Tvheadend

It is time to update version of TVHeadend, there is lot of new features with will
make experience better.

Hi saen acro,

thanks for your answer. Some weeks I updated to 3.9 or something.
It seemed to me that I had to do all the scanning and reordering of
the channels. And that's a hard job. So I downgraded again.

Furthermore, normally on the server side I prefer to use stable versions.
And according to the repos of tvheadend this is still 3.4.28.
So is the behaviour of the new client intended or a bug.

Best Regards

digi_joe

I agree, my OpenELEC tvheadend add-on v6.0.1 suddenly fails to work with the Tvheadend v3.4.27-6 on my Synology.

Due to this version check we are forced out of watching TV, until a compatible Tvheadend version is available on Synology.

There is no outlook for that at this time.

My issue is a pvr.hts v2.1.9 version check in OpenELEC.

https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts/commit/0dfb3856b4e5cbfd83d04e96f3d04691149e98bf

We've made negge (the main addon author) aware, so he's onto it to get something sorted before Isengard is released. Thanks for raising the problem before we had a lot of upset Kodi users...

It's true that 3.4 is still the official stable version, but we have pre-release/testing builds of the new version available as well. Yes, there's some setup migration, but I'd recommend having a look anyway.

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/AptRepository

A fix for this has been put in place and will be available from the next nightly build of Isengard. If you're only using official or semi-stable releases, you'll need to rewind to an earlier beta or wait for the next one/the release candidate.

I wouldn't mind moving to a newer stable release (or even testing release candidates as I do with OpenELEC/Kodi), but our setup is dependent on the availability of Tvheadend on Synology and as such I (and probably other home-users) are at the mercy of the provider of those (add-on) Synology packages.

(It would be nice if Tvheadend would be a default offering from Synology though !)

Thanks for your help !

Dag Wieers wrote:

(It would be nice if Tvheadend would be a default offering from Synology though !)

Well you can find recent activity in Github Issues with this search parameters:

https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/issues?q=tvheadend+sort%3Aupdated-desc

Recently there was 1 guy trying to compile a newer tvheadend pkg on synology. Not sure if he finished it:

https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/pull/931#issuecomment-109563225

Another way you can try is to install tvheadend in a docker container. Only if DSM 5.2+ and intel x64 CPU. Like my one:

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/dreamcat4/tvheadend/

Just a feedback from me. I just tested with today's nightly . The issue is fixed. Thanks.

Just another question.
Is there a simple work around for also viewing timers and recordings in the above combination of tvheadend and kodi. This feature seems to be broken since some month ago.

Best Regards

digi_joe

Yes, I noticed some upgrades make OpenELEC/Kodi loose the historical recordings, but new recordings are listed.

My solution was to add the recordings folder as another video library to Kodi, however it does not list the metadata properly.
What would help is if Kodi would read the metadata from recordings (because Tvheadend does correctly add metadata to recordings).

Another solution would be a metadata scraper that updates the Kodi/pvr.hts recordings database...

Dreamcat 4 wrote:

Dag Wieers wrote:
Another way you can try is to install tvheadend in a docker container. Only if DSM 5.2+ and intel x64 CPU. Like my one:

https://registry.hub.docker.com/u/dreamcat4/tvheadend/

That is a very good suggestion !
I didn't think of that, my mind is still pre-DSM 5.2 :-)

Can docker images access the DVB-USB hardware ?
Even better would be if docker images could ship extra DVB drivers, but that's technically impossible I guess.