Tvheadend

I've posted a couple times about this issue.

Currently, I am using 3 Primes with Tvheadend with a simply patched version of Tvheadend's native HDHomeRun support. It works like this: change the network type of your tuners to ATSC-C, and create an ATSC-C Network. Then, when creating muxes, instead of using the actual frequency that the channel is broadcast on, use the cable/virtual channel number as the mux. Each mux will have only a single service, which corresponds to the stream from that virtual channel. When tuning, my patches version of the Tvhdhomerun adapter will tune the vchannel and handle the stream decryption.

I've used this with both the 4.2 stable branch, and am currently running this patch with 4.3/master.

(I am currently also working on a larger patch-set that adds proper CableCARD/Prime support to Tvheadend, but haven't had much time to work on it recently.)

Hi Robert

Can you share your patch with me? I'm having real trouble with the most recent 4.2.5 and 4.3 builds with my prime .m3u files. All the muxes are created but every single time some services are not created. Even when the service is created it will be ignored in the channel mapping and manually creating the channels causes them not to show up in Kodi.

I'm hoping your "native support" works better. Can you share with me your patch and steps so I can reproduce?

Thanks!

See this thread for the patch and directions: https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/21854

Thanks!

Robert, any interest in an extra pair of hands to help out adding proper support for HDHR Prime to TVHeadend? Like you I don't have huge blocks of time, but I'd be happy to help chip away at it. I do know how to program; however, I'm new to the Tvheadend code base.

Ted

Ted Romer wrote:

Robert, any interest in an extra pair of hands to help out adding proper support for HDHR Prime to TVHeadend? Like you I don't have huge blocks of time, but I'd be happy to help chip away at it. I do know how to program; however, I'm new to the Tvheadend code base.

Ted, the help would be nice, but I won't have anything up for review until at least the end of the week. I'm migrating my main desktop, and need to sort through old hard drives to find the code. I remember doing a bit of a refactor last summer, and can't seem to remember where I stored/moved the code.

Fair enough. If you can think of any starter tasks that would make sense for me to dip my toes in the water, LMK. Or if you end up having to re-do your work and there are chunks that are fairly straightforward to specify, happy to try to take them on.

Ted Romer wrote:

Fair enough. If you can think of any starter tasks that would make sense for me to dip my toes in the water, LMK. Or if you end up having to re-do your work and there are chunks that are fairly straightforward to specify, happy to try to take them on.

I've just started reviewing my code, and while I found some from previous, it's less than I recall. Im refactoring it a bit to make CableCARD support separate from the Prime. Once I've got a skeleton in place (that I won't be too embarrassed to share) I'll push it to a GitHub repo for collaboration. I've chosen to use the 4.2.5 release tag as the basis for the code. Once it seems to work there, then I'll see about ensuring it works with the release/4.2 branch; only after its working with 4.2 would I want to get it functioning with master ... too many moving pieces.

I've put up a new thread with some code that works for me: Virtual Channel tuning for ATSC/CableCARD tuners