Tvheadend

Ryan J wrote:

Hey all,

I have 2 TVHeadend Servers at home, one gets all my Terrestrial channels from a DVB-T tuner and a few interstate IPTV stations.

The other gets International IPTV channels that require a VPN

If I stay with a single server I will only be able to access either the interstate or international IPTV stations, not both at the same time.

So is it possible to somehow merge the two TVHeadend servers? I have looked at a few TVH clients (Android/Kodi) and they only support one server connection at a time.

Another thought is, my main Server is a Synology NAS box, that has TWO NIC's, can I somehow force a IPTV channel tvheadend to go through a specific NIC?

Import the playlist (IP:port/playlist) from one to the other?

I did think about such a thing,
Going from IPTV -> TVHeadend(1) > TVHeadend(2) -> Player

But wouldn't it degrade the quality of the image by passing it through two servers?

Ryan J wrote:

I did think about such a thing,
Going from IPTV -> TVHeadend(1) > TVHeadend(2) -> Player

But wouldn't it degrade the quality of the image by passing it through two servers?

Only if you're transcoding on both..

How to use two TVHeadEnd backends with Kodi or XBMC
https://freetoairamerica.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/how-to-use-two-tvheadend-backends-with-kodi-or-xbmc/

Thanks for the replies,

I am aware of being able to use two Backends with kodi, i was planning on using AndroidTV but i can always use this method as a fallback.

When i get home at the end of the month i will try setting up another server and passing it through the main server with no transcoding, hopefully there wont be too much lag connecting and swapping between the channels if i ensure its over 1GBps network

Hi,

I think you are trying to do the same thing as me (topic here https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/20555 )

Did you success to connect 2 TVheadend servers?