Tvheadend

h1. Development

If you are intending to do Tvheadend development or simply self-building / testing then this page gives a few useful hints and tips.

h2. Environment

If you intend to build and test tvheadend its recommended that you do this as your own user, it'll make things a lot easier and can help isolate a test build from your main live build.

You will need to give your user account the necessary permissions to access the DVB hardware:

<pre>
sudo usermod -a -G video $(id -nu)
</pre>

If you already have an existing configuration you might consider taking a copy of this to give you a realistic data set without tainting your main config:

<pre>
sudo cp -a ~hts/.hts/tvheadend/ ./test-conf
sudo chown -R $(id -nu):$(id -ng) ./test-conf
</pre>

Enable coredumps (this is best put in shell init script):

<pre>
ulimit -c unlimited
</pre>

You should now be able to run tvheadend as yourself (remember to turn off the main tvheadend service):

<pre>
mkdir -p test-conf
./build.linux/tvheadend -c ./test-conf
</pre>

h2. [[Debugging]]

For more general information about debugging please read this [[Debugging|page]].