Tvheadend

Stuart Lucarotti wrote:

Hi all,

I wonder if anyone can help me please. I am a complete newbie here and only found this by accident as I would like to use TVH for streaming my Freesat connection to my all my AppleTV boxes. I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction please as I have just installed the app called TvhClient.

Many thanks in advance

Stuart

Welcome!

You don't mention much, but..

• You need a box running the tvheadend server.
• You set-up the server to receive the channels from freesat, you need a supported dvb-s tuner.
• The client, in your case tvhclient connects to the server you setup.

Thank you Mark for coming back to me.

May I ask you the following questions please:

What suggestions do you recommend on how to create a server?
How do you setup the server?
What products do provide a dvb-s tuner?

Many thanks

Stuart

Stuart Lucarotti wrote:

Thank you Mark for coming back to me.

May I ask you the following questions please:

What suggestions do you recommend on how to create a server?

Any device that can run Linux and accept a PCI/E or USB tuner (supported by Linux). You can avoid needing tuners by getting a SAT>IP server. You'd still need another device to run tvheadend on though (to interact with the SAT>IP server).

How do you setup the server?

Install a Linux OS, Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora etc, install tvheadend Download & configure as required.

What products do provide a dvb-s tuner?

There are so many, have a look on Amazon, ebay etc, then search for the name of the tuner and linux in your favourite search engine. For example "My chosen brand DVB-S linux".

Many thanks

Stuart

I recommend you start small.

Get something like a Raspberry Pi, but with proper Gig Ethernet - so you don't run into issues along the line, I've used a Banana Pi & a Technisat Skystar USB in the past without much fuss.

Note, you can use a raspberry pi, but just be aware of the limited USB bus which may cause issues if overloaded (which isn't hard to do).

HTH