing of his expertise and knowledge for us rookies. I am wanting to setup my first home server and wish to record my iptv. This video does just that. Looking at the Zimaboard 832 and my brief research into this subject I was wondering what advantages, if any, the Zima 832 with 8GB of ram and casaos would have over the Beelink Mini PC, Mini S12 Pro Intel N100(Up to 3.4GHz), 16GB DDR4 500GB SSD at $159 on Amazon. Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated.

[@wayanbarre]

Interested as well!

[@stewartchannon1078]

I have used your great video to set things up as you laid out. I can now view TiviMate recordings in Plex. Now I would like to view Plex recordings in TiviMate using my IPTV Recording folder set up on my SATA drive connected to the Zima board. Unfortunately Plex creates folders to wrap around the actual recording so I can not view the files in TiviMate. Any suggestions or workarounds?

[@sidneyking11]

First time hearing about Tivimate. You mentioned schedule recording. Is this for only TV shows only or Can you record VOD like movies? Also does it record commercials with the TV shows?

[@RogerTaylor-m6s]

I set mine up, same equipment following you video instructions. However, when I try to record through TiviMate with SurfShark VPN connected, it will not record. Disconnect VPN and it records just fine. Is there some setting I need to change to be able to use VPN?

[@kingofwiggle]

I followed all the steps up to 5:00 but my CasaOS is not recognizing my Vulcan Z QLC. Could it be because I got the 4TB version? Does Zimaboard have issues with some SSD? I am using a Mac and access CasaOS using Colima. Is there a format I should reformat the external drive to? It is currently ExFAT. Thanks for the help to whoever sees this.

[@jesusromo9574]

Thank you,awesome stuff

[@icjr2u]

Hey Troy, do you have detailed instructions for installing iptv on Plex? Is it worth using on Plex? Thanks

[@cinemuh]

Can only get the demo page for CasaOS, never see the account setup page

[@THEG12EG]

Casaos os brilliant for a non critical system i really like the ease..

[@tcamaleon]

Hi! Can I use an enterprise HDD instead of SSD? Or is the SSD more recommended?

[@TheCmpstudio]

how can i connect the ZimaBoard directly to a monitor to see if the IP is displayed correctly on the monitor.

[@CYAthere61]

Is purchasing the zimaboard 832 4k version the same as x86 version????

[@carlosdemelo7819]

Thanks Troy

[@jeffwells5860]

I did followed this to the letter but when I reboot my router and modem It still lost the Reserved IP address. I had to go back in and change the IPTV record to IP address. Any thoughts on why this happened?

[@UCpn82OERMJxlYj6aHS-4klQ]

Hi, great video. do you know what is the largest SSD that is combatable with this device? Thank you

[@dharmakin]

Might be an obvious question, but my intention would be to first record IPTV using the zimaboard to the SATA drive and then transfer the files over into another hard drive connected to my PC for archiving. Would I be able to do that straight from casaOS? Or, would I need to unplug the SATA drive from the zimaboard, use another adapter to connect it to my PC directly and then transfer the files over that way? If that's the solution, would unplugging the drive from the zimaboard cause problems with zimaboard recognizing it again as storage when it's plugged back into the device? I've noticed that a shared folder within the drive set up on zimaboard also has a download option. So, would I be able to use that to download the contents on the SATA drive to my PC? It's just that I don't want to set all of this up only to find out that this is a closed loop and I can only ever store and access my IPTV recordings through the zimaboard itself and nothing else. Finding the lost continent of Atlantis would be easier than finding an answer to this question online. So, any insight that anybody can offer would be most appreciated.

[@sleevelessjoejohnson]

@troypoint thanks for the great video, as usual! I have not gone this route yet as I simply don't have the $300 to set it up at the moment. I am "currently" (air quotes because it has worked so poorly, I am not really messing with it at the moment) using the old way to try and record...I have the nvidia shield with tivimate set up to record to my windows pc. I can seem to record most tv shows with no problems. My problems come when trying to dvr sporting events while I am at work. I get home and usually the beginning of the event is there, but it has never recorded the entire game/match. I have never been able to figure out why and am wondering if this is a similar issue that caused you to find this new way of recording and does it effectively eliminate said issue?

[@psfgtech]

Lots of work, but great directions, TY

[@ericjackson8260]

Well done vid as usual. Question: How do I set up a static ip address for zima device on my Fios router?

