Tvheadend

Hello,

I recently bought an AVM DVB-C network tuner, which is supposed to implement some kind of SAT->IP protocol. After reading some forums, I learned that the protocol is not fully implemented, so the only way to import the streams into tvheadend is to add them as a rtsp source. Unfortunately, I struggle to add the channels. Here is what I tried:

- Installed Version 3.4.28~geb79aee~trusty
- took one rtsp link from the receivers m3u list (watching channels in VLC works with this list)
- try following command:

/usr/bin/avconv -loglevel fatal -i "rtsp://192.168.1.139:554/?freq=626&bw=8&msys=dvbc&mtype=256qam&sr=6900&specinv=0&pids=0,16,17,18,20,107,1201,1202" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=test -metadata service_name=test -f mpegts -tune zerolatency /tmp/test.dvb

The file was spammed with binary data, so I figured it works.

- created /home/stevo/test.sh with following contents:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/avconv -loglevel fatal -i "rtsp://192.168.1.139:554/?freq=626&bw=8&msys=dvbc&mtype=256qam&sr=6900&specinv=0&pids=0,16,17,18,20,107,1201,1202" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -metadata service_provider=test -metadata service_name=test -f mpegts -tune zerolatency pipe:1

and make it executable. Running it gives no output, but also no error, so I figured it works.

- Add it in IPTV with name test and interface "pipe:///home/stevo/test.sh"

- Go to channels, copy link and try to play in VLC

Here VLC asks me for the password but then skips with an error:

Your input can't be opened
VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://192.168.1.102:9981/stream/channelid//1'. Check the log for details.

Here I am stuck as I don't know where to find the log. Anyway, I feel like something is wrong with my setup.

Thank you in advance for help!

Edit: Followup for others looking to use the AVM DVB-C Tuners with tvheadend:

With the current development version it is possible to add the device as a SATIP tuner. Despite a few glitches (channel switches in kodi require first stopping the current channel, scanning muxes fails if multiple muxes are in the list - enable them one by one to allow them to be scanned) it works. Also, the device currently limits to one stream per IP address, so only one tuner can be used. This is a thing AVM needs to fix in their firmware.