Tvheadend

Greetings all,

just wanted to drop a few lines, because tvheadend rules !!

I started playing around with pvr's using MCE until Vista,
then i came across MythTV.
Running ~4 years with MythTV i stumbled upon tvheadend.
Currently i am running tvheadend on my server,
(Supermicro H8SCM-F Mainboard, Opteron 4162 EE, DVB-S TBS 6984 @ Wavefrontier T90)
using only Frontends via Network.
Frontends include 2x Rpi and a IOS Zotac Based Barebone.

Knowing what pain setting up a reliable and easy to manage, yet
waf compatible system can be, tvheadend is by far my favorite!
(not speaking of descambling....amazing!!)

not familiar with tvheadend? here is my setup overview.
setup is done web based, a bit confusing at the beginning,
but it gets quite usable after playing around
Since the last update, it runs a lot faster!! (3.9.383)
first, configure your adapters, assign a network (eg satelite 13.0 Hotbird)
and booom - tvheadend gets every channel on that satelite.

Channel mapping frustrated my at first. you see ALL the channels,
i don't want that?!?! getting used to it, you just map the channels you want
to see in your frontend, yet beeing able to quickly add/remove them.

Getting your channels in order, well i took the time and sorted them
and assigned a channel icon. time consuming - and worth it =)
the channel icons are working on my opelelec frontends, as well as iphone &
android tvhclient.

Using OpenElec as Frontend, the system has a so far good waf, stable and reliable.
channel switching times are awesome (TimeShift on Demand)
Using one main satelite one three tuners, the remaing is on a diseq switch using
4 satellites, also working without lockups and such.

thumbs up for tvheadend, be sure of my donation oh great coders !

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