Tvheadend

Joshua Welch wrote:

I upgraded my system from 10.04 to 11.10 (so I could install the transcoding branch, which still wont compile) and now when I try and watch something I get this error in my debug:
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I checked to see if everything was installed correctly and I still have the module listed here /etc/modules and I have both tuners here /etc/dvbhdhomerun. I see the two tuners in tvheadend but I can't use them:
Does anyone know where to go with this?

When upgrading your kernel, I think you need to recompile the dvbhomerun-kernel module since it is kernel specific. ( however, I do not use ubuntu so i am not sure if you upgraded your kernel). I think that even though you see the adapters the module might still need to be recompiled.

Alex.

Alex. _ wrote:

Joshua Welch wrote:

I upgraded my system from 10.04 to 11.10 (so I could install the transcoding branch, which still wont compile) and now when I try and watch something I get this error in my debug:
[...]
I checked to see if everything was installed correctly and I still have the module listed here /etc/modules and I have both tuners here /etc/dvbhdhomerun. I see the two tuners in tvheadend but I can't use them:
Does anyone know where to go with this?

When upgrading your kernel, I think you need to recompile the dvbhomerun-kernel module since it is kernel specific. ( however, I do not use ubuntu so i am not sure if you upgraded your kernel). I think that even though you see the adapters the module might still need to be recompiled.

Alex.

I think you hit the nail on the head:

oneadvent@XBMC:~$  sudo modprobe dvb_hdhomerun
FATAL: Module dvb_hdhomerun not found.

I checked my kernel version:

oneadvent@XBMC:~$  uname -r
3.0.0-15-generic

And went to the site to reinstall them:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dvbhdhomerun/wiki/UbuntuPackages

oneadvent@XBMC:~$  ls /boot/vmlinuz*
/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-29-generic  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-13-generic  /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-15-generic

Any help is appreciated.

If you've already installed the dvbhdhomerun Ubuntu packages (which it sound like you do) then all you have to do to manually rebuild for a new kernel is:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure dvbhdhomerun-dkms

After that, try the modprobe again.

A new kernel should automatically trigger the above - but I have seen fail once for myself too, also on Ubuntu 11.10 actually.

Yea that did it. Only stuck at trying to get it all to start up at the same time. I have to

service dvbhdhomerun-utils start
service tvheadend restart

when I start up.

Joshua Welch wrote:

Yea that did it. Only stuck at trying to get it all to start up at the same time. I have to
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when I start up.

Indeed, you do not want them to all startup at the same time. The numbers in the name of the service indicate the boot priority if I remember correctly ( at least on Debian, so probably on ubuntu?)

However, if dvbhdhomerun doesnt start automatically, it will always be later then tvheadend, making you restart tvheadend.

You can consider adding a startupscript for dvbhdhomerun and make it start first, or create a custom bash script that starts both in the right order with some time in between; Then add that script to startup at boot.

Think I got it by putting (in rc.local):

service dvbhdhomerun-utils start
sleep 60 && service tvheadend restart

Seems to work, slowly.

Joshua Welch wrote:

Think I got it by putting (in rc.local):

[...]

Seems to work, slowly.

That should do the same indeed.

Better is to remove tvheadend from the default runlevel so that it doesn't start initially ( now it starts twice, one start and one restart a minute or so later).
Then change 'tvheadend restart' to 'tvheadend start'

Alex.