Which version to use currently on 3.4

Hi,
I'm new to all this and have just built my self a small htpc and I'm having a couple of teething problems.
I have installed kodibuntu, updated everything and all is good.
It has tv headend built in version 3.4 but my question here is, is that a better versio I could be using, I like the idea of having picons for channels but I can only add urls.
I am also having problems getting kodibuntu to recognize 2 tuner cards. As standard it installs one by default but when I install drivers for the tbs card it then removes my Hauppauge card.
Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

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RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Prof Yaffle about 9 years ago

I'd suggest using the latest stable version, as 3.4 is quite old now. See here:

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/AptRepository

You have a choice of four branches; go for "Tvheadend - Stable branch - official releases" unless you're adventurous enough to try Master.

As for the drivers... welcome to the world of TBS. They tend to use a proprietary driver library that over-writes your existing version with a patched-for-TBS but older version of the same. So, if you have a card that depends on a newer version, you get exactly what you're seeing.

There are open source drivers for TBS that may play more nicely - not sure of the cards they support, though, so you'll need to do some searching and reading.

RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Rob Mccombe about 9 years ago

Hi,
Thanks for your reply that's cleared a few bits up :).
The only problem now is when I add apt repo for the latest stable 4.x version it fails to connect when I apt update.
But if I add apt master unstable it will work and give me version 4.1.917 but I would much prefer a stable version.

Thanks

RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Anders Gustafsson about 9 years ago

FWIW, I still use 4.0.7

RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Prof Yaffle about 9 years ago

I believe 4.0.7 is the current stable - 4.0 is certainly the current major stable, and .7 feels right for minor releases. We'll jump to 4.2 "soonish".

I can't immediately comment on the apt error... it should be there. What's the PPA line you have, just in case there's a problem with a specific build/'ubuntu revision?

RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Dreamcat 4 about 9 years ago

Yeah. Please gist us your apt sources.list (+ and files in the subfolder sources.d/ which include the string 'tvheadend')

e.g.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list > gist
echo "### sources.list.d/" >> gist
grep -R tvh /etc/apt/sources.list.d >> gist

--> paste.ubuntu.com --> give us URL

RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Anders Gustafsson about 9 years ago

FWIW:

dalton@tvburk:~/devel> git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git
Cloning into 'tvheadend'...
remote: Counting objects: 53756, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (113/113), done.
remote: Total 53756 (delta 39), reused 1 (delta 1), pack-reused 53639
Receiving objects: 100% (53756/53756), 31.83 MiB | 2.44 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (39331/39331), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
dalton@tvburk:~/devel> ls
tvheadend
dalton@tvburk:~/devel> cd tvheadend/
dalton@tvburk:~/devel/tvheadend> git checkout tags/v4.0.7
Note: checking out 'tags/v4.0.7'.

(On OpenSuSE)

RE: Which version to use currently on 3.4 - Added by Dreamcat 4 about 9 years ago

There's no other reports at the moment for repo issues.

v4,1 tag > v4.0.7

Sounds like your local apt cache / sources have remembered or still think there is a 4.1 version. That's a problem which has also been experienced by a few others here who were unlucky enough to have installed or seen / cached from a v4.1 tvheadend sources.

http://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable/pool/main/t/tvheadend/

^^ Probably from our old repo here.

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