Tvheadend

This article describes how to build Tvheadend from source

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

<pre>
# emerge -av avahi git
</pre>

now create the following directories

<pre>
mkdir -p /opt/tvheadend/src
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now you need to fetch the Tvheadend source code using git

<pre>
git clone https://github.com/andoma/tvheadend.git /opt/tvheadend/src/
</pre>

now you need to prepare the Tvheadend source code

<pre>
cd /opt/tvheadend/src
./configure --prefix=/opt/tvheadend
</pre>

if all went well you can compile the Tvheadend source code

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

<pre>
make install
</pre>

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

/etc/init.d/tvheadend
<pre>
#!/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

<pre>
# /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

<pre>
chmod +x /etc/init.d/tvheadend
</pre>

Create the tvheadend and add tvheadend to the group video

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

<pre>
/etc/init.d/tvheadend start
</pre>

if this works fine you can also add it to runlevel default so Tvheadend starts automatically

<pre>
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