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Live TV won't play or record - tvheadend with hdhomerun

Added by p b almost 4 years ago

Hello - I was on vacation and when I returned, my Rpi3 with OSMC will no longer stream or record any TV. I’m using TVheadend and the tuner is the HDhomerun. After I try to play a channel, after about 20 seconds it gives me a message: htsp client no signal. The HDhomerun works well through the hdhomerun app on my computer, so I am receiving channels using this tuner and it is attached to my network.

I posted this issue originally on another site and after running out of advice, they suggested I post here. There is a good deal of information, including OSMC logs, at the other site which I'm not adding here for brevity. If you prefer that I do copy and paste it here, let me know. However, below is the link to my posts at the other site:
https://discourse.osmc.tv/t/live-tv-wont-play-or-record-tvheadend-with-hdhomerun/87494

Long story short, I've been able to determine the following symptoms of the problem, which was included in my last post at the other site. I'm hoping someone here can advise on what to do. Thanks in advance.

The only time a channel will be able to play is if I play one of three specific channels first. Once I do that, I’m able to play any channel without problem. However, If I don’t play one of the other three channels first, then I get the error message “htsp client no signal” for any other channel I choose to play.

Once I stop playing/streaming any channel for an amount of time that I haven’t determined (could be a couple of hours or more), I have to resort to the same thing (play one of the three channels, then I can play any other channel).

I’m posting a log here where I try to play a channel (other than the three channels), get the error message, and then I play one of the three channels. Hopefully this can show the difference between the two and be of some help.

The three channels that work (hopefully they show up in the log with some helpful details) are:

WMYD-HD
WMYD-AT
WMYD-ES

I have access to 38 stations and these are the only ones that allow me to start watching TV.


Replies (3)

RE: Live TV won't play or record - tvheadend with hdhomerun - Added by p b almost 4 years ago

Another interesting thing I noticed is that once I got the live tv to work, and I was streaming only one channel, the stream status would show up as streaming two channels. I've attached two screenshots. The first shows the stream status with nothing playing. The second shows it with only one channel playing. This is a 2 tuner HDhomerun. Perhaps this can give some input that may lead to it getting fixed?

It's always at a low bandwidth. Also, unless I'm playing a channel at 509Mhz, 509Mhz is the extra channel.

tuner status nothing playing.jpg (64.9 KB) tuner status nothing playing.jpg Tuner status no channel active
tuner status one channel playing.jpg (74.7 KB) tuner status one channel playing.jpg Tuner status one channel active

RE: Live TV won't play or record - tvheadend with hdhomerun - Added by p b almost 4 years ago

Also, stopping the channel from streaming (live tv) does not stop the hdhomerun config gui from showing both tuners still active, even though the status in the tvheadend browser configuration tool shows neither active.

RE: Live TV won't play or record - tvheadend with hdhomerun - Added by p b almost 4 years ago

Another odd item that I cannot seem to change.
In the TV adapters page, for Tuner 0, the linked input is Tuner 1. For Tuner 1, the linked input is Tuner 0. But most importantly both tuners are not available in the linked input as options in the drop down. only one. When i try to change the name to match the linked input, both tuners become linked to the same tuner. not sure if this is important but it’s a change from how i originally set this up.

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