Which version to use currently on 3.4

Rob Mccombe

Hi,
I'm new to all this and have just built my self a small htpc and I'm having a couple of teething problems.
I have installed kodibuntu, updated everything and all is good.
It has tv headend built in version 3.4 but my question here is, is that a better versio I could be using, I like the idea of having picons for channels but I can only add urls.
I am also having problems getting kodibuntu to recognize 2 tuner cards. As standard it installs one by default but when I install drivers for the tbs card it then removes my Hauppauge card.

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

ProfYaffle

I'd suggest using the latest stable version, as 3.4 is quite old now. See here:

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

You have a choice of four branches; go for "Tvheadend - Stable branch - official releases" unless you're adventurous enough to try Master.

As for the drivers... welcome to the world of TBS. They tend to use a proprietary driver library that over-writes your existing version with a patched-for-TBS but older version of the same. So, if you have a card that depends on a newer version, you get exactly what you're seeing.

There are open source drivers for TBS that may play more nicely - not sure of the cards they support, though, so you'll need to do some searching and reading.

Rob Mccombe

Hi,
Thanks for