Tvheadend

Maury Markowitz wrote:

I'm trying to do an initial setup of TVH. With TVH running with `-f -C --noacl` when I attempt to log into the admin interface, I am presented with a blank screen. There is no error, the system IS responding to my HTTP, it's simply returning an empty page. Any ideas?

I have tried Safari on Mac and iOS with the same results. I can't test from Windows, that box is not here.

Make sure you have the folders /usr/share/tvheadend or if you're running from source run it from the build.linux directory.. If that fails build with --enable-bundle.

Thanks Mark. I am indeed running from source, because there is no build for my ARM/Odroid platform. I see now my original post in this thread was woefully inadequate.

If I run manually from the build folder, all is well - I can connect and the network clients get my feeds just fine. This, of course, dies when the ssh session ends. So I am trying to hack my way through an upstart script, based on the one from the git repo (which you may have written?).

However, all of my attempts to use upstart have failed. Doing a sudo start tvheadend returns "tvheadend start/running" but nothing is actually running (ps aux). I though it might have something to do with upstart not having access or permissions to the /home/odroid/bld/tvh/build.linux folder where I built, which is why I tried moving it to the /usr space, but with the same results plus the blank-page problem that started this thread.

Perhaps I should return to the original attack and get upstart to run it properly from the build.linux folder - do you have any ideas on how to debug the problems it may be having? Nothing is reported in the console, and there is nothing at all in /var/logs/uptime related to tvh (that I can see).

Maury Markowitz wrote:

Thanks Mark. I am indeed running from source, because there is no build for my ARM/Odroid platform. I see now my original post in this thread was woefully inadequate.

There is an armel unstable build for Debian Jessie, I use it on my NSA310A.

If I run manually from the build folder, all is well - I can connect and the network clients get my feeds just fine. This, of course, dies when the ssh session ends. So I am trying to hack my way through an upstart script, based on the one from the git repo (which you may have written?).

I'm no developer just an enthusiastic user :p

However, all of my attempts to use upstart have failed. Doing a sudo start tvheadend returns "tvheadend start/running" but nothing is actually running (ps aux). I though it might have something to do with upstart not having access or permissions to the /home/odroid/bld/tvh/build.linux folder where I built, which is why I tried moving it to the /usr space, but with the same results plus the blank-page problem that started this thread.

Perhaps I should return to the original attack and get upstart to run it properly from the build.linux folder - do you have any ideas on how to debug the problems it may be having? Nothing is reported in the console, and there is nothing at all in /var/logs/uptime related to tvh (that I can see).

Or you could just build tvheadend with --enable-bundle

If I may be so bold, what exactly does --enable-bundle do? I looked around (in the short time I have, I'm a fresh dad) but there's no apparent documentation on it other than "you can use this". Is there a document anywhere that describes it, or better yet, a description of the file layout in toto?

Maury Markowitz wrote:

If I may be so bold, what exactly does --enable-bundle do? I looked around (in the short time I have, I'm a fresh dad) but there's no apparent documentation on it other than "you can use this". Is there a document anywhere that describes it, or better yet, a description of the file layout in toto?

It bundles the webui into the binary :).

And I'm up, running out of /usr/local/bin!

upstart doesn't seem to be doing its thing though, but I'll put that in another thread.