TVHeadEdit tool

Akos Sz · 2013-10-12T15:37:33+00:00

Hi, I was struggling a lot with Tvheadend GUI since it goes very slow with huge number of DVB services and does not support bulk change of settings. Finall...

Akos Sz

I would need information about the folder structure as well. That's why I asked for a zipped file containing all the database folders.
Subfolders my tool is looking for:
- dvbadapters
- dvbsatconf
- dvbmuxes
- dvbtransports
- channels
- channeltags

piotr w

I really don't understand how you fail to explain WHAT folder structure you need. This very same question has been asked before and will be asked again if you don't make this clear in your documentation.

So to avoid this question in the future:

Where does your tool run ?
What database/folder/files does it need (XBMC, TVHEADEND)
Is this an OpenElec tool only ?

Masen Sueifan

I created a zip-file with hopefully the files you need.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/93472316/tvhfiles.zip

the files has different names.

Akos Sz

Yes, this is exactly what I need.
I could not explain better the exact path if I do not have TVH running on a given platform. It seems that it was even possible to understand that I needed the folder where TVH stores its data.
Thanks.

Akos Sz

Hi Masen,

Is it still possible to assign custom channel name when a DVB service is mapped to a channel?

I cannot see such mapping in your database.

See this example channel descriptor file. This is how it looks like today.
{
"number": 0,
"dvr_pre_time": 0,
"dvr_pst_time": 0,
"services": [
"f178d1ed78867ac0782222c99eebfe60"
],
"tags": [
47,
2,
1
]

}

This is an old one:

{
"name": "Lifestyle TV (Telenor 0.8W)",
"tags": [
8
],
"dvr_extra_time_pre": 0,
"dvr_extra_time_post": 0,
"channel_number": 0

}

I wonder if the "name" tag is still valid in the new TVH database.

Could you please check if custom mapping is available on the GUI? If yes then please change the mapping of any service to a custom name e.g "myChannelname" and send me the content of the /home/hts/.hts/tvheadend/channel/ folder.

Meanwhile I am ready with the loading of the new version.

Regards,

Ákos

Acid Rain

Hi!

Are you still working on this tool?
It's sounds very well. (could not test it here, dropbox is locked at work... ;-) )

I'm using TVHeadEnd 3.9.xxxx with a DVB-C Card, and I'd like to edit the channels on my Windows PC.

With which language is it written?

Regards
Rain

Akos Sz

Hi,

Good timing. :)
Yes, I am working on this tool again and I plan to release a new version during this week which compatible with rewritten Tvheadend database. I still write it for myself but will make available public.

However DVB-C cards are still not supported. The reason is (beside that I don't have such card) that typically DVB-C systems have much less services hence they can be easily managed by the GUI of Tvheadend. The GUI is accessible by any Windows PC, BTW.

If you still think that you would need an offline editor and can you send me your database I can check if the tool is easily extendable with DVB-C support.

Regards,
Ákos
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steve parry

Ive started to build a tool for batch editing which works with 3.9.

https://tvheadend.org/d/2541-virtual-tv-server-setup-with-freeview-freesat

If anyone is interested I can provide the source as I dont have time. Its a .net wpf app.

It has a DAL layer which can referenced by any application if you want to write a different UI

Akos Sz

Hi,

The new version of my application is now available. See the link in the first post.
Even though the GUI of Tvheadend much better I still think that this app is useful.
Advantages:
- Bulk edit of multiple selected items
- Channel logo selector
- Advanced picon name finder (instead of generating picon name it tries to find the right picon file in picon folder)
- Channel number manipulation
- Transponder information input from kingofsat.net to add feed muxes easily

Ron L

Sounded interesting, downloaded it and had a look. Appears to be a windows app that won't run under wine even. Not sure how one would use this exactly.

Edit: Nevermind, I went back and looked at your first post again and I see you did warn us that this is a Microsoft Visual Studio app. My bad.

