Tvheadend and Centos 7

Bob Lightfoot

I am attempting to make tvheadend run on my Centos 7 system. The system runs just fine for mythtv but I would like to move/experiment with tvheadend and kodi. I am also somewhat of a purist and will not build tvheadend on the actual hardware, but prefer to install via rpm. So I have cobbled together a spec file and built successfully. The webui comes up and looks to be working, but the cards don't seem to scan correctly. I had used 3.6 on Centos 6 and it worked for this box, but I have not gotten 3.5 or 3.9 to work for Centos 7. I am also pussled that the webui reports this a version 0.0.0~unknown and not 3.5 or 3.9 as I would expect. Input is welcome and appreciated.

System is an HP PAvillion Elite M9040n Media Center with Hauppage HVR 1600 and HVR 1850 tuner cards.

uname -r ==> 3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64

I am attaching the spec files I used for 3.5 and 3.9 tagged branches as well as screenshots of the webui and systemctl output.

Bob Lightfoot

Well I have it all working. I am using Kodi {xbmc-14.0} from rpmfusion rebuilt for centos. xbmc-addons rebuilt from git to match kodi and tvheadened master from git called 4.0 and packaged and it all works. I still need to get the broadcast EPG to work but viewing live tv is working. recording and epg will come.

Bob Lightfoot

Thought I'd let folks know that EPG is now working thanks to mc2xml and tv_grab_file I am using an xml service.

Morbid Angel

it is possible to get the src.rpm from you?
the spec file/src.rpm for kodi on centos7 were nice to :)

Bob Lightfoot

I've attached the spec and the src.rpm. The build system had mythtv already installed so there may be a missing dep or two in the spec/src. No warranty but the resulting rpms worked for me.

Morbid Angel

big thx! can I have the tvheadend src rpm to?

Bob Lightfoot

I've attached the 3.5 src.rpm that built on Centos 6 and was adapted to Centos 7.

The 3.9.src.rpm and 4.0.src.rpm were only built on Centos 7 and the 4.0 is what I am running with Kodi 14.0.

IF you find room to improve please return at least the updated spec file and any patches.

Morbid Angel

look here: http://li.nux.ro/download/nux/tmp/kodi7/

im using these rpm's here successfully...

have an oscam rpm here to...

Bob Lightfoot

THanks Morbid those rpm work good for kodi, but I don't find any hts/tvheadend ones.

I have built my own rpm thus far and shared the procedure here in the Redhat / Centos / Fedora section:

https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Building

Robert Brown

Bob Lightfoot wrote:
> THanks Morbid those rpm work good for kodi, but I don't find any hts/tvheadend ones.
>
> I have built my own rpm thus far and shared the procedure here in the Redhat / Centos / Fedora section:
>

> https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Building

Thanks for this procedure Bob.
On an armv7hl platform I get an error "HEAD is now at 96898a6 transcoding: fix compile error when using libav, fixes #2708"
when I run : git reset --hard origin/master.
And also find no .spec files to copy.

Seems like I have to wait for rpmfusion for FC22 to get libav?

Bob Lightfoot

I haven't built for the armv7hl arch/hdwe as I don't have test hardware.

The instructions will work for i386 / i686 and x8664.

Can you try building using the attached source rpm file and let me know how or if it works?

This is a source rpm from the master/head as of 20150319.

Bob Lightfoot

It took a couple of additional "tweaks" which I need to work back into the spec file, but I did get an arm build to succeed.

Robert Brown - I lack bare metal hdwe to test it. would you care to guinea pig it?

Please note the version string on these is non-standard and I intend to change that in the next run.

I am learning as I do this so appreciate your patience.

Bob Lightfoot

OK with some updates merged today by Jaroslav -- I was able to produce a run of redhat rpm which use the standard versioning that the debian / git files also do.

These rpm are not signed, but the centos one is in use on my hp pavillion elite media center / media server.

If you installed one of the earlier rpm versions this will be a downgrade to yum because of how it is numbered, but in actuality it is an upgrade improvement.

Bob Lightfoot

turns out 3.9.2618 has a significant bug and will not scan for unconfigured services. works fine for an existing configuration, but for a new install not so much. Thankfully jaroslav and company caught this and had a quick fix out. I'm slower getting new redhat builds out. but here is enough for those who know rh to run with.

Robert Brown

Hi Bob
Tried to install tvheadend-3.9.2618-git.e5dc86b.1.fc21.armv7hl.rpm with rpm -Uvh and it failed because of missing dependencies:
libavcodec.so.56
libavformat.so.56
libresample.so.2
libavutil.so.54

libswscale.so.3

So as I suspect I will not get further with this until libav becomes available in rpmfusion for Rawhide (I am using FC22 on armv7hl). I.e. my problem not the rpm's.

Next tried rpm -ivv tvheadend-3.9.20150319-5.fc21.src.rpm
but one of the things I saw was :
install: tvheadend-3.9.20150319-5.fc21.x86_64 has 2 files

tvheadend-3.9.20150319-5.fc21.x86_64 so maybe wrong arch components? but tar xvfz ran without error.

Used ./configure --disable-dvbscan and it grizzled about No package 'libavcodec' found but ok.
Make and make install ran ok without error. But on firing up tvheadend & it came back with
error while loading shared libraries: libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
but it's present at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
so I then added /usr/local/lib to my PATH without success.

Copied this to /usr/lib and then tvh fired up. It ran without an access login so crashed the browser when I clicked on "Configuration".

I think I can copy some profile files to overcome this.

Thanks for the help with this.

Bob Lightfoot

IF memory serves rpmfusion-rawhide should be F22. You might try the rpmfusion-rawhide for libav.

J H

My brother made a guide how to get Oscam and Tvheadend working with CentOS 7. We use Ziggo.

http://tijshuisman.net

Enjoy!