Tvheadend¶

Getting Started¶

• Download
• User Guide
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Reporting bugs
• Building Tvheadend

Getting Help¶

If you have any problems with running Tvheadend, then feel free to get in contact. There are a variety of ways to do this:

• IRC is often the best/quickest way to get help (#hts on irc.freenode.net).
• The Forums are a great way of obtaining advice from both developers on other users.
• Information about the development Team

HOWTOs¶

Various instructions on configuring Tvheadend for specific use cases, many provided by users:

• NTSC HOWTO A beginner's guide to making Tvheadend work with analogue NTSC (i.e. Canada)
• HowTo wakeup XBMC/TVHeadend for scheduled recording
• Tvheadend with Ziggo DVB-C How to
• Tvheadend with Telia IPTV

Technical Documentation¶

If you're interested in the technical details of how Tvheadend works, please take a look at this various articles:

• Read the Internal technival overview to get a better understanding of how Tvheadend works internally.
• HTSP documentation
• DVB for Dummies

Future Work¶

We're always looking to improve Tvheadend and add features we think users will find beneficial. Feel free to submit requests to the issue tracker (but please check for existing entries first).

Here are a few of the current thoughts from the development team about things they think could be improved:

• Tvheadend recording management inprovement
• Tvheadend post recording scripts
• Revamp of Tvheadend's DVB configuration tab

Miscellaneous Resources¶

• IRC logs of hts channel
• Previous Releases