[@jorgegonzales2182]

I used to stream videos on my network with my Netgear Nighthawk via USB port but I made a jump to eero , and their router or system doesn't come with USB port. Now I can't do that. Any suggestions?

[@BobCollette]

Troy, thanks for the excellent tutorial. I have an older PC running 24/7 as a Plex server (have been running this for years). I would like to use some of the available space on it for IPTV recordings, such as what you showed in the video. I have an IPTV subscription running on an ONN 4K Pro box. I'm using the Sparkle IPTV app rather than Tivimate, however the setup is very similar. The problem I'm running into is the following. I have Surfshark VPN running on the ONN box, and no VPN on the Plex server. With the ONN VPN turned off, everything works great, just like it did in your video. However, when I have the ONN VPN turned on, it can't "see" the Plex server. In your tutorial, did you have the VPN enabled on your ONN box? If so, how did you get around the VPN blocking connections to other devices on the LAN?

[@troypoint]

Hello Bob, I'm glad you pointed this out. After reading your message, I looked and my VPN was on. Due to it being on, it wasn't connecting to my Plex server locally so it was pulling everything through the Internet and streaming it that way. This is why I would always get buffering when playing 4K videos...too much bandwidth. I went into Surfshark VPN Bypass VPN settings and added Plex so VPN is not active for that app. Now when I play 4K videos through Plex, it is coming through the local network with no buffering. So, one way around this is to Bypass VPN. You aren't protected within Plex when doing this but not sure you need to be as you are playing a local file. Hopefully all of t his makes sense and thanks for posting this!

[@dgdigital2659]

​@@troypointVPN while playing local files on Plex is not really necessary Plex server files are encrypted anyway as well as your login information

[@BobCollette]

@@troypoint Troy, thanks for the reply. My problem is not playing back the files via Plex. My problem is the creation of the IPTV recording file. With the VPN active on the ONN box (where the IPTV app is located), the IPTV app (Sparkle, in my case) can't connect to the Plex server to store the resulting file. If I turn off the VPN on the ONN box, then it can connect to the Plex server and save the file. That's why I asked if the VPN was active on your ONN box (where Tivimate is located). If the VPN is active on the ONN box and not on the Plex server (using the bypass function), your setup duplicates mine. Can you still record your IPTV on the Plex server?

[@troypoint]

Thanks for the clarification Bob. I think the problem is that Surfshark needs an option that ignores LAN traffic. I will reach out to them and see if they have this on their roadmap. Seems like something they should definitely have.

[@BobCollette]

@@troypoint Thanks, Troy. That would be great if Surfshark could add that option and make it behave more like the Windows version. With Windows, with Surfshark active, I can still see other network devices.

[@brianchannon7978]

I see that ZimaBoard offers less costly models than the 832 version shown in your video. How can I determine whether these less costly models would meet my needs?

[@troypoint]

I went with the more powerful one so I could play 4K movies and TV shows through Plex. Not sure the others can handle that.

[@tonyskonhovd1521]

Troypoint great post looks like great build for home users. Could JellyFin be used?

[@richardcampbell476]

Great Video! I know this has probably been asked, but will this work with the latest FIrestick 4k Max or only the other devices you mentioned?

[@troypoint]

Yes, this works with all popular Android-based streaming devices and Firesticks are definitely among them.

[@richardcampbell476]

@@troypoint Thanks so much for the response, just ordered, even got a discount on the 832 from Zima! Mainly just want Tivimate recording, but tons of problems setting up latest 4k max SMB to my pc or alternately recording to external flashdrive. Hoping this will solve the issue.

[@miltonfrancois3519]

I followed the instructions, and it worked fine. but i miss place my casaos password. Are there any instructions to recover or reset password?

[@TheCmpstudio]

Do U Need to have a paid subscription with Plex to make this work.

[@rickymendoza7969]

Does this work with EMBY?

[@patquinn8760]

nice video thanks a lot

[@Supremo44]

What you didn't show is how to actually record a video onto the Zimaboard SSD. Can you record videos that are on a streaming service over to the Zima Board? Do the usual HDMI anti-copying restrictions kick in? Can you schedule recording live shows from IPTV services? Sorry if this is redundant, I do not have TV Mate installed so maybe those features are inherent features in that app? A general "how to record" tutorial would be helpful, thanks.

[@troypoint]

Yes, you can record through TiviMate and schedule recordings as well. I can't get into that on KZbin as they will remove the video. You saw where I had to gray out the channels in the video just for this one to fly.

