Tvheadend

JOAQUIM VIEGAS wrote:

Hello,

I'm using DSM 6.2.4 on a Synology DS620 slim
I have 2 USB TV Tuner dongles (Elegato EyeTV).
None is found by my Tvheadend server.
Obviously, I notived that Synology no more offer, maintain or guarentee TV usb stick usage since DSM 6.
However, I understood that it may be possible to manually install drivers for those kind of hardware.
I must admit that I'm not really fluent in Linux commands but I can follow recommandation in SSH mode.
I would highly appreciate advices about all this.

Thank you in advance for you help.
Joaquim

I created beta packages of LinuxTV which includes various DVB driver support. Your mileage will vary quite much as synology is not distributing their latest kernel source code as such modules compiled for previous kernel may (or not) work out for you. Also I don't know if your DVB specifically are part of the package as I compile the entire LinuxTV set compatible for kernel 4.4. Feel free to open an issue at https://github.com/th0ma7/synology/issues and I may be able to help.

LinuxTV kernel module package are located here:
https://github.com/th0ma7/synology/tree/master/packages/SynoKernel
Documentation here:
https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/wiki/FAQ-SynocliKernel-(usbserial,-linuxtv)

I was close to release them but Synology just take too long into releasing the kernel source, hence there is no way to keep the package aligned with latest upgrades.

Which package is for platform cedarview (DS713+) ? It is version x64 ?

Piotr Kuchciak wrote:

Which package is for platform cedarview (DS713+) ? It is version x64 ?

Answer located here for all models: https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/wiki/Architecture-per-Synology-model

In your case, x64.

I downloaded latest version for DSM 7 and install it but TVHeadend not show me any adapter DVB. In control panel in DSM i see my USB Tuner. But it is not show in TVHeadend. Why ?

Piotr Kuchciak wrote:

I downloaded latest version for DSM 7 and install it but TVHeadend not show me any adapter DVB. In control panel in DSM i see my USB Tuner. But it is not show in TVHeadend. Why ?

Synology removed support for ALL usb DVB tuners part of DSM7. Only tuners that will work out are network/LAN types such as HDhomerun or other that has company backed support (which is really limited, I think Sundtek had some linux support). I do have LinuxTV backport kernel packages including many DVB drivers, but, as Synology is not releasing its kernel source ahead of time it currently is impossible to provide a build compatible for DSM7.

Yes Sundtek drivers work with DSM7 due to no kernel dependency.

But in DSM 7 i see that my tuner is found and see in control panel also sa Hub USB....
But can you give me model tuner DVB-T2 works on Sundtek ?

And if i use Sundtek it will work on Synology ?
https://shop.sundtek.com/DVB-C-T-T2/Sundtek-MediaTV-Pro-III-DVB-C-DVB-T-DVB-T2-FM-Radio-AnalogTV.html

But if Synology remove support USB tuner now TVHeadend is no need... because we can not use usb tuners...

Piotr Kuchciak wrote:

But in DSM 7 i see that my tuner is found and see in control panel also sa Hub USB....
But can you give me model tuner DVB-T2 works on Sundtek ?

And if i use Sundtek it will work on Synology ?
https://shop.sundtek.com/DVB-C-T-T2/Sundtek-MediaTV-Pro-III-DVB-C-DVB-T-DVB-T2-FM-Radio-AnalogTV.html

yes.

But if Synology remove support USB tuner now TVHeadend is no need... because we can not use usb tuners...

they remove in-kernel usb tuner support, our drivers are not kernel drivers.

But it is no possible to install any other package with driver for tuners ? to start working ?

Piotr Kuchciak wrote:

But it is no possible to install any other package with driver for tuners ? to start working ?

we have nothing to do with other tuner driver packages (and leave all of them untouched), they will or will not work just as before.

In this situation in my opinion TVHeadend is no need for synology if tuners not working. When all tuners works (in past) i used TVHeadend and it works perfect.

Piotr Kuchciak wrote:

I downloaded latest version for DSM 7 and install it but TVHeadend not show me any adapter DVB. In control panel in DSM i see my USB Tuner. But it is not show in TVHeadend. Why ?

Did you reboot your DS?
Sometimes this makes the tuners back available in TVH.

For those with sundtek tuners, I can confirm that the driver works with tvheadend with DSM7

After the driver installation a shellscript has to be started on the console to allow the driver to run as root (log in as "admin")

sudo /var/packages/sundtek/scripts/allowroot.sh

This just switches the user "sundtek" to "root" in /var/packages/sundtek/conf/privilege

Afterwards the driver has to be restarted (which will complete the installation).

root is actually only required for the data communication because the driver registers a shared memory segment for the
data transfer.

We will move the DSM6 installer to http://sundtek.de/synology6 (the installer itself will not be updated anymore, the installer just calls a shellscript in the background which always pulls the latest driver anyway)

The new/old Package path for DSM7 is:
http://sundtek.de/synology

Good will be if for other tuner will be availavle driver... Like AverMedia tuner..... In my country sundtek is no available....

Which country would that be?

They're available everywhere, we're doing direct sales since customers usually contact us directly if they need support and there's not much benefit of using resellers so far.

