Tvheadend

This article describes how to build Tvheadend from source

Make sure you have avahi and subversion installed, these are required to build Tvheadend

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1. emerge -av avahi subversion
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now create the following directories

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mkdir -p /opt/tvheadend/src
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now you need to check out the Tvheadend source code using svn

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svn co svn://svn.lonelycoder.com/hts/trunk/tvheadend /opt/tvheadend/src/
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now you need to prepare the Tvheadend source code

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cd /opt/tvheadend/src
./configure --prefix=/opt/tvheadend
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if all went well you can compile the Tvheadend source code

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make
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If the source is compiled with no errors you can install the compiled source

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make install
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if you want you can also create this init script to start Tvheadend at boot time

/etc/init.d/tvheadend {{{
#!/sbin/runscript

1. Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
2. Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
3. $Header:

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting tvheadend"
start-stop-daemon --start \
--user ${TVHUSER} \
--exec ${TVHBIN} -- -C -f
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping tvheadend"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --name ${TVHNAME} --signal 2
eend $?
}
}}}

/etc/conf.d/tvheadend

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1. /etc/conf.d/tvheadend: config file for /etc/init.d/tvheadend

TVHROOT="/opt/tvheadend"
TVHNAME="tvheadend"
TVHBIN="${TVHROOT}/bin/${TVHNAME}"
TVHUSER="${TVHNAME}"
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now set /etc/init.d/tvheadend as executable

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chmod +x /etc/init.d/tvheadend
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Create the tvheadend and add tvheadend to the group video

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useradd -d /opt/tvheadend/home/ -G tvheadend -s /sbin/nologin -m tvheadend
gpasswd -a tvheadend video
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now you can try to start Tvheadend

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/etc/init.d/tvheadend start
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if this works fine you can also add it to runlevel default so Tvheadend starts automatically

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rc-update add tvheadend default
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now you can go to [http://hostname:9981/ http://hostname:9981/] and start using/configuring Tvheadend