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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# 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

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#!/sbin/runscript

# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation

# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

# $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 $?

}

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/etc/conf.d/tvheadend

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# /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