Tvheadend

Hi Kevin,

I´m also trying to get the Elgato Netstream 4Sat working, but I do always end up with "Scan Result - FAIL".

TVHeadend 3.9.2827~g477feab~trusty on Ubuntu 14.04

I created a network called "Sat" and every tuner / position points to that.

Netstream was detected by TVH, I did also try to restart the Netstream and TVH but no change.

Perhaps you can see an error in my configuration in the screenshots.

Any help appreciated!

Hi Max

Glad to hear i'm not alone in trying to get this to work.

A couple of thing I've spotted in your screenshots that don't work if I try them in my setup...

1) Take out any IP address bindings you have for your tuners, when I tried using this option it wouldn't work at all.
2) Change your linked input from IPTV to not linked

Other that that our settings are the same (apart from I use 28.2 here and not 19.2).

As mentioned above I can only get TVHeadend to stream for 1 minute though before I have to restart it again. MUX scans are successful as long as I restart TVHeadend and scan each MUX manually one by one leaving 1-2mins between each.

Not sure if you are aware but you can check the status of the Netstream 4Sat by going to http://netstreamip/status
It gives realtime streaming info on connected clients, I have noticed that after failed streams/mux scans TVHeadend doesn't even seem to attempt to make a connection until it is restarted.

If you have any more luck then please let me know

Hey Kevin,

thanks for your quick response. I changed it and it worked - but: I can watch a stream only as you mentioned only for about one minute. After this I have to restart TVH and can watch for a minute again.

The Netstream Status link was new to me and helped a lot - thanx!

Did you manage to get it working longer?

Hey Max

Glad I've managed to help you a bit but I haven't managed to make any progress googling the crap out of it!!

Still have the same problem, was hoping that you might of had more luck than me. At least now we both know it's got to be something to do with TVHeadend since we are both experiencing the same problem.

Please post any progress and I will do the same.

Anyone else have any comments or suggestions?

Hi,

I also have the Netstream 4sat and have the same issue as well.
I tracked it down a little. Tvheadend does communicate with the box just fine. I does issue the rtsp play command and the box does start playing. Tvheadend however seams to be waiting for something and therefore does not continue. The Netstream has a timeout that after 1 minute without receiving any control command from Tvheadend it will expire the session.
The question is what is Tvheadend waiting for. I did a tcpdump and have seen that the 4sat response to the PLAY command seems to send a header attribute content-length: 0

21:57:02.171019 IP 4sat.rtsp > tvh.38568: Flags [P.], seq 172:280, ack 323, win 215, options [nop,nop,TS val 176313 ecr 572975587], length 108
0x0000: 4500 00a0 0f3b 4000 4006 a5fc c0a8 01ef E....;........
0x0010: c0a8 01e1 022a 96a8 317c c027 8874 96d1 .....*..1|.'.t..
0x0020: 8018 00d7 9732 0000 0101 080a 0002 b0b9 .....2..........
0x0030: 2226 e9e3 5254 5350 2f31 2e30 2032 3030 "&..RTSP/1.0.200
0x0040: 204f 4b0d 0a43 5365 713a 320d 0a52 5450 .OK..CSeq:2..RTP
0x0050: 2d49 6e66 6f3a 7572 6c3d 7274 7370 3a2f -Info:url=rtsp:/
0x0060: 2f31 3932 2e31 3638 2e31 2e32 3339 2f73 /192.168.1.239/s
0x0070: 7472 6561 6d3d 383b 0d0a 5365 7373 696f tream=8;..Sessio
0x0080: 6e3a 4637 3845 4232 3430 0d0a 436f 6e74 n:F78EB240..Cont
0x0090: 656e 742d 4c65 6e67 7468 3a30 0d0a 0d0a ent-Length:0....

I currently also have a GSS.box here and there everything wotks fine. This box does not have that attribute set:
22:06:03.038164 IP gssbox.rtsp > tvh.46615: Flags [P.], seq 236:394, ack 282, win 215, options [nop,nop,TS val 4294750251 ecr 573110967], length 158
0x0000: 4500 00d2 8a45 4000 4006 2ad2 c0a8 01dd E....E@.@.*.....
0x0010: c0a8 01e1 022a b617 240f 3b3c 6ea0 14e5 .....*..$.;<n...
0x0020: 8018 00d7 c5ff 0000 0101 080a fffc b02b ...............+
0x0030: 2228 fab7 5254 5350 2f31 2e30 2032 3030 "(..RTSP/1.0.200
0x0040: 204f 4b0d 0a43 5365 713a 2032 0d0a 4461 .OK..CSeq:.2..Da
0x0050: 7465 3a20 5765 642c 204a 756e 2032 3420 te:.Wed,.Jun.24.
0x0060: 3230 3135 2032 303a 3035 3a34 3820 474d 2015.20:05:48.GM
0x0070: 540d 0a53 6573 7369 6f6e 3a20 4539 4331 T..Session:.E9C1
0x0080: 3841 4131 0d0a 5254 502d 496e 666f 3a20 8AA1..RTP-Info:.
0x0090: 7572 6c3d 7274 7370 3a2f 2f31 3932 2e31 url=rtsp://192.1
0x00a0: 3638 2e31 2e32 3231 2f73 7472 6561 6d3d 68.1.221/stream=
0x00b0: 313b 7365 713d 3230 3633 353b 7274 7074 1;seq=20635;rtpt
0x00c0: 696d 653d 3135 3634 3732 3233 3137 0d0a ime=1564722317..
0x00d0: 0d0a

Does anybody have an idea? I did look at the source code, but unfortunately I don't know much about C.

Regards,
Timo

Same issue here Netstream 4SAT. Only about 1 Minute streaming a channel works

Any news how this problem can be solved?

Regards,
Jens

Please see http://w.tvheadend.org/issues/3005

I have now got this to scan but there are some issues with playback