Tvheadend

Same issue for me, anyone can help ?

Quick & Easy guide to building Tvheadend on a RPi2 (This also works on any other deb system!).

sudo apt-get install git build-essential debhelper pkg-config fakeroot
git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git build/tvheadend/master
cd build/tvheadend/master
##### If you do not want unstable run the following line #####
git checkout release/4.0
##### If you do not want unstable run the above line #####
AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--enable-hdhomerun_client\ --enable-ffmpeg_static\ --disable-bintray_cache ./Autobuild.sh

• 1 Installs a few dependencies (you'll need to install some more later on).
• 2 Clones the Tvheadend master branch from github & places it in build/tvheadend/master.
• 3 Changes directory to the above path.
• 4 (optional) changes source to release/4.0.
• 5 Runs the Autobuild script that will build a debian package so that you can install it in a nice and neat way.

You can pass more options to AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA just make sure to place an escaped space between each option, e.g.

AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--enable-hdhomerun_client\ --disable-ffmpeg_static ./Autobuild.sh

A list of build options can be found by running (in the source directory).

Note that the Raspberry Pi is not powerful enough to do transcoding via the cpu, disabling ffmpeg during your build will reduce the time needed to build..

./configure --help

The Autobuild.sh script will complain about other missing dependencies you need to install those, e.g.

sudo apt-get install libcurl14-gnutls-dev liburiparser-dev

Run the script again.

Once the build has completed you'll find the built debian package (E.g tvheadend_4.1-368~geeda7d7_armhf.deb) in build/tvheadend.

You can then install it (and the debug package) using.

cd build/tvheadend
sudo dpkg -i tvheadend*.deb

You may need to do the following on some systems with systemd, if the service doesn't start after install.

sudo systemctl disable tvheadend
sudo systemctl enable tvheadend
sudo systemctl start tvheadend

Greetings:

Could you add some suggestions on a simple method of keeping a backup of your current build in case the new one fails?

Thanks!

Neil

Neil Carter wrote:

Greetings:

Could you add some suggestions on a simple method of keeping a backup of your current build in case the new one fails?

Keep the deb package and install it using dpkg -i <package>.deb. This will override the currently installed version.

Warning: There is no guarantee that an older build will work with a newer (migrated) config from a newer build.

Thanks!

Neil

What do I have to change to get the last stable build for Raspbian? 4.0 is release, but quite old, or is master the same as stable build?

Stefan N. wrote:

What do I have to change to get the last stable build for Raspbian? 4.0 is release, but quite old, or is master the same as stable build?

The 4.0 branch is stable with fixes. Release is taken from this branch.
The master branch is unstable 4.1 (dev) that'll eventually be 4.2 release.

I tried this today on my RPi3, but when executing

AUTOBUILD_CONFIGURE_EXTRA=--enable-hdhomerun_client\ --enable-ffmpeg_static\ --disable-bintray_cache ./Autobuild.sh

I only got the following:

dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Nicht erfüllte Bauabhängigkeiten: libavahi-client-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev liburiparser-dev cmake
dpkg-buildpackage: Warnung: Bauabhängigkeiten/-konflikte nicht erfüllt; Abbruch
dpkg-buildpackage: Warnung: (Verwenden Sie -d, um sich darüber hinwegzusetzen.)

What do I have to do?

try:

sudo apt-get install libavahi-client-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev liburiparser-dev cmake

Yes, that works, thx.
I've seen it is also mentioed in the guide at some place, but the instructions seem to be in wrong order so I was not sure about what I actually had to do...