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Need help with Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 on Raspberry Pi for US cable TV
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I've been following a tutorial in the Linux Format magazine to setup my Raspberry Pi to record TV. I have a Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 plugged into my pi. I did not specifically install any drivers or firmware for the 950 on the pi. I found entries in /var/log/syslog which indicate that it is detecting it. I'm using the 2014-01-07 Raspbian distro.
I built the latest stable release of tvheadend (v3.4patch1) from source and after install I ran tvheadend -C -d I connected with my browser from my laptop to the configuration app.
In the web app under Configuration >> DVB Inputs >> TV Adapters the drop-down list has a single entry, "LG Electronics LGDT3303 VSB/QAM Frontend". I picked this, checked Enable, and clicked Save. I was surprised the name didn't quite match but figured maybe the lower level hw has a different name?
My question now is, how do I setup the muxes? I'm in the US and am using wired cable TV. The magazine suggests a site for the UK to lookup the info and manually add it. Is there something like that for the US? Anyone get this working in the US with cable TV? There are some US entries in the "Add DVB Network by Location" but those don't seem to produce any results for me.
I ordered the software CD from Hauppage for the device. When I got it, I installed the software on my Windows 8 machine. I selected "Analog Cable" and it scanned for channels. It found my channels (only around 12 of them) and I was then able to watch TV on the computer.
So I now know that the device does work with my cable TV. Next question is how do I configure tvheadend? The setup in tvheadend appears quite a bit more complicated than just telling it I have analog cable TV and telling it to scan for available channels.
Can anyone help in getting tvheadend setup for my situation?
Need help with Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 on Raspberry Pi for US cable TV