Project

General

Profile

Forums » Tutorial and setups »

tvheadend and dvb-t2

Added by Steve R almost 13 years ago

I have just configured and got DVB-T2 working with tvheadend, and Im posting here because I thought people might be interested in this.
I have a TurboSight TBS6280 card, and am located near the Crystal Palace transmitter in London.

tvheadend sees the frontends in the system just fine. Obviously, I had to manually add the mux (only one available) as there are no default configurations available.
I set the frequency (554000), the constellation (QAM256) and the bandwidth (8mhz). The rest of the settings I set to auto. tvheadend immediately saw the 4 channels available.
I think this was a bug, but the Map Channels button remained greyed out, as it was not automatically running the initial mux scan. I found that restarting the tvheadend process triggered the mux scan, and then I was able to trigger the "Map DVB services to channels". The next problem was that tvheadend was not seeing any EPG data for the channels. I installed tv_grab and pulled in the channel data, and then all just worked! It records data and xbmc can view the channels just fine.

Im very impressed. This is a great piece of software :)

Steve.


Replies (3)

RE: tvheadend and dvb-t2 - Added by Hein Rigolo almost 13 years ago

Good to hear it is working. I understood that for your card the driver takes care of the t2 part but externally it just looks like a normal dvb-t tuner. Coulld you not use the default configurations for dvb-t to add the muxes?

Hein

RE: tvheadend and dvb-t2 - Added by Steve R almost 13 years ago

The card is either t or t2.. At present the driver does not support both simultaenously. Other than that, when set to t2, the card shows up just the same as a plain t card.
The problem with the default configurations is that t2 runs in a different frequency space to the t transmissions.
The t2 frequency setting is not in the default config.

Steve.

RE: tvheadend and dvb-t2 - Added by Hein Rigolo almost 13 years ago

In the auto -default list there is an entry for 554000 khz with 8mhz bandwidth ... So that should work i guess.

Hein

    (1-3/3)