Piggyback Feature

[emeaux]

I have a combo of over the air channels and IPTV channels. When I open a connection to a IPTV source and I check the Device Status page I see 1 connection to the IPTV source. If I go to another device and open another stream of the same IPTV channel it opens a second connection to the IPTV source as seen in the Device Status page. Is there a way if a second device tries to watch an active connection to an IPTV source could the second device "piggyback" off the active connection instead of opening a second connect?

[sub]

It doesn’t currently do that because it was easier for me to implement it without this.

I did consider it, but thought with a user having like 20000 IPTV channels, what are the chances of multiple users wanting to watch the same channel at the same time. ie might be a lot of effort for a scenario that is very unlikely.

If it was something like a sports event, you can always schedule a recording and both watch the same recording. (Only single session used for recording)