FetcharrFetch TV recordings in Plex, ad free.*

A self-hosted bridge for Australian Fetch TV DVB‑T boxes. It watches the box on your LAN, downloads new episodes of the shows you follow, optionally removes ads, transfers them into your Plex TV library, and pokes Plex to scan.
*optional via comskip

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What it is

Technical deep dive

TV Guide

A 7-day programme guide in the browser: schedule, cancel, and series-record on the box, with pinned favourite channels (no Fetch mobile app needed).

Browse and record

Per-show follow

Pick a Fetch show, fuzzy-match it to a folder under your media root, set a season template, and Fetcharr syncs new episodes on the schedule you choose.

Set it up

Truncation-aware downloads

Refuses to grab a half-recorded show, resumes interrupted downloads with HTTP Range, and holds a short file as partial until the next sync completes it.

The state machine

Plex integration

Refreshes the library section after any sync that downloaded something, with a Refresh Plex now button when you want it sooner.

Set up Plex

Optional ad removal

comskip commercial detection with a detect-only audit mode and keyframe stream-copy cutting (no transcode), keeping an .orig backup of every cut.

How it works

Live operation progress

Downloads, ad scans, and cuts report inline in the Recordings tab; the list polls every 2 seconds while anything is active, then falls back to idle.

The design

Authless LAN service

SQLite-backed, single Docker container, no external runtime dependencies. CSRF, rate limiting, and a strict CSP, built for a trusted home network.

The security model

IMPORTANT

In September 2026 Fetch TV announced a Gen 3 Extended Service Levy: owners of a Mini Gen 3 or Mighty Gen 3 box with no subscription will be charged $29.99 to keep the box working until 31 October 2027, auto-charged to the card on file on 1 November 2026, unless they act by 31 October 2026, and a suspended Mighty Gen 3 account loses the ability to make or view recordings. The alternative Fetch offers is a new box plus a $4.99/month Fetch Access subscription. Fetch's guide and scheduling APIs are cloud-only and the box doesn't use the free over-the-air guide, so a tool bound to Fetch has no future.

The successor to Fetcharr is freetvarr. It's the same app, but recording free-to-air with a HDHomeRun tuner and TVHeadend instead of Fetch TV.

Still on a Fetch box? Use fetchtv to copy your recordings off before 1 November 2026.