Tvheadend

Not easily. The way the HDHR client works you need to be on the same subnet for the broadcast/discover packets sent to work. You may be able to do this with a static route between subnets, but I haven't tried this approach myself.

To test it, add the static routes to your interface's routing table and run hdhomerun_config discover on your Tvheadend machine and see if it sees the devices. If so, then it'll work.

Thank you for your reply!

Ah I see, I was hoping Tvheadend would communicate with the HDHomeRun through some HTTP API or something so that just opening some ports in my router would suffice. But as I now understand it, in order to get my proposed setup to work, I would probably have to setup a VPN and route broadcast packets over the VPN. I have no idea how to configure that and I would need to run a separate server for that as well as my router sure won't support that. In that case I'm probably better off with running the Tvheadend server locally as that will probably save me a lot of headaches.

I might look into running Tvheadend or a Raspberri Pi (or similar) locally if it can handle that. I will read a bit about that and will probably return with some questions regarding that but I'll open a new thread for that as those questions will be different from what I've asked here.

I don't believe the DVB models of the HDHR devices allow for direct HTTP streaming, only the US CableCARD Prime does.

You can run Tvheadend locally, and export the server over Sat>IP; then run Tvheadend on your hosted server, using your local Tvheadend Sat>IP instance as the input. Realistically, though, that's a lot of bandwidth going back and forth, and I doubt with the latency you'd be happy with the result.

Robert Cameron wrote:

You can run Tvheadend locally, and export the server over Sat>IP; then run Tvheadend on your hosted server, using your local Tvheadend Sat>IP instance as the input. Realistically, though, that's a lot of bandwidth going back and forth, and I doubt with the latency you'd be happy with the result.

That could be very interesting if it's possible to do the descrambling at the remote location too. Then I could run a very small low powered Tvheadend server at home (Raspberry Pi or something) and have the server at the remote location do all the actual work (descrambling with softcam and optionally transcoding). Latency between home and remote location is about 14ms so that's only marginally worse than a home network setup I guess (but I'm no network or streaming expert) and bandwidth is abundant as well.

I'm afraid I can't really offer additional help with regards to that. However, if you do get it working, a report back with perhaps some info in the steps you took to get it working, would be appreciated and might help others down the line.