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Freetvarr is a self-hosted free-to-air TV recording and library-management service that runs in Docker alongside TVHeadend and a compatible tuner. It provides a seven-day TV guide for scheduling one-off and series recordings, live TV and recording playback in a browser, and pause and rewind for live streams.
After TVHeadend finishes a recording, Freetvarr identifies the programme and files it into series, season, one-off, or movie folders using Plex- and other media-player-compatible filenames such as Show - S01E02 - Title.ts or an air date. It can hardlink or copy recordings into a media library, refresh Plex, synchronize watched and resume states with Plex, remove recordings after Plex confirms the import, and optionally run Comskip to detect or cut advertisements without re-encoding. It also supports connections to Sonarr and Radarr for library management.
Freetvarr uses SQLite and is distributed as a single Docker container with a GPL-3.0-or-later license. It has no login and is intended for a trusted home network rather than internet exposure. TVHeadend handles the tuner and broadcast formats; Freetvarr communicates with its HTTP API and the recordings folder.
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A self-hosted service that turns free-to-air TV you record at home into a tidy Plex-ready library. You pick shows from its TV guide, records from a tuner you own, and it files, renames and refreshes recordings automatically.
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