Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work

I have made repeated attempts to use this software previously with a USB tuner card that I assumed did not work now I am trying with an with an older HD Homerun Dual and having similar results.

After installing the deb on My Raspberry Pi 3 I get my HD Homerun detected as "...-0" and "...-1", but no channels.

during the initial web set up I was taken to a Mux setup page that did not detect anything. I later see the term "Multiplexes" which I assume is used interchangeably with "Mux" (this is so typical of how Open source software is becoming with naming inconsistencies)

Out of curiosity , plugged my old USB tuner card back in to see if I could get it to detect channels but have no idea how with either the HD homerun or the USB card.

I know the HD Homerun works as I configured it with Windows and viewed TV on the Mac. Both the HD Homerun and the USB TV tuner show in the web interface , so I believe they are detected properly. Seems odd that neither device gets any channels on set up, I mean then what good is the initial set up?

Any help appreciated.

Mark

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RE: Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work - Added by Mark de Leon over 2 years ago

Ok I got past many of my issues once I found this: https://docs.tvheadend.org/configure_tvheadend/#4-if-necessary-manually-add-muxes

Why is this so hard to find and not linked to from the Wiki?

The wiki has about 1/4 page of info about it and no link. Strange indeed.

Also is there anything similar for adding an IPTV Stream?

New Problem: Once I changed the recording location, recordings stopped working. The location is valid I can paste it into a terminal and it takes me where it should. I do not want to record videos on the SD card with the Pi OS so I added a USB memory location. I can read and write to the memory as expected. It is formatted for exFAT. Maybe I should try a different format?

RE: Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work - Added by Dave Pickles over 2 years ago

New Problem: Once I changed the recording location, recordings stopped working. The location is valid I can paste it into a terminal and it takes me where it should. I do not want to record videos on the SD card with the Pi OS so I added a USB memory location. I can read and write to the memory as expected. It is formatted for exFAT. Maybe I should try a different format?

TVHeadend runs as user 'hts', so that user needs to be able to write to the media and its mount point.

RE: Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work - Added by Mark de Leon over 2 years ago

exFAT has no user permissions. I also tried ext4 in a folder belonging to hts:hts with the same result.

Mark

RE: Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work - Added by Dave Pickles over 2 years ago

What does TVHeadend report in the log at the time the recording should start?

(I think in PiOS log entries will be in the systemd journal.)

RE: Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work - Added by Hiro Protagonist over 2 years ago

Mark de Leon wrote:

exFAT has no user permissions. I also tried ext4 in a folder belonging to hts:hts with the same result.

None of us are clairvoyant. It might be helpful if you were to show your recording config and 'ls -la' of the path in question.

RE: Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work - Added by Mark de Leon over 2 years ago

I know linux permissions. The permissions were properly set. I triple checked that.

I moved on. I have reinstalled several times and can not record on any install. I believe it to be a bug in the Pi3 deb installer.

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