Your Emby Live TV + library, inside the OneTV guide.

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Emby Live TV inside OneTV

The unique feature: every channel from your Emby Live TV tuner (HDHomeRun, NextPVR, Tvheadend…) appears inside OneTV's Live tab alongside your M3U and Xtream sources — same UI, same EPG grid, same multi-player engine. One guide to rule them all.

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API Key sign-in (no password)

Generate an API key in Emby Settings → Advanced → API Keys, copy it once, paste it into OneTV. Ideal for Apple TVs you don't want to type a password on, kids' rooms or vacation homes.

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Username/password if you prefer

Standard `AuthenticateByName` flow is still supported if API keys aren't your style. Credentials live in the iOS Keychain (`AccessibleWhenUnlockedThisDeviceOnly`).

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Multi-server aggregation

Add several Emby servers — home, family, friends. Recently Added, Continue Watching and Search merge into a single rail. Each server keeps its own watch state.

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Bi-directional favorites & watch state

Heart a title in Emby web → it appears in OneTV favorites. Mark watched in OneTV → Emby gets the timeline report. Continue Watching syncs both ways via standard Emby Sessions API.

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Trakt scrobbling via TMDB ID

Watching an Emby movie or episode? OneTV scrobbles it to Trakt by TMDB ID — exactly as it does for Plex and Jellyfin. One Trakt history, four sources.

Setting it up, start to finish

Emby signs clients in with an API key rather than a pairing code, so the one thing to get right is generating the key on the server first.

1. Create the key on the server. In the Emby dashboard, open Advanced → API Keys and create a new key for OneTV Connect. Copy it — it is shown as a long hexadecimal string.
2. Add the server in the app. Settings → Integrations → Emby → Add server.
3. Enter the address and the key. Include the port if the server is not behind a reverse proxy, for example http://192.168.1.20:8096.
4. Pick what you want. Your libraries appear alongside your playlists, and Emby Live TV channels join the same channel list as your M3U and Xtream sources.

The longer walkthrough, including how Live TV channels merge with your playlist channels, is in the Emby on Apple TV guide.

Emby Live TV next to your IPTV channels

This is the thing Emby does that the other two do not. If you already run tuners or an M3U through Emby, those channels do not stay in a separate app: they land in the same channel list as your other sources, under the same guide, played by the same engine.

That matters for anything built on top of the guide. Catch-up and timeshift are navigated through the EPG, and the Sport Centre matches live scores against whatever channel you are watching, no matter which source it came from.

One caveat worth knowing before you plan around it: guide quality still comes from wherever the guide comes from. If Emby's Live TV listings are thin, they will be thin here too — see choosing an EPG source.

When something does not connect

• The API key was rejected. Keys are per-server, and a key copied from a different Emby install will always fail. Regenerate it in the dashboard of the server you are actually pointing at.
• The URL is missing its port. An Emby server that is not behind a reverse proxy answers on a port, and the bare IP will not reach it.
• Remote access is not reachable. Test the same address in a phone browser on mobile data. If it does not answer there, it will not answer from the app either.
• Libraries connect but stay empty. The user the API key belongs to has to have access to those libraries. Check the user's library permissions in the Emby dashboard rather than re-adding the server.

Emby, Plex or Jellyfin inside OneTV Connect?

All three are supported to the same depth. What actually separates them here:

• Emby — the only one of the three with real Live TV built in, so it is the natural pick if your server already handles channels as well as files.
• Plex — the most polished metadata and the widest ecosystem, at the cost of an account and a cloud round trip. Plex integration.
• Jellyfin — free, open source, nothing phoning home, and the easiest to sign in to on a TV thanks to Quick Connect. Jellyfin integration.

They are not mutually exclusive: connect several servers of several kinds and their libraries merge into one Continue Watching, one Recently Added and one search, next to your live channels.

Do I need an Emby Premiere subscription?

No. OneTV uses the public Emby Server API which works on every tier. Premiere-only Emby features (such as DVR, Cinema mode) come from the server side and don't depend on the client.

What is Emby Live TV exactly?

If your Emby server is connected to a tuner (HDHomeRun, USB DVB stick, Tvheadend backend…), it exposes a list of TV channels with EPG. OneTV pulls that list via `/LiveTv/Channels` and `/LiveTv/Programs` and renders the channels alongside your M3U/Xtream sources — one unified Live tab.

How do I create an API key?

In Emby web UI, go to Settings → Advanced → API Keys, click +, name the key (e.g. "OneTV Apple TV"), copy it. Paste it into OneTV when prompted. You can revoke it at any time from the same screen.

Will it scrobble to Trakt?

Yes — when an Emby movie or episode plays in OneTV, the TMDB ID is resolved and a scrobble is sent to Trakt. The same logic handles Plex and Jellyfin: one Trakt history across all your media servers.

Multiple Emby servers?

Yes. Each server is its own source. Libraries aggregate into the same Recently Added / Continue Watching rails, and Live TV channels merge into the same guide.