Merge 2 TVheadend servers?

Ryan J

Hey all,

I have 2 TVHeadend Servers at home, one gets all my Terrestrial channels from a DVB-T tuner and a few interstate IPTV stations.

The other gets International IPTV channels that require a VPN

If I stay with a single server I will only be able to access either the interstate or international IPTV stations, not both at the same time.

So is it possible to somehow merge the two TVHeadend servers? I have looked at a few TVH clients (Android/Kodi) and they only support one server connection at a time.

Another thought is, my main Server is a Synology NAS box, that has TWO NIC's, can I somehow force a IPTV channel tvheadend to go through a specific NIC?

mpmc

Ryan J wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I have 2 TVHeadend Servers at home, one gets all my Terrestrial channels from a DVB-T tuner and a few interstate IPTV stations.
>
> The other gets International IPTV channels that require a VPN
>
> If I stay with a single server I will only be able to access either the interstate or international IPTV stations, not both at the same time.
>
> So is it possible to somehow merge the two TVHeadend servers? I have looked at a few TVH clients (Android/Kodi) and they only support one server connection at a time.
>

> Another thought is, my main Server is a Synology NAS box, that has TWO NIC's, can I somehow force a IPTV channel tvheadend to go through a specific NIC?

Import the playlist (IP:port/playlist) from one to the other?

Ryan J

I did think about such a thing,

Going from IPTV -> TVHeadend(1) > TVHeadend(2) -> Player

But wouldn't it degrade the quality of the image by passing it through two servers?

mpmc

Ryan J wrote:
> I did think about such a thing,
> Going from IPTV -> TVHeadend(1) > TVHeadend(2) -> Player
>

>But wouldn't it degrade the quality of the image by passing it through two servers?

Only if you're transcoding on both..

K Shea

How to use two TVHeadEnd backends with Kodi or XBMC
https://freetoairamerica.wordpress.com/2015/10/24/how-to-use-two-tvheadend-backends-with-kodi-or-xbmc/

Ryan J

Thanks for the replies,

I am aware of being able to use two Backends with kodi, i was planning on using AndroidTV but i can always use this method as a fallback.

When i get home at the end of the month i will try setting up another server and passing it through the main server with no transcoding, hopefully there wont be too much lag connecting and swapping between the channels if i ensure its over 1GBps network

Guillaume DC

Hi,

I think you are trying to do the same thing as me (topic here https://tvheadend.org/d/3713-tvheadend-as-tvheadend-client )

Did you success to connect 2 TVheadend servers?