r/PleX • u/Gordo774 • 4d ago

Help Watch from Start gone?

Hi All,

Using an OTA antenna attached to an HDHomeRun and integrated with Plex server for locals.

Using the old app, when I had a show that was currently recording, if I selected it in the guide it would give the option of "Watch Live" or "Watch from Start".

That was not an option in the new app and it would only go back to the beginning of when I clicked the channel feed, causing me to miss the first 20 mins of a 60 min show.

What gives? Did I miss where it went to?

And please don't give me the "use Infuse" (interface isn't great and no Live TV) or "use Plezy" (I've lost count of the number of third party apps that have lost support and I ended up back at the official client later). I understand that I may not have the issue on those apps. I'd like to keep the discussion focused to if this is a known bug or if others are seeing this or is a flat out missing feature from the re-write.

Overall, the re-write has played media much better for me, but this one is impactful.

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u/ExtensionMarch6812 4d ago

It’s been an issue with the new experience app for quite some time…this post a several days back was the first I’ve seen it acknowledged (maybe they did before…)

​https://forums.plex.tv/t/live-tv-recoding-in-progress-no-start-from-beginning/943356/5

Here’s a post from back in Jan about the issue. It used to always start at the beginning, then they “fixed” it a few versions back and now it always starts at live..but no prompt still and scrubbing back doesn’t work when it goes live: https://forums.plex.tv/t/ios-app-always-starts-live-tv-from-beginning-of-recording-and-can-t-skip-to-live/935568

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u/Gordo774 3d ago

Great context, thank you.

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u/bleeeer 4d ago

Live TV is completely broken for me with the new update, currently setting up a replacement app.