[@Supremo44]

@@troypoint 👍👍

[@TomD-c3u]

Goes anyone know how to point a Formuler Z11 Pro Max to the Zima Board

[@TheCmpstudio]

It worked for two weeks, now i can't get into casaos login. where can I have this ZimaBoard 832 Repaired..

[@troypoint]

Hello, probably something they can walk you through. I highly doubt there is anything wrong with the unit itself. Here is their support contact - [e-mail]

[@johnwatson3521]

Recording IPTV through Tivimate the files record in a .TS format which Plex will not play. Can I change that?

[@johnwatson3521]

I figured it out. I had to use "other Videos" and the recordings showed up. Thanks!

[@SirRome-tg1df]

A lot of work around for this device, just to get it running and using it, there's some open sources android tv boxes can do it easy. Just plug and go with a memory drive. Nice 👍 video and info.

[@marky2498]

Care to name one? This doesn't seem all that hard, but I'm always up for a comparison.

[@cinemuh]

​@@marky2498have any idea why only the demo page is coming up? The create account page doesn't

[@johnclark1038]

Have the same Hardware. Plex install ERROR. "Could not select device driver ""with capabilities: {{ gpu ]]. At wits end.

[@troypoint]

I suggest reaching out to ZimaBoard support.

[@johnclark1038]

@@troypoint Yes. I sent an email to Support on the 20th.

[@jeffreymhardy22]

Links all seem to be dead now. Are there new links ?

[@troypoint]

All links in video notes are working fine.

[@marky2498]

Do you need the paid version of Plex to implement this?

[@marky2498]

Used the IP to connect and all is well.

[@patrickcadette]

😁😁😁👍👍👍

[@alistairmiveld4944]

Could a raspberry pi do the job ?

[@MichaelRoss-d2q]

I got mine from Amazon and can’t update it. What are the commands do I need to get the updates? Thanks

[@troypoint]

My problem was that the time or timezone was incorrect. Once I fixed this, it updated. Here is what I did. use this command to determine what the current timezone is set to: timedatectl If the timezone is not right, send this command which lists the names of the timezones: timedatectl list-timezones I had to change mine to Chicago so I then did the following command: sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Chicago Obviously, you will replace the name of the timezone with the proper name that you saw when you got the list of timezones. Once I did that and went back to settings, it gave me the chance to update.

[@El.Desarrollador]

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[@troypoint]

Thanks but our audio is good enough. We aren't a professional media outlet and never will be.

[@El.Desarrollador]

@@troypoint I got it but please just try. Is an free AI from Adobe and make the audio perfect in minutes. Nothing to do just upload and it will be good to go

[@El.Desarrollador]

Just friendly suggestion. I’m a follower of this channel not with bad intentions

[@deanwilliams6127]

Has anyone tried this setup yet? And if so, how is it working for you?

[@ogkttv9791]

Great video and love your work 💪🏾 this is a great long term option for a media library. Couple of questions, can the Zima be connected to a TP Link VPN switch or dies it have to be connected directly to the router? 2nd, can you provide a private message or email on best ways or options to use to get media to build our library? TIA

[@wilty5]

Can I do this on a Mac?

[@troypoint]

Yes, it will work on anything with a browser as that's what you're doing everything in. Keep in mind that you are connecting the ZimaBoard to an available LAN port on your router.

[@wilty5]

Thanks

[@heathervieira2609]

Yesh but who has $200 to buy this thing though?? Not me that's for sure! That's crazy expensive!🙄

[@ogkttv9791]

Video is for information purposes. If you've been around you know all devices are not for everyone but you at least now have the info to make an informed decision on if the shoe fits. IMO

[@Andy_Panda]

@@ogkttv9791 Well said!

[@Andy_Panda]

@@ogkttv9791 Well said!

[@milostea]

You can buy a storage device like WD MyCloud, add folders, assign a static IP (via router, mandatory) to the device and configure TiViMate for SMB access like he showed. That's been my configuration since 2021 w/o any issues.

[@heathervieira2609]

@@Pahrump Why would I scroll on by when I've been a follower and subscriber of Troypoint for a very long time! 🤔🙄 I get his emails/newsletters also. So here's an idea, take your own advice and scroll on by MY comment! 👍🤪

[@onegoodjoe]

Tivimate wants an absurd amount of money every year to use it. No thanks

[@troypoint]

Hello, that's not true. You can get lifetime account for only $33.99 for 5 devices. It's well worth it. tivimate.com/

[@iamanme5976]

Thanks you for the knowledge...Too deep information...I don't watch and listen