Dexter Anderson

I found a problem with the new version, when updating transponders on 15w(Telstar12) i get an error and the app crashes.
On previous version i got an error "unknown fec in line 14" but the tp's would still be added and the app didn't crash.

Error logs included.

I also have a request, with the old version under services, when clicking on tp to organize them from low to high, it would list them by sat.

In the new version it still lists them from low to high, but mixes the sat tp's.

Thank you for the great app.

Akos Sz

Thanks for your feedback.

The problem was with a non-supported and probably invalid FEC value (1/4). This is now corrected in 2.0.0.4 version.

I have not change how the sorting works, so your observation seems strange. Anyway I will look into how to implement sorting on multiple columns. Until it is ready you can filter a single satellite then sort on the MUX frequency.

Dexter Anderson

Sounds great, thanks

Yup Yuppy

Hi Akos Sz, can you explain clearly what did mean under "to have a local copy of service.multimedia.tvheadend folder"? Is it a folder in the /home/user/.hts or in the XBMC/Kodi config directory? Note, that Kodi now doesn't have ..userdata\addon_data\service.multimedia.tvheadend (copied from from your help page), but only /home/user/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/pvr.hts (the same under windows) , where is the only one settings.xml file. Which files your program wants to do with?
I also have one feature request. I tried many times to start your progrum with wine under Archlinux and not only, but with no luck. Could we (me) expect that htstools can be compiled under linux (in better case), or start under wine at least?

Akos Sz

Hi,

"pvr.hts" is the config folder of HTSP client which is the frontend of tvheadend. So, "hts" is not tvheadend.
Try to find the configuration folder of the tvheadend backend server. In Openelec (which is small linux distribution running Kodi) the folder is at the path I described in the help file.

If you have a standalone tvheadend installed then search for the folder containing "channel", "input", "epggrab" ... subfolders.

To run this app in Wine try to install WineHQ .NET framework.

Yup Yuppy

Akos Sz wrote:

> If you have a standalone tvheadend installed then search for the folder containing "channel", "input", "epggrab" ... subfolders.

It was the first I did, I have configs in /home/user/.hts/tvheadend/ , but when I load your program it gives me an error, something like database version "0" is not supported. I suspect that your program reads tvheadend's config file and takes tvheadend version and database version from there. In my case config file contains only this:

{
	"muxconfpath": "",
	"language": "ukr,eng,pol"
}

What about yours, could you share?

>
> To run this app in Wine try to install WineHQ .NET framework.

Damn, you are right, I forgot that some windows applications need this p.o.s.

Yup Yuppy

You were correct, I installed .net framework by means of winetricks:

$ winetricks dotnet40

and finally I could start TVHeadEdit tool. It works flawlessly. Thanks for the tip!

Akos Sz

Dexter Anderson wrote:

> Sounds great, thanks

Hi,

Check 2.0.0.5 version. It supports sorting by multiple columns.
Single click applies sorting / changes direction. Double click removes sorting of a column. The order you apply the sorting has effect on the result. Last sorted column has the highest order.

Akos Sz

Yup Yuppy wrote:

> It was the first I did, I have configs in /home/user/.hts/tvheadend/ , but when I load your program it gives me an error, something like database version "0" is not supported. I suspect that your program reads tvheadend's config file and takes tvheadend version and database version from there.

Yes, you are right. The new version checks the database version info in the config file. 2.0.0.x support version 15 and 16 only.

The old version handled Tvheadend database before "DVBrewrite" was done. It did not have version info at that time. Hard to tell if your database is compatible with that or not.

Yup Yuppy

Akos Sz wrote:

> The old version handled Tvheadend database before "DVBrewrite" was done. It did not have version info at that time. Hard to tell if your database is compatible with that or not.

OK, let's try the following trick. Show me line with version data in your config file, I'll add the same line in mine and will check whether it is compatible or not.

BTW, how can I check the database version? I have tvheadend 3.4.27.

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