Tvheadend

its probably something i havent done

here my config as well - and done what was suggested in the posts above

use URI::Escape;
use List::Util qw(first);

my $data = "4097";
my $region = "10";

my $tag_channels = 1;
my $tvh_user = "geoff";
my $tvh_pass = "*****";
my $tvh_ip = "localhost";
my $tvh_proto = "http";
my $tvh_port = "9981";
my $tvh_tag = "AutoChan";
my $icons_enabled = 1;

tried everything... no luck spend a few hours on it... everything else is working ok on it - so don't really want to start again.

perl ./autobouquets.pl
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

any other ideas or advise?

Hey Geoff,

It sounds like something is broken when trying to access the tvheadend API. What happens if you go to the following URL?

http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@TVH_IP:9981/api/channeltag/list?enum=true

Obviously replace USERNAME, PASSWORD and TVH_IP with relevant values.

Also, do you see this error immediately after running the script or is there a short pause?

i download a file straight away, and in that file is

{"entries": [{"key": "3985a1ac8fc061c8674efa654151b443","val": "TV channels"},{"key": "b3a195dc16259139ccc597461b7cd3af","val": "AutoChan"},{"key": "5cc8791947b2f21e06dc703cb7322b81","val": "SDTV"},{"key": "1794f9f4f6525b39eef79e861b0db5ac","val": "HDTV"},{"key": "a832692d815afc9aac55aab9d77d4f54","val": "ARQIVA"},{"key": "a75bb843ea884768d69671398e21e45c","val": "Radio"},{"key": "bade3384dafb31fb6ef20d7490426dd1","val": "XBMC"}]}

AutoChan - was one i manually created to help the script along a bit.

Thanks Geoff, that rules out quite a bit at least!

I've updated the script to give a bit more verbose output. If you can re-download the script and let me know what gets output?

thank you - will download now.

root@satserver:/home/hts/.hts/tvheadend# perl ./autobouquets.pl
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

Sorry for the late response Geoff. Can you run
sudo dvbsnoop -nph -n 500 0x11
for me?
Does it output anything? No need to paste here if it does, if its not working you won't see anything.

Hi no need to apologise understand its a hobby - yes reports pages of information.

The script no longer works with newer versions of Tvheadend btw.

thats a shame it was one of the best scripts!

Hi guys,

I wanted to develop things a bit further but in light of it not working at all with the latest version of TVH I'll upload the latest version of my script "as is".

It now has the feature to be given an SD bouquet and an associated HD bouquet. Each channel in the HD bouquet will be tested and only overwrite an SD channel if it can be accessed.

To do this set $data_sd and $region_sd to your SD bouquet values and $data_hd and $region_hd to the corresponding HD bouquet.

E.g. I'm in East Scotland so my settings are:

my $data_sd   = "4098";
my $region_sd = "37";

my $data_hd   = "4102";
my $region_hd = "37";

Very experimental and very poorly implemented at the moment so if you don't understand my poor description of this feature, aren't interested or it doesn't work (very likely!) just leave $data_hd and $region_hd blank and set $data_sd and $region_sd to whatever you need.

Let me know how things go.

PS Geoff, sorry for not getting back to you. Maybe give this version a go? Let me know the output.

thanks will try tomorrow. cheers

hts@satserver:~/.hts/tvheadend$ perl ./autobouquets.pl
Global symbol "@sid_adds" requires explicit package name at ./autobouquets.pl line 133.
Execution of ./autobouquets.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Try again Geoff (re-download script)

sorry...

hts@satserver:~/.hts/tvheadend$ perl ./autobouquets.pl
Started
Get Channel Tags...
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

and again? obvs remove password if sensitive!

Started
http://geoff:[email protected]:9981
Get Channel Tags...
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

and does that URL work if you paste it in a browser?

Have you tried using the actual IP address of your TVH machine e.g. 192.168.1.2

yes

hts@satserver:~/.hts/tvheadend$ perl ./autobouquets.pl
Started
http://geoff:[email protected]:9981
Get Channel Tags...
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /usr/share/perl5/JSON.pm line 171.

and using url on firefox works. see attached however... there seems a 2nd login now with latest and click on the login at top says you are about to login using the username geoff click ok and logs in.

So it looks like an authentication issue with TVH. I've never seen the "no verified access" message before. Mine always says "Logged in as jon"..

My script fails at a very early point where it tries to speak to TVH. The error you're getting happens to me when it can't access TVH, usually due to bad config although I'm sure you've checked all that!

Just for testing, could you try temporarily changing your password to something really easy with no special characters e.g. abc123, then try again.

I'm having a similar problem. I get the following output.

% perl ~/bin/autobouquets.pl
Started
http://auto:bouquet@localhost:9981
Get Channel Tags...
malformed JSON string, neither array, object, number, string or atom, at character offset 0 (before "(end of string)") at /home/aitch/bin/autobouquets.pl line 317.


Could anyone tell me where I can find the region numbers from
To enter into the perl script
Many thanks

....uhhhhh the OP...maybe...!!!?