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Cannot get any channels or data through HDHomerun Prime. New to TvHeadend.

Added by nope nope over 8 years ago

Good morning everyone, I just discovered TVHeadend a few days ago, and it looks like it exactly what im after, it even has an official AppleTV app! However I am having some issues getting it all setup.

Here is what I have;
1. TvHeadend 4.0 installed on Synology DS412+ (nearly 8TB of free space)
2. Tuner is a HDHomerun Prime. (I have a cablecard installed and it works perfect through HDHomerun View and the "Channels" app on the AppleTV) I am picking up a tuning adapter today so I can get the prime channels too. (Not HBO, Showtime, etc..When I say prime I mean like Science channel and stuff like that)
3. My Cable provider is BrightHouse Networks in Central Florida.

Heres what I'm hoping to do;
1. Primarily utilize the tvh client app for Apple TV
2. Have an on screen guide
3. Be able to have DVR capabilities, Schedule, recurring, and watch recording from within the app.
4. I would like to be able to access tvheadend from my Roku as well. (if possible)

Here is what I have tried;
1. I installed the HDHomerun drivers from the Synology repo listed on the tvheadend main site.
2. I made sure to enable DTV in Synology Video Station.
3. tvheadend picks up my HDhomerun prime without any problems (seemingly)
4. I have tried running through the first run wizard several times but unfortunately I do not know exactly what to pick.
5. I have tried DVB-C and ATSC-C
6. I have tried every predefined mux in the list (I dont know which one to actually use), and some of them say they found stuff during scanning, but when its done I still have no channels.
7. I tell it to setup all services, and I still have nothing.
8. When all is said and done, and the scan is finished, I still have no EPG, and I dont get any channels what so ever.

I really hope this isnt a duplicate, but I have read the entire setup guide over at http://docs.tvheadend.org/ and I have searched the forums and found nothing. Most of the people I found were using the HDhomerun Connect, or Extend with an Antenna.

Sorry if got a little long winded but I try to give as much detail as possible. I really hope to get this working and tvheadend looks like an awesome solution if I can get it working.


Replies (6)

RE: Cannot get any channels or data through HDHomerun Prime. New to TvHeadend. - Added by nope nope over 8 years ago

Anyone? With as popular as these HDHomerun Prime tuners are, there has to be someone else out there who has set one up before and can help shed some light on what im doing wrong.

RE: Cannot get any channels or data through HDHomerun Prime. New to TvHeadend. - Added by RyRy Online over 8 years ago

I've been researching this setup for months and haven't gotten any assistance in this forum. https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/21153

I was actually very successful with MythTV, but I like TVHeadend much better. I think that since this is being developed in Europe there isn't much support for USA CableCards. I also have an HDHomerun Connect (OTA) and it works great with TVHeadend. I just keep my fingers crossed someone will figure this out since I'm at a loss.

RE: Cannot get any channels or data through HDHomerun Prime. New to TvHeadend. - Added by nope nope over 8 years ago

I feel your pain, Im at a loss myself, I dont know what else I can try. I have at this point gone through every option I can think of.

However I do know that people out there have got it to work, unfortunately every post or comment I have found either provide no details at all on how they got it to work. OR their description is so unbelievably technical that Im not able to follow along.

RE: Cannot get any channels or data through HDHomerun Prime. New to TvHeadend. - Added by nope nope over 8 years ago

Well I really wanted to give TvHeadend a shot, but if it doesnt work, it doesnt work. I went with ServerWMC and and pretty happy so far. Now only if there was a way to add ServerWMC as a tuner in TvHeadend that would be pretty cool. The main thing that drove me to tvheadend was the AppleTV and iOS apps.

If anyone runs across this thread and has any advice im always open to trying tvh again.

RE: Cannot get any channels or data through HDHomerun Prime. New to TvHeadend. - Added by Robert Cameron over 8 years ago

I am currently using 2 Primes with TVH. I am on the 4.1 series for the automatic IPTV network creation. For each Prime, I created an m3u playlist file that references each channel I want to use (I.e., http://[ip_address]:5004/auto/v[channel] ), and included an #EXTINF header with the channel name. After TVH reads the file, each URL is added as a mux; then scan the network for services, and each mux will have one service. You can then create your channels and assign each service to a channel.

It's a kludge, but it works.

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