As a way of giving something back to the community, I have set up a bintray repository for some Raspberry Pi / armhf builds of TVHeadend. I am by no means promising to keep this bang up to date, but I'll add releases as and when I can.

Check the changelog below for details about what packages are in this repository - the aim is to maintain a stable and unstable branch.

I have implemented a BuildBot script on the Pi that is building these files. The purpose of the BuildBot is to check out the new code, compile it into a redistributable Debian (.deb) archive and automatically publish it to Bintray. This is an ALPHA-like trial at the moment as I need to wait for a change to the 4.1 branch to check that it works end-to-end. The benefit of this is that new builds will be uploaded to Bintray within 24 hours of the code being added to Github - I'll review these timings later providing the script works as expected, with the aim of doing 4 build cycles per branch (4 stable and 4 unstable) per day - that will cut the 24 hour wait down to a maximum of 8 hours delay between Github and my Bintray repository.

To set up my this repository;

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

add the following to the sources.list file

deb https://dl.bintray.com/djbenson/deb wheezy stable (for the stable wheezy branch) deb https://dl.bintray.com/djbenson/deb wheezy unstable (for the unstable/nightly wheezy branch)

NOTE: Remember, even if you are running Jessie, you MUST add the wheezy repository to get my builds. I will move to Jessie at some point but for now wheezy builds work fine on Jessie and cover the two most used Raspbery Pi operating systems in use at the moment.

Save and exit (CTRL+O then CTRL+X)

The following may be necessary on a clean Debian install (thanks to Mike Somerville for this tip)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61

This adds the keys required to download software from bintray without receiving signature errors.

$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install tvheadend

If you get an error like this;


E: The method driver /usr/lib/apt/methods/https could not be found.
N: Is the package apt-transport-https installed?

Then run

$ sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

Then run the above commands again.

You may get a package verification error - until I work out how to fix that, simply enter "Y" at the prompt.

Some caveats/useful information:
# This repository supports only armhf builds at the moment
# Regardless of whether you are running Wheezy or Jessie, you MUST enable only the wheezy branch to receive my builds
# Both stable (4.0) and unstable/git-master (4.1) branches are supported
# Binaries are now compiled on native Raspberry Pi hardware (Pi 1 B+) using Raspbian Wheezy, cross-compilation caused me too many headaches

# Due to a bug in the GCC compiler, ffmpeg_static is disabled in my builds. This shouldn't cause many issues as the Pi (even version 3) is low-powered and not really capable of reliable transcoding duties. I think (but cannot confirm) that TVHeadend will use ffmpeg if it's installed on your system despite it not being compiled into the TVHeadend binary (if somebody can confirm this I'd appreciate it)


--prefix=/usr --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --disable-silent-rules --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/tvheadend --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking --disable-ffmpeg_static --enable-hdhomerun_static --enable-dvbcsa --enable-bundle

Changelog (As of 2016-11-24, builds are added to Bintray automatically so this changelog will no longer be updated with build-specific information)


2016-11-24 Enabled automated build/deployment script which will take care of adding new builds to Bintray
2016-11-23 Switched to native Raspbery Pi hardware (Pi v1 B+) instead of cross-compiling
2016-11-22 armhf build 4.1-2331-gf2371cf added to the repository
           armhf build 4.1-2330~g3a113b6 added to the repository
2016-11-18 armhf build 4.0.9-13~g64fec81 added to the repository
           armhf build 4.1-2328~gca5f094 added to the repository (see note on page 2!)
2016-09-07 armhf build 4.0.9-12~ge5400e2 added to the repository
2016-09-06 only wheezy builds will be published going forward
2016-09-06 armhf build 4.1-2236~g817f67e added to the repository
2016-07-21 armhf build 4.1-2141~g01c26fc~jessie added to repository
2016-07-19 armhf build 4.1-2141~g01c26fc added to repository
2016-07-01 armhf build 4.1-2140~gf34fac1 added to repository
2016-06-30 armhf build 4.1-2135~g631b6b5 added to repository
           armhf build 4.0.9-5~g4749320 added to repository