Tvheadend

There are still issues, even in master, with handling this sort of thing. However its my next task, as I have a few adapter management related tasks that I intend to work on now that I have a new adapter to test some stuff.

So honestly, I'd try switching to unstable, it might be a bit better even now and will get better over the coming weeks (though some config may change slightly and require you do re-do some minor bits, but nothing major).

Personally I switched over just before Xmas, and I'd pretty much been running a 3.4 build since the same time last year (I think I might have added a few key patches in there somewhere). So that should give some idea about how cautious I am about switching my own systems over After all these days all my TV is via TVH and if it doesn't work I get it in the neck big time!

Adam

Thanks for the reply Adam.

I'll give the unstable version a go and see what happens.... what would be the best way to remove the old version (bare in mind I'm a complete Linux noob)?

FYI, I'm an existing SageTV user who's about to move to XBMC and I've tried all the other PVR backends.... TVHeadEnd is by far the best (even with the few niggles).

Please keep up the good work

Thanks

Ben

You don't need to remove the existing installation, just run the normal install (apt-get) commands and it will upgrade the existing package. If you really want to start from scratch (config wise) you can always remove the existing configuration. by default this will be at ~hts/.hts/tvheadend, so something like:

sudo rm -rf ~hts/.hts/tvheadend

But to be honest most of the existing configuration will be completely incompatible and ignored anyway.

Adam

Ok, I'll try it out later tonight and let you know how I get on.

Thanks

Ben

Here's the update:

Tuner = Hauppauge WinTV Nova-TD (Dual tuner)

sudo stop tvheadend
sudo rm -rf ~hts/.hts/tvheadend
sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install tvheadend
sudo start tvheadend

Added network: United Kingdom: uk_Tacolneston
Selected tuner: /dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0
Selected network
Enabled tuner

I then left it alone and let it do its thing... after a while I guess it finished doing the scan and it probably found about 75% of my available channels.

Issues:
25% of channels missing.
Only a few of the found channels have channel numbers.

If I knew where to find the logs within a Linux OS I'd add them as well.

Let me know what else I can do to help.

Thanks

Ben

EDIT

Next issue... after I restart the box I can no longer login to the webui.

I'm trying to start TvHeadend with following the instructions below but can't make it work.

"If you start Tvheadedn with the '--noacl' argument, all Access Control will be removed and you can setup required users via Configuration / Access control tab."

I tried various variations of sudo start tvheadend --noacl

EDIT 2

I got back in now.

/var/log/syslog is where the logs should be, grep for tvheadend.

Which channels are missing? How many muxes do you have for each network (DVB-S/T etc..)

Adam

I've attached the log and some images...

I'm pretty sure that we have 6 muxes but only 4 are actually ever used but TVHeadend appears to find channels for each mux (see screenshot 3).
I normally only receive about 128 channels (using my TV as a benchmark), TVHeadend finds 143... not sure if this matters.

Screenshot 1 shows where it should say the local channel number.
Screenshot 2 shows where it should say the channel name.

It looks like its created two separate lists or channels when in fact those should be combined.... for example channel 1 is actually BBC ONE East.

I'm missing channels like ITV which is local channel 3 and channel 4 which is local channel 4.... however if you look at screenshot 2 you can see local channel 3 and 4 are there but there is no channel name.

If you need me to expand or explain further please let me know.

Thanks

Ben

EDIT

Actually if you look at the service id for 'local channel 1' and BBC ONE EAST using the screenshots they are the same '4167'.

EDIT 2

Out of the channels it did find only 7 would map.

EDIT 3

Uninstalled + changed tuner to a Hauppauge NOVA-T USB Stick (single tuner) + Re-installed unstable branch

All channels found and numbered correctly

Is the original issues due to the tuner being a dual tuner rather than a single as the single works fine?

After leaving it switched off over night again it all started up OK this morning.

EDIT

I have however tried to add a new DVB-S card... set all the settings but it won't scan (all mixes are available).

EDIT 2

Ignore edit 1... I found that I needed to enable it by clicking on the folder that contains the tuner and not the actual tuner like I did for the DVB-T tuner. Perhaps this should be changed so tuner setup is universal between different tuners.

EDIT 3

So just to recap:

DVB-T Single tuner works fine
DVB-S Single tuner works fine
DVB-T Dual tuner appears to have issues with service ids / channel names / local channel numbers duplicating each other