Tvheadend

Maybe this fix could be applied to future TVHeadend installer packages!?

This is exactly why I was asking...

Thanks for the confirmation...

Great...
There is also an option "-S" to disable logging to Syslog. Setting this, the checkmark of the syslog option permanently goes away .
Just for information, hibernation IS working also with syslog ON.

Hey
Any chance that you provide the current stable for a Synology DS414 with an armadaxp architecture? At the moment there's only a very old version (3.4.27-6) in your repo.

Best regards

It's available, see...
https://synocommunity.com/package/tvheadend
...but as beta.

Activate beta packages and it should show up...

ahh thank you very much, sorry :-)

mhh okay, v4.2.6 doesn't find my sundtek stick. I used v4.4 which found it without problems, but I had preferred to use a more stable version.
The Sundtek driver package is installed on my Synology.

Yes, known issue. Sundtek wanted to work on a solution, but not sure they did. I followed up with them. Let's see. For the time being there is a manual workaround that you can use:

- Install the new 4.2.x Tvh package, but don't start it yet.
- Then ssh into your NAS as root.
- Change into the "/var/packages/tvheadend/scripts" folder.
- Edit the "start-stop-status" script.
- In line 2 insert the following code:

if [ -e /usr/local/sundtek/opt/lib/libmediaclient.so ]; then
    export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/local/sundtek/opt/lib/libmediaclient.so
fi

This will survive stopping and restarting your TVH package, as well as restarting your NAS. It will not surviver future updates of the TVH package. In that case, you will have to repeat this procedure.

Thank you very much!
works excellent!

@olof
"@Gabriel, m4tt075 uloaded a version for the rtd1296 architecture (DS118, DS218, DS418, DS418j & DS218play) a couple of days ago. I'm currently running it successfully on my DS418j. Look here and have a go at it, https://github.com/m4tt075/spksrc/releases/download/TVH-4.2.5-recrecov/tvheadend_rtd1296-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk."

This link leads to a page that no longer exists. Do yo know wheree I can download a DSx18/RTD1296 version of TVHeadend?

Hi. I installed TVH 4.2.6-13 on my synology DS416J and added my HDHomeRun Connect Duo to it.. Enable the adapter.. configure the network etc.. when doing Force Scan nothing happen. So no service for me. That same adapter on another TVH running on a NUC with LibreELEC is running fine. Am able to force scan on it no problem. They are configured the same on both TVH servers. On LibreELEC I'm running 4.2.3-20.

Any ideas? I want to move the THV Server to the Synology is possible.

-embeleco

Nope, no experience with HDHomeRuns, but if it works on an older 4.2.3 version it should run on 4.2.6 as well. What does the log in the Web-interface say when you run "force scan" comparing both versions? That should at least give some hints...

I was going to downgrade TVH on Synology but haven't done that yet. With debugs enable when running the force scan.. nothing shows up on the log using the web. However any config change will display a log of saving configuration etc.. so the log is working. If I do the same force scan on my libreelec platform... the logs start showing info immediately.

I don't think downgrading would help in this case.
Please use the log within the TVH web-interface itself. When you are logged in, there is a little cog wheel on the low right corner of the window. Click it, and a window with log information should open up. Then, "force scan" again and report back here what you see. And then do the same on LE, so that we can compare...

That is the log I was referring to. Once that window is open I click Force Scan and nothing happens.. nothing gets written to the log. Once I do the same on libreelec.. that log start to scroll with info on it.

Strange. You've probably done that already, but please carefully review all configuration steps again. Are all the adapters enabled, all tuners and all positions too (or whatever the HDHR analogs are)? Is everything "green" and "bold" on that page? Is the network really assigned with the adapter correctly? It is easy to miss something like this. Sometimes you click the right option, but then you don't save the information and it is lost again...

I re-check twice to make sure and all was the same... Currently I have it working the HDHomeRun with the libreelec TVH. If you want I can send you a WebEx invite and you can join a quick session and take a look to the NAS.. if so let me know your email. I'm available.

Sorry, but if everything is configured correctly and you still get no logging information, I wouldn't know what else to do. You could try some basics. Maybe the driver got stuck. In that case, rebooting the NAS might help. Maybe something went wrong with the installation. You could download the relevant package from SynoCommunity manually and try to manually upgrade the package by itself. You could also deinstall the Syno package and reinstall it from scratch. But maybe there are users here with HDHR experience who could step in as well...

Hi,

I'm having a different problem, but hope you can help point me in the right direction.

I am using your version 4.2.3 for Synology DSM 5.2 and am having the craziest problem. Everything works wonderfully except when I try to record something that lasts more than 2 hours. When the recording gets to 2 hours, the tuner signal is lost, but TVH seems to think it's still recording. I've posted the details in a different thread, but this is essentially a summary of what's happening.

I don't think it's the tuner (HDHomerun Prime 3, cable card version) because I can record shows longer than 2 hours with another setup using NextPVR (Windows).

So my question is: Have you ever seem this behavior before, and if so, what do I have to do to get around it?

Thanks!

Never heard this before. But have you tried updating to the latest 4.2.6 maintenance release already (probably backing up first)?

Martin Walter wrote:

Never heard this before. But have you tried updating to the latest 4.2.6 maintenance release already (probably backing up first)?

Thanks for the reply. No, I haven't been able to try 4.2.6 on my Synology box yet because I'll have to upgrade to DSM 6.1 in order to install it. I wanted to shake all the bugs out before doing that.

I do have 4.2.6 running in a Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine and it exhibits the same behavior. This is pointing to a HDHomerun driver setting/problem, since I'm able to get the tuner to perform well with the NextPVR server.

One more question. The debug log issued a "keep-alive" warning before it shut down prematurely. What is it trying to tell me?

Thanks!

Hmh, ok. Really strange. Cannot help you with your second question either, but am afraid you are in the wrong thread. The thread here is only about the specifics of Synology packages for TVH. You are way more likely to receive good responses and help if you open new issues.

New DSM 6.1/6.2 test builds for Tvheadend 4.2.7 are available via post #1. Do not forget to backup your installations before upgrading. Otherwise, as usual, please do report all test results, the good, the bad and the ugly. All feedback will help and be appreciated...

Works on my RS815+ DSM 6.2.1-23824 Update 1 like a charm.
Installation on volume2 without any problems.

Works ok in synology 416play but dont work transcode (only get audio and black screen). I used 4.2.6-11 and transcode works ok. Can you fix it? Thanks for you work

Difficult to judge. I need more details first:
1) The 4.2.6-11 version that used to work, was that the one from here or Synocommunity or another one?
2) Which transcoder have you used / are you trying to use?
3) Do you get any error messages or hint from the TVHeadend log?