Tvheadend

The 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
{{{
#!/sbin/runscript
# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header:

TVH_PIDFILE="/var/run/tvheadend.pid"
TVH_BIN="/opt/tvheadend/bin/tvheadend"
TVH_OPTS="-f -C"

depend() {
need net
}

start() {
ebegin "Starting tvheadend"
start-stop-daemon --start --pidfile ${TVH_PIDFILE} \
--exec ${TVH_BIN} -- ${TVH_OPTS}
eend $?
}

stop() {
ebegin "Stopping tvheadend"
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --pidfile ${TVH_PIDFILE} --signal 2
eend $?
rm -f ${PIDFILE}
}
}}}

now set /etc/init.d/tvheadend as executable

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chmod +x /etc/init.d/tvheadend
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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