Force DVB type

Christian Wohlert · 2013-05-15T11:28:50+00:00

Hi at all, I use a terratec h7 connected with dvb-c. TVHeadend initially recognizes the adapter as dvb-s type, therefore I could not add any muxes to get s...

Adam Sutton

Yes, and that's basically no better than your hack ;) and therefore no point in adding it to master given that the code is being completely reworked and updated.

Adam

Linus Östholm

Any news on this?

I tried the hack mentioned above. And in

/home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/dvbadapters/

the adapters shows up with

"type": "DVB-C",

but when i try to add muxes it still thinks it is a DVB-T/T2 card.

Any suggestions?

Jeffrey Schilperoord

I am also having this issue with a technisat cablestar combo hd ci. I will try to apply the above patch.

Linus Östholm

Try the latest builds of tvheadend. I think you can choose what fronted you want or use there.

Adam Sutton

Indeed, new code "should" now properly support combi tuners. Though there may still be some teething problems. But it does work with the Sundtek T/C device that I have.

Adam

Jeffrey Schilperoord

That sounds promising. I'll have to check which version comes with the latest openelec devel builds. As I am using openelec.

Thanks for your very quick responses :-)

Jeffrey

Jeffrey Schilperoord

Just to verify. We are talking about the latest development builds? I currently using 3.4.27 wich doesnt have this switch. Can you provide some specifics about which version I should compile ?

Thanks,

Jeffrey

Alasdair Campbell

@Adam,

Which version are you referring to that properly handles combi tuners? I have a DuoFlex C/T/T2 tuner and tvheadend seems to think it can only handle DVB-C. Even when I alter the adapter file and change it to DVB-T, restart tvheadend it thinks the adapter is disabled so when I enable if via the web gui it overwrites the config and undoes my changes :(

Cheers,
Alasdair.

ProfYaffle

@Alasdair - me again :-) - Adam talks about the "new code", which I take to mean the new DVR code and adapter handling. Go to the latest version (3.9.x) and you'll get it.

Alasdair Campbell

Cheers @Prof, downloading 3.9 tag now, just to figure out how to build for openelec.

Simon Hanemaaijer

I am also trying to fix this issue just like Jeffrey.

@Alisdair: Did you get anything working yet? I've also been looking at how i can compile this for OPENelec. I've been able to clone and build the 3.9 branch on my Ubuntu machine. Now i need to add these build.linux packages/files into the OpenElec tvheadend directory? Or am i missing something here.

I did the following:

1. Get v3.9 branch of tvheadend
2. Compile this branch following tvheadend's guide
3. ? Im guessing that i need to copy the files generated in the build.linux folder of tvheadend to the "OpenELEC.tv/packages/addons/service/multimedia/tvheadend" folder but i am totally insure.
4. Adjust config files and meta files for openelec following these steps http://openelec.tv/forum/79-tvheadend/52322-solved-new-tvheadend-binary-or-add-on?limitstart=0#53739

5. Build OpenELEC again?

I hope you guys understand more if this than i do...

ProfYaffle

If you need it for Ubuntu, I suggest you use one of the precompiled .debs:

https://tvheadend.org/builds/tvheadend

If you need it for OpenElec, try these:

http://saraev.ca/tvheadend/4.1/

I don't think you need to rebuild OpenElec - try installing the replacement addon as a zip from the System -> Addons menu.

Simon Hanemaaijer

I'm trying that last option and it doesn't work for me. When i try to install the addon from zipfile it says "Failed: Dependancies missing" in XBMC. Without saying what dependancies i am missing. From reading the addon.xml file i was able to see this:

</requires>

Does that mean i need openelec 4.0?

Or Maybe Python is missing?

But shouldn't it update these automatically?

Altough; from reading other forums i can see that it might be due to an XBMC version problem. Do i need Gotham for this to work? Currently user 12.2 i think (standard openelec xbmc)

ProfYaffle

Most likely that the new addon depends on the pre-Gotham OpenElec versions - you won't get an auto-update to 4.0 until it's formally released, so you won't know about them unless you go and get them.

http://openelec.tv/forum/20-development-discussion/67846-xbmc-gotham-generic-nightly-builds

Current OE is Frodo 12.3, I think, moving to Gotham 13.0 in due course - Gotham is about to go into formal beta, so it should be pretty stable now. OpenElec 4.0 will be based on Gotham, so it's the same answer whether you look at it as an OE version issue or an XBMC version issue.

Alasdair Campbell

I can confirm the Link @Prof gave:

http://saraev.ca/tvheadend/4.1/

Works on the OE nightlies based on Gotham.

@Simon, Update to a Gotham based version and the link will work. I now have DVB-T TV using my DuoFlex DVB-C/T/T2 card which previously was trying to only use DVB-C when I don't have cable.