Tvheadend

In a slightly random way...!

1. Welcome!

2. Linux platform - Ubuntu is good. 12.04 is a good choice because it has long-term support, but any other (recent) version will work. Server or desktop is your choice - probably desktop, as you'll likely need a graphical interface to look after it properly. I'd personally go for Xubuntu because I prefer the interface to regular Ubuntu ... Mint is your other choice, but that can be tricky with repositories sometimes. Xubuntu, then, either 12.04 or current.

3. The 290e is a good stick and works well.

4. Sharing pay channels needs a card reader and/or card server - have a look in other sections of this forum.

5. It starts to download and install but after row ”Get:16” I revieve this - check your spelling, "stabile" is wrong. Linux is also case-sensitive, so 'packages' in your second URL is different from 'Packages', which is what I suspect you need.

These are the commands you need:

curl http://apt.tvheadend.org/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tvheadend

If you've made a mistake in typing,

sudo apt-add-repository -r http://apt.tvheadend.org/stabile

... should remove it (note the assumed "i" in "stab(i)le").

6. You're getting the errors because, I suspect, tvheadend isn't installed and isn't running - hence "unable to connect (because it's not there)"

Thanks a lot for your answer!!

Now it seems much better. One step forward...
After installation I recieved a promt and I had to type my username and password.
Then I recieved a message to access this server from the same computer by type http://localhost:9981/

I tried this from the same computer in Firefox:
http://localhost:9981/
But I recieve unable to connect...

Do I need to start tvheadend in some way before?

After that I tried this command:
sudo service tvheadend restart

But I recieved this answer:
stop: unknow job: tvheadend
start: unknow job: tvheadend

Do you have any suggestion... ;-)

Doesn't sound like it's installed - or not installed properly, anyway.

Can you run the following command and paste the output, please:

sudo apt-cache policy tvheadend

And also:

ls -la /etc/init.d/tvheadend 

Thanks again for your answer!!

You are right, Tvheadend has not been installed.

I supposed that the reason was that I run Ubuntu from USB-stick, therefor I installed Ubuntu at the system instead (Dual boot Ubuntu/Win7).

After that I did everything again and then Tvheadend started up as it should...
Now I have to play around to look what settings I need.

Right now I just have a "noname" USB-receiver (DVB-T) to play with.
In Win7 it found drivers for this reciever that was working, but here it seems not...??
If I look at "Configuration/DVB Inputs/TV Adapters" it is empty.
Should it just work if Tvheadend has driver for this receiver?
Maybe I need to buy ”Hauppauge PCTV NanoStick T2 HD 290e” before I can continue?

If it's a no-name DVB-T receiver, I'd expect the drivers to be in the kernel. However, they may not be...

We can dive into dmesg/syslog to see what's happening, or we can assume... try this:

First, simply restart tvheadend. Sometimes, tvheadend starts before the card has initialised properly, so restarting tvheadend gets the timing right:

sudo service tvheadend restart

If that doesn't work, I'll assume your card isn't starting up properly. Try this:

sudo apt-get linux-firmware-nonfree

and reboot. This installs the binary firmware for a whole load of sticks and cards.

Win7 goes and gets drivers from the Internet; Ubuntu can't quite do the same, partly because it only ships with open source software, so sometimes it needs some help.