This is my first Package from SynoCommunity. I have just updated to latest DSM7 and instaled TVH.
During setup I could enter a password, but after finishing the setup I cannot access the GUI on Port 9981. It asks for a username! plus the password. What username is it?
I am also confused on the hints during the setup talking about a usergroup 'sc-media'. Do I need to set this up? What are the exact requirements here to do the first login?
Can someone please advise? I am not a Unix-Guru. My plan is to use TVH together with a TRIAX TSS400 in my LAN as a SAT-IP server.

Tvheadend problem after upgrade to to Version 4.3.20211121-31
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Tvheadend has been working correctly for many months.

I've just upgraded Tvheadend to Version 4.3.20211121-31. I kept the original data files.

As dependencies for Tvheadend, Python Python 3.10.1-5 was installed and ffmpeg was upgraded to 4.3.3-39.

After the upgrade Tvheadend starts running, then stops a few seconds later. It refuses to connect to port 9981 while running.

I have uninstalled Tvheadend, Python 3.10 and ffmpeg and reinstalled all, but have not deleted the original Tvheadend data files. The error remains.

Please help!

Thanks!

Alick Wilson wrote:

Tvheadend problem after upgrade to to Version 4.3.20211121-31
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Tvheadend has been working correctly for many months.

I've just upgraded Tvheadend to Version 4.3.20211121-31. I kept the original data files.

As dependencies for Tvheadend, Python Python 3.10.1-5 was installed and ffmpeg was upgraded to 4.3.3-39.

After the upgrade Tvheadend starts running, then stops a few seconds later. It refuses to connect to port 9981 while running.

I have uninstalled Tvheadend, Python 3.10 and ffmpeg and reinstalled all, but have not deleted the original Tvheadend data files. The error remains.

Please help!

Thanks!

Hi Alick, can you please provide the tvheadend.log (located under /var/packages/tvheadend/target/var for DSM6 or /var/packages/tvheadend/var for DSM7) and open-up an issue at https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc

Hi Vincent, thanks for prompt response, much appreciated.

I've opened up an issue on Github.

Log file also below:

/var/packages/tvheadend/var/tvheadend.log

Wed Dec 22 12:12:42 NZDT 2021
Starting tvheadend command tvheadend f -C -u sc-tvheadend -g tvheadend --http_port 9981 --htsp_port 9982 -c /volume1/@appdata/tvh >
2021-12-22 12:12:50.209 [ ERROR]:config: unknown subsystem '""'
2021-12-22 12:12:50.209 [ INFO]:main: Log started
2021-12-22 12:12:50.434 [ INFO]:http: Starting HTTP server 0.0.0.0:9981
2021-12-22 12:12:50.434 [ INFO]:htsp: Starting HTSP server 0.0.0.0:9982
2021-12-22 12:12:50.647 [ INFO]:config: backup: migrating config from 4.3~c6bb43d (running 4.3~b871020)
2021-12-22 12:12:50.647 [ INFO]:config: backup: running, output file /volume1/@appdata/tvheadend/backup/4.3~c6bb43d.tar.bz2
2021-12-22 12:12:50.648 [ INFO]:spawn: Executing "/bin/tar"
2021-12-22 12:13:35.546 [ ERROR]:spawn: /bin/tar: ./#recycle: Cannot open: Permission denied
2021-12-22 12:13:35.939 [ ERROR]:spawn: /bin/tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ INFO]:config: backup: completed
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: command '/bin/tar cjf /volume1/@appdata/tvheadend/backup/4.3~c6bb43d.tar.bz2 --exclude b >
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: executed in directory '/volume1/@appdata/tvheadend'
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: please DON'T report this as an error, you may use --nobackup to skip
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: ... or run the above command in the printed directory
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: ... using the same user/group as for the Tvheadend executable
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: ... to check the reason for the unfinished backup
2021-12-22 12:13:35.955 [ ERROR]:config: backup: fatal error
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Hi Vincent,

Just updated my tvheadend server on my synology DS718+ (DSM 7.0.1-42218 Update 3) and if I start th service it stops in 5 seconds. It has don this for like 10 times, now it runs, but I cannot connect to the server via port 9981 (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED), is there any troubleshooting I can do here?

Hi

I have dsm 7 and since the update to tvh 4.3.20220414-32 no longer starts, the following message always comes up: the parcel service could not be run

I have already uninstalled and repaired it, unfortunately without success.
I hope that someone can help me.

Thomas Heiderer wrote:

Hi

I have dsm 7 and since the update to tvh 4.3.20220414-32 no longer starts, the following message always comes up: the parcel service could not be run

I have already uninstalled and repaired it, unfortunately without success.
I hope that someone can help me.

Read this, and/or update ffmpeg

https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/issues/5222#issuecomment-1107422125

Thank you, but

Unfortunately, ffmpeg v4.4.1-42 is not offered via synopackages, only ffmpeg v4.4.1-41

Thank you for your help, I manuel installed the new version of ffmpeg for my synology and TVH works fine again

As a side issue, how do you backup the TVH settings on this build?