Tvheadend

Tvheadend is designed to work with digital tuners that follow the Linux DVB API standards. As far as I can read from the web this is not the case with your ceton infinitv PCI-e card. For example the support for this card in MythTV is also specific for this card. To me it looks like the card is able to create an RTP stream that you might be able to access via the tvheadend iptv option?

other question: why do you try to setup the ceton as a CWC?

a CWC is a client that connects to a piece of software known as a softcam (NewCS, OSCam etc) but they way I read about this tuner, there is no need for that. Because you need to insert a CableCard into the tuner, all the decoding of the encrypted videostreams takes place inside the ceton. Based on your description on how to watch video with mplayer, you get an decrypted and valid mpeg data stream straight from the device. So there is no need for a connection to a softcam so that tvheadend can do the decoding.

Hein

Thank you Hein for pointing me in the right direction. I'm new to the m-cards and when I saw the DES key entry in cwc and also seen that in the cc from comcast so I thought that was how I should set it up. Prior to this I was using a tuning card and OTA whcih worked great. I have entered everything in IPTV, including the port 554 but when I want to watch it using the tvheadend viewer I get a 401 error in the logs. I set port 554 open in the ufw and verified passwords but still getting 401. When I use xbmc tvheadend client I am getting tvheadend HTSP Client Unknown reason (-1). I guess the reason (-1) is the same as the 401 from the built in tvheadend viewer. Thank you for your support.

Port Assignments for Ceton:

Name UDP/TCP Port Range In/Out
RTP UDP 5001-5016 IN
SSDP UDP 1900 IN/OUT
RTSP TCP 554 OUT
UPnP TCP 2869 IN/OUT
WMDRM UDP 5757-5772 OUt

Here is a snippet of the log. Maybe you can tell me where to look.
When I setup the IPTV tab in TVheadend I setup 3 channels and they do show up in XBMC, but return these errors.
htsp: 192.168.1.72 [ XBMC | XBMC Media Center ]: Disconnected
Apr 24 11:29:52 subscription: "192.168.1.72 [ XBMC | XBMC Media Center ]" unsubscribing from "WJXT"
Apr 24 11:30:02 htsp: Got connection from 192.168.1.72
Apr 24 11:30:02 htsp: 192.168.1.72: Welcomed client software: XBMC Media Center
Apr 24 11:30:02 htsp: 192.168.1.72 [ XBMC Media Center ]: Identified as user XBMC
Apr 24 11:30:02 htsp: 192.168.1.72 [ XBMC | XBMC Media Center ]: Privileges raised
Apr 24 11:30:02 IPTV: "iptv_20" cannot find interface 192.168.1.118
Apr 24 11:30:02 IPTV: "iptv_20" cannot find interface 192.168.1.118
Apr 24 11:30:02 subscription: No transponder available for subscription "192.168.1.72 [ XBMC | XBMC Media Center ]" to channel "WTEV"
Apr 24 11:30:04 IPTV: "iptv_20" cannot find interface 192.168.1.118

Note: In order to get the Ceton working I had to setup a Bridge due to the internal IP of the PCIe card being 192.168.200.1 and then I assigned an IP address of 192.168.1.150 to the Ceton interface ctn0. Here is my network/interfaces.
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

allow-hotplug eth0
iface eth0 inet static

allow-hotplug ctn0
iface ctn0 inet dhcp

auto br0
        iface br0 inet static
        address 192.168.1.118
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        network 192.168.1.0
        broadcast 192.168.1.255
        gateway 192.168.1.254
        dns-nameservers 192.168.1.254
        bridge_ports eth0 ctn0
        bridge_fd 0
        bridge_stp off

ifconfig : Changed MAC Addresses

br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
inet addr:192.168.1.118 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:d0ff:fe5c:aa02/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:217739 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72014 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:29416166 (29.4 MB) TX bytes:326652784 (326.6 MB)

ctn0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ### Ceton interface
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:741492 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:49055 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:263945468 (263.9 MB) TX bytes:3330423 (3.3 MB)
Interrupt:16

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:221057 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:812397 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:32986653 (32.9 MB) TX bytes:607600731 (607.6 MB)
Interrupt:41 Base address:0x4000

With this setup I can run the mpeg cmd from terminal used in the earlier post, although it is not using the network portion, which is probably my problem or the iptv setup.

IPTV Setup: Channel 3 WJXT Interface: 192.168.1.118 Group 192.168.1.118, UDP 554

Plus I tried UDP 5001

So close yet so far. I can not find anyone using the ceton tuner, except within xbmc but not using a backend, only tvheadend with a wonderful hack. I haven't tried it yet, I would prefer a backend for recording, timers, growth, etc.

Did you ever get your ceton card to work with TVH? It seems to me that it's just for satellite guys with old school dvb cards