Use TVHeadend as source of another TVHeadend

Hi,

Currently i am using TVHeadend with 2 DVB-T receivers and i have to say it works great. There are a lot of devices that can be used with TVHeadend as source. But i am wondering is it also possible to add one TVHeadend as source for another TVHeadend server.

Consider 2 sites running TVHeadend. One site would be able to use the streams from the other site without having to load all streams over the wan. It could also be used to distribute load over more servers.

What do u all think about that concept.

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RE: Use TVHeadend as source of another TVHeadend - Added by Prof Yaffle about 9 years ago

Yes. Look at SAT>IP - you can configure one tvheadend instance (with the tuners) as a SAT>IP server, and then the second one will pick that up and see the muxes you chose to publish, just as if they're on a local tuner.

RE: Use TVHeadend as source of another TVHeadend - Added by Pim Janssen about 9 years ago

Nice thanks for the replay ill have a look at it.

RE: Use TVHeadend as source of another TVHeadend - Added by Stephan Oelze about 9 years ago

My other tvheadend is in different subnet.
is there a way to add ip manually? or is there a generic "how to setup ip server" doc?

RE: Use TVHeadend as source of another TVHeadend - Added by Prof Yaffle about 9 years ago

I believe there's a command-line option you can use to specify the SAT>IP server XML URL.

This thread is a little old, but perhaps still relevant: https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/14189

I don't know how to get the XML, but if you can sniff it out somehow (maybe auto-discover on the same subnet and then move the device(s)?) then that should allow you to force it. Format seems to generally be something like --satip_xml http://your_tuner_IP:8080/description.xml.

You can add that to the command line as you start tvh, or add it to the run config depending on your platform (/etc/defaults/tvheadend on Debian systems).

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