The smallest / cheapest hardware to run TVHeadend

Lyubomir Trifonov

I've managed to run tvheadend on the cheapest possible (correct me if I'm wrong) hardware:
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MediaTek_MT7620
http://wiki.openwrt.org/_media/media/nexx/nexx.wt3020a.top.board.jpg?w=240&tok=49bb25

This is pocket size travel router, 8MB flash, 64MB RAM, 600 MHz MIPS CPU.

It has one USB port, so I've plugged a DVB-T USB Dongle,

then using the OpenWRT buildroot, I've crosscompiled the USB DVB-T Dongle driver, and tvheadend.

It works reasonably well, CPU never gets higher than 35%.

check the "video"

A dedicated tvheadend system could be build for about $50
* the pocket router,
* the usb dongle,
* usb hub,
* flash memory;
* antenna splitter;

Happy building :)

ProfYaffle

Just to make sure you're okay with this - I've added this to the official documentation as an example of how lightweight a tvheadend system can be.

Docs are a work-in-progress, but you're currently linked to here: http://docs.tvheadend.org/basic_requirements/

Thanks for the post!

Lyubomir Trifonov

Thanks, I'm absolutely happy with that !

A R

Lyubomir Trifonov wrote:
> I've managed to run tvheadend on the cheapest possible (correct me if I'm wrong) hardware:
> https://wikidevi.com/wiki/MediaTek_MT7620 >
http://wiki.openwrt.org/_media/media/nexx/nexx.wt3020a.top.board.jpg?w=240&tok=49bb25

> This is pocket size travel router, 8MB flash, 64MB RAM, 600 MHz MIPS CPU.
>
> It has one USB port, so I've plugged a DVB-T USB Dongle,
> then using the OpenWRT buildroot, I've crosscompiled the USB DVB-T Dongle driver, and tvheadend.
>
> It works reasonably well, CPU never gets higher than 35%.
> check the "video" >
> A dedicated tvheadend system could be build for about $50
> the pocket router, > the usb dongle,
> usb hub, > flash memory;
> * antenna splitter;
>

> Happy building :)

Can you make a step by step to make this run? please

A R

I have compiled the tvheadend for NEXX WT3020 and get a 5MB .ipk file.
The router has 8MB flash space and only have 4MB free, how can I reduce the .ipk removing tvheadend features?

Lyubomir Trifonov

A R wrote:
> I have compiled the tvheadend for NEXX WT3020 and get a 5MB .ipk file.

> The router has 8MB flash space and only have 4MB free, how can I reduce the .ipk removing tvheadend features?

What you can try is to copy your *.ipk file to /tmp, there's plenty of space there.

Then you can install it , so you'll see if it works or not.

Just make sure that you recompile the kernel as well, including your DVB USB dongle support, otherwise tvheadend has nothing to do.

A R

Lyubomir Trifonov wrote:
> What you can try is to copy your.ipk file to /tmp, there's plenty of space there. > Then you can install it , so you'll see if it works or not. > > Just make sure that you recompile the kernel as well, including your DVB USB dongle support, otherwise tvheadend has nothing to do. Hi Lyubomir, Yes, I copied the file to the temp folder but next I try to install and gives it: /tmp# opkg install tvheadend_4.0.7-1_ramips_24kec.ipk Installing tvheadend (4.0.7-1) to root... Collected errors: verify_pkg_installable: Only have 4240kb available on filesystem /overlay, pkg tvheadend needs 4908

* opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package tvheadend.

I still know that I need to install this dependencies:
libopenssl; librt; zlib

is more 1MB, so is impossible install 5MB when only remain 3MB

I only need the DVB-T, can I remove the rest DVB and analog or other features to reduce the .ipk file?
I leave here the .ipk compiled, I don't know if it works because I can't test.

enzo ricci

hello I would be interested in your project tvheadend on openwrt I tried on an hg553 but who compiled the tvheadend to remove the part cas e de important I would like to ask if you would give me a hand to compile a new one with the working part cas