Tvheadend autostart conf. How?

Arthur S

Hello everyone!
I have Tvheadend on Ubuntu Server 15.10. I am a beginner in Linux. I need autostart Tvheadend on boot. Could You write a step-by-step to wich file I must to go and how I need to config it? Thank You very much! :)

Anders Gustafsson

Does this help?

http://support.sundtek.com/index.php?topic=105.0

But a better documentation for us linux noobs would certainly be helpful. Any takers?

Arthur S

I read not only here, but I don't understand. I need step by step from zero please.

Dreamcat 4

* You need to 'apt-get install' tvheadend first. As per the download instructions for ubuntu.

http://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/AptRepository

* You need to enable the tvheadend system service in Systemd.

Which I'm sorry I can't help you with as I use Docker and not systemd. Here's some resources:

http://www.howtogeek.com/216454/how-to-manage-systemd-services-on-a-linux-system/?PageSpeed=noscript

https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend-packaging/blob/master/systemd/tvheadend.service

You will probably find that the tvheadend apt pkg installes that file ^^ `tvheadend.service` in /etc/systemd somewhere. But that i just a guess on my part.

Honestly I much prefer Docker myself. But that would be a steeper learning curve for someone like you who wouldn't really know anything about it yet.

Arthur S

Needs to write this to terminal:sudo update-rc.d tvheadend defaults and after reboot srvice tvheaden is running.

Dave Travers

Any way make this permanent though?
This works fine until tvheadend us updated with apt, then it goes mack to a manual start service.

Arthur S

After update Linux server, or Linux desktop You need to start Tvheadend manualy and reentersudo update-rc.d tvheadend defaults to terminal . It will be work again.

Kristian Rapp

I did the following to make tvheadend autostart on Ubuntu 15.10:
sudo vi /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/tvheadend.service
Copied in the content from https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend-packaging/blob/master/systemd/tvheadend.service sudo systemctl enable tvheadend.service