Tvheadend + Fritzbox 6660 Cable

Christian Schöniger

Hi,

i'm using a Fritzbox 6660 cable modem with quad DVB-C Tuner + Tvheadend 4.3-1967~geb59284 + Kodi.

This is working almost perfect.

Only almost because i've got the following problem:

When Tvheadend uses one tuner twice, because the 2 services are in the same mux, the stream starts stuttering.

This will get worse, 'till the FB isn't reachable anymore and reboots.

So my question is, if there's a config setting to limit the use of a single tuner and use the next free one instead.

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Christian

Jordan van Bergen

I have installed Tvheadend on my QNAP NAS but it doesn't find any of the Fritzbox 6660 tv-tuners.

Do you know what I have to do to get the Fritzbox 6660 tuners to show up?

If I have this working we can maybe work together to see if what you say is happening to me as well.

Al Bundy

@Jordan: maybe the linked page will help you too

https://tvheadend.org/d/5290-can-someone-exlplain-how-to-setup-a-sat-ip-dvb-c-tuner-from-an-avm-fritzbox

AFAIK you don't need dedicated IP addresses for each tuner.

@Christian: I'm not sure but maybe check "Full mux RX mode supported" setting. And check the logs - maybe it's another issue in your setup.

Jordan van Bergen

I need to do this:

CONFIGURING TVHEADEND

First open /etc/init.d/tvheadend, find the line reading ARGS="-f" and append something like --satip_xml http://192.168.1.1:49000/satipdesc.xml within the quotes. save the file and restart Tvheadend.

So I need to change the startup parameters to make sure to let TVHeadend look voor DVB-C tuners on http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml

I just can't find out where to change the args= on the qnap startup script.

Anyone knows how to get this in the startup script what's explained above with ARGS="-f --satip_xml http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml"

Jordan van Bergen

I did this now:

./TVHeadend.sh cmdline

And put this in the first cmdline:

--satip_xml http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml

Saved with ESC

wq!

And restarted TVHeadend on QNAP NAS AppCenter.

Now it sees the DVB-C Tuner!

Al Bundy

maybe you can find the script with something like


ps fax

Christian Schöniger

for configuring tvheadend with a Fritzbox 6660 Cable

first make sure Live-TV is enabled on the FB:

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Tvheadend should find the device (or is there something else to setup?):

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The Adapter and each Tuner is configured like this:

There's no need for dedicated IP addresses for each tuner.

!Screenshot_2022-02-06_10-33-29.png!

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Hopefully this will help.

Jordan van Bergen

For me it did not show the tuners in TVHeadend. But after doing this from the QNAP NAS command line:

vi ./TVHeadend.sh cmdline

And put this in the first cmdline:

--satip_xml http://10.238.238.1:49000/satipdesc.xml

Saved with ESC

wq!

And restarted TVHeadend on QNAP NAS AppCenter.

Now it sees the DVB-C Tuner!

So this is what was needed for me to be able to use the Tuners in de QNAP TVHeadend NAS.