SAT>IP problem. Not finding SAT > IP hardware

Added by stephen brightwood over 5 years ago

Hi,
I am running a TVheadend server and Client on an ARM playform (Khadas VIM2) under Coreelec. I am using a Telestar TVTWIN as my SAT > IP hardware.
Whenever I have to reboot the Coreelec (after crashes or updates) the TVH server generally fails to find my SAT > IP hardware and this requires me to reboot both the SAT > IP box and the ARM box, sometime multiple times to get it to find my SAT > IP service again. Since crashes are not unknown and I am the only one in the house who knows how to restore the SAT > IP service it can leave other users without Satellite service for many hours if I am out of the house. This is a persistent problem which has existed since I started using SAT > IP.

All of the searches I have done on finding a solution for this problem seem out of date and do not solve the issue for me. I really want to be able to setup a fixed link between TVH and the Telestar TVTwin and avoid the seemingly random autodetection of SAT > IP.

Has anyone else encountered this issue recently and what solution did they arrive at.

Shoog

Replies (2)

RE: SAT>IP problem. Not finding SAT > IP hardware - Added by Martin Walter over 5 years ago

I'd read and work through the options discussed here:
https://tvheadend.org/issues/3998

RE: SAT>IP problem. Not finding SAT > IP hardware - Added by stephen brightwood over 5 years ago

I adapted this information to the specific launch requirements of CE/LE installs.
This is what I did:

Step One:
First thing is to get you TVH server to detect the Digibit at least once, you need this so that you can go into the TVH web interface and extract the xml location on your SAT>IP tuner box.

Goto
TVHServer > Configuration TAB > TV Adapters > SAT > IP folder.

Go to the top level of the SAT > IP folder and select the Read-only Info, scroll down to the Location field and copy its contents.
eg in my case this contains:
http://192.168.1.3:38400/description.xml 1

Step two:
Log into the web interface of the Digibit Twin and select fixed IP address and make certain it matches the IP address that you copied in step one.

Doing this will likely crash TVH and Kodi so you will probably have to reboot your box.

Step Three:
SSH into you Coreelec box

Launch a terminal on your main comp

issue command “ssh [email protected]” replacing the IP address with the IP address of your box

Enter password of “coreelec”

Issue command “cd /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin”

Issue command “nano tvheadend42.start”

After line “chmod a+x $ADDON_DIR/bin/*”
    add the line
    TVH_ARGS_EXTRA=”–satip_xml the location you copied in step one ”
    Take careful note of the fact the there is a double dash infront of satip_xml
    eg in my case
    TVH_ARGS_EXTRA="–satip_xml http://192.168.1.3:38400/description.xml"

Save and close Nano

Issue command “reboot”

That should be it and everytime you reboot it should always find you SAT > IP box.

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