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Guidance needed: Trunking channels to remote tvh server

Added by Caleb Griggs about 5 years ago

Been searching for a while now and I'm not sure I'm asking the right questions, let me explain.

I have tvh w/ ATSC hdhomerun that I've been using happily for quite some time. I recently had family move in to an apartment nearby in the same broadcast coverage area that does not allow any antennas to be mounted on the patio. The idea is to serve local OTA channels from my server to a tvh instance running on their media server.

While I'm moving forward with OpenVPN to allow remote clients to directly connect, it would be much more optimal to be able to trunk the channels somehow to the remote tvh back end running on their media server. Two big advantages would be allowing them to use their local storage for recordings and have their server transcode for mobile clients they use, taking a huge load off of my hardware, and reducing management overhead for myself.

I've researched for a while now and Sat > IP keeps coming up, unfortunately the information is sparse. Is this the correct direction for such an implementation? If not, what functionality should I be investigating to fit this use case?


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RE: Guidance needed: Trunking channels to remote tvh server - Added by M A Ben Amara about 5 years ago

add a user (your family), create a m3u from your tvh server (replace LAN with your.domain.com), check ports, add this as iptv source to their tvh server, profile pass ...

SatIP would be also possible with VPN, your tvh server would be a SatIP Server ... idk if that would work remote ...
the m3u playlist solution should be quite simple.

do you have enough upstream bw to upstream unencoded to there ?
thats most common the biggest hurdle to take ... Live Broadcasts needs bandwith, u can check on your tvh server while playing how much the stream(s) need.

here its ~ 5 - 30 mbits / each stream, depending on channel and quality (720p - 2160p).

RE: Guidance needed: Trunking channels to remote tvh server - Added by Joe User about 5 years ago

Unfortunately tvheadend satip server/client is not quite working yet with ATSC. But I plan to fix it, albeit very slowly in the little free time I have...

RE: Guidance needed: Trunking channels to remote tvh server - Added by Caleb Griggs about 5 years ago

M A Ben Amara wrote:

the m3u playlist solution should be quite simple.

In that case I certainly hope I'm making it harder than it needs to be! Still sorting through forum posts and trying to get the m3u option up and running, I have both servers locally for now. I'll return here if with more specific questions if I just absolutely cannot figure it out. For now just wanted to say thanks ya'll!

RE: Guidance needed: Trunking channels to remote tvh server - Added by Joe User about 5 years ago

I managed to upgrade to the latest git version on my other tvheadend server and do some tests.
tvheadend setip client -> tvheadend satip server is working for one of my ATSC devices, but not the other. Oddly it is the very old one that works and not the new one. I think it has to do with auto detecting symbol rate, but not sure yet. But you can give it a try since it would probably be a better solution than managing playlists. Also, for me, using UDP across the internet has greatly improved streaming quality. But my servers are quite far apart and TCP may not be an issue for you...

I will try to write up a few hints on setting it up when I get a chance.

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