Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable

Added by Christian Schöniger over 3 years ago

Hi,

i'm using a Fritzbox 6660 cable modem with quad DVB-C Tuner + Tvheadend 4.3-1967~geb59284 + Kodi.
This is working almost perfect.

Only almost because i've got the following problem:

When Tvheadend uses one tuner twice, because the 2 services are in the same mux, the stream starts stuttering.
This will get worse, 'till the FB isn't reachable anymore and reboots.

So my question is, if there's a config setting to limit the use of a single tuner and use the next free one instead.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Christian

Replies (7)

RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Jordan van Bergen almost 3 years ago

I have installed Tvheadend on my QNAP NAS but it doesn't find any of the Fritzbox 6660 tv-tuners.
Do you know what I have to do to get the Fritzbox 6660 tuners to show up?

If I have this working we can maybe work together to see if what you say is happening to me as well.

RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Al Bundy almost 3 years ago

@Jordan: maybe the linked page will help you too
https://tvheadend.org/boards/4/topics/29307

AFAIK you don't need dedicated IP addresses for each tuner.

Christian Wattengård: I'm not sure but maybe check "Full mux RX mode supported" setting. And check the logs - maybe it's another issue in your setup.

RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Jordan van Bergen almost 3 years ago

I need to do this:

CONFIGURING TVHEADEND
First open /etc/init.d/tvheadend, find the line reading ARGS="-f" and append something like --satip_xml http://192.168.1.1:49000/satipdesc.xml within the quotes. save the file and restart Tvheadend.

So I need to change the startup parameters to make sure to let TVHeadend look voor DVB-C tuners on http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml

I just can't find out where to change the args= on the qnap startup script.

Anyone knows how to get this in the startup script what's explained above with ARGS="-f --satip_xml http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml"

RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Jordan van Bergen almost 3 years ago

I did this now:

./TVHeadend.sh cmdline

And put this in the first cmdline:

--satip_xml http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml

Saved with ESC
wq!

And restarted TVHeadend on QNAP NAS AppCenter.

Now it sees the DVB-C Tuner!

RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Al Bundy almost 3 years ago

maybe you can find the script with something like

ps fax

RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Christian Schöniger almost 3 years ago

for configuring tvheadend with a Fritzbox 6660 Cable
first make sure Live-TV is enabled on the FB:

Tvheadend should find the device (or is there something else to setup?):

The Adapter and each Tuner is configured like this:
There's no need for dedicated IP addresses for each tuner.

Hopefully this will help.

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RE: Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable - Added by Jordan van Bergen almost 3 years ago

For me it did not show the tuners in TVHeadend. But after doing this from the QNAP NAS command line:

vi ./TVHeadend.sh cmdline

And put this in the first cmdline:

--satip_xml http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml

Saved with ESC
wq!

And restarted TVHeadend on QNAP NAS AppCenter.

Now it sees the DVB-C Tuner!

So this is what was needed for me to be able to use the Tuners in de QNAP TVHeadend NAS.

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