Tvheadend

After a reboot:

grep dvb /var/log/syslog (assuming 'buntu or Debian)

or

dmesg | grep dvb

and/or

dmesg | grep firmware

Let's see if the firmware is loading and the tuner working properly

(You'll have to wait if you want a German-speaker - mein Deutsch ist sehr schlecht...)

Oh I see.
I forgot to tell you my system.
My system is opensuse 12.3 with the newest kde.

journalctl | grep dvb tells me:
Jan 10 08:06:24 server kernel: em28178 #0: dvb set to isoc mode.
Jan 10 08:06:24 server kernel: em28xx: Registered (Em28xx dvb Extension) extension
Jan 10 14:13:03 server kernel: i2c i2c-7: m88ds3103: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-m88ds3103.fw'

dmesg | grep dvb tells:
[22042.929696] i2c i2c-7: m88ds3103: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-m88ds3103.fw'

and dmesg | grep firmware tells:
[22042.929696] i2c i2c-7: m88ds3103: downloading firmware from file 'dvb-demod-m88ds3103.fw'
[22043.205046] i2c i2c-7: m88ds3103: firmware version 3.B

The tuner is working properly. Kaffeine works. But this is not what I want to have.

A German-speaker is not a must, when you can excuse my old schoolenglish.

I don't know that the v4l error is relevant... that sounds like an analog-to-MPEG issue, which won't hurt you if you're looking for DVB signals.

Firmware looks okay.

What version of tvheadend are you running?

And how are you starting it? I wonder if the user as which you're running has access to the tuner (/dev/dvb).

The version of tvheadend is: HTS Tvheadend 3.1.694
I start it only with tvheadend in the konsole (an xterm from KDE).

When I start it with tvheadend -f -u root -g root -d as root in the terminal and want to look at the site, it wnts have a username and a password. But I don't find any configuration, where I can kill the username and password.

3.1.anything is ancient. Last stable release is 3.4/3.5 - latest development branch is 3.9.x. You should move to at least 3.4, if not 3.9 IMO.

Starting it as your normal user from command line won't work unless you're done some extra configuration. You need to check the access rights on your tuners (/dev/dvb/xxxx) and start tvheadend as a member of that group. You can force it to run as a different user/group with the -u and -g flags as you start it.

On a Debian-based system, as an example, the installation created a user - hts - that's a member of the video group. All members of this group have access to the tuners. At boot time (i.e., as root), tvheadend is then started as:

tvheadend -f -u hts -g video

==> fork into a background daemon, running as hts:video. Config is then stored in $HOME/.hts/tvheadend, and the tuners are accessible because of the group membership.

Hi my helper and teacher

I have deinstalled this release of tvheadend and installad the release of packman.
This version is 3.4-1.62

Now I found out, that my satellite mirror is aligned to 23.5° east.
But the right position must be 19.5° east.
Because of that I don't have the sender of RTL.

At first I had klicked on Add DVB Network. Then I took Astra 19.5° est.
After that I had only 1 mux. I was surprised and deleted it.
Then I chose the 23.5° east DVB Network. Now I have 48 muxes. Thats too little.
I think I must turn the mirror to get more muxes on 19.5° east.

But last but not least I have a question:
How can I play the TV with sound on my lapto?
What is the must-have on the server and laptop?

Most people probably use Kodi (XBMC) as the front end. VLC also works well, although I don't remember how you access the channels, I'm afraid (it's some time since I used 3.4).

IIRC, your channel list (once you've discovered muxes and services and mapped them to channels) should have 'play' links that would launch VLC's web client. Alternatively, you can 'copy link...' and then 'open URL...' in VLC - that will also give you the format you need to get to other channels.

Sorry, teacher can't remember beyond that :smile:

EDIT

You could also look at Showtime, as that was where tvheadend came from - a PVR back end for that application. It then kind of escaped...

hi

you wrote "..., although I don't remember how you access the channels"

I take for that the channels panel in the configuration and klick on play on a channel.
When I do need a Frontend, so I think you mean, than I want to install XBMC.
Beacause Showtime is not in my repositories.
I think it's a Server-Frontend? Is it?

In other case showtime works better together with tvheadend.
When it's so, let me know it.

IIRC, clicking on the 'Play...' link should launch the VLC web plugin to allow you to watch a channel. Make sure you have that installed, then.

Showtime is a full front-end client, available from https://www.showtimemediacenter.com/ for Linux (Ubuntu) and the PS3. I don't know if there are other versions, I've never used it - it was developed by the chap who wrote tvheadend originally, although tvh has changed a lot since then.

You could look at mplayer, kaffeine and similar - I think most of those have the ability to lock onto a TV tuner, as does VLC. You'll need to work out the URL syntax, though... I have a memory (I only looked once) that VLC, at least, can load all the channels as a playlist, but I never explored it.

If none of those work, Kodi is by far the easiest to use in my experience, but it might be a bit 'heavy' if you only want to watch TV.

Hi

You wrote: but it might be a bit 'heavy' if you only want to watch TV.

Not only for looking TV. Not on only for one PC.
I want to make it like this sites:
http://www.schoener-fernsehen.com
http://www.save.tv

With the feature, that anybody can look TV and record a show from TV to look it later.
I have a network here (6 PC) with Linux-, Windows- and Mac-PC's and a openSUSE Linux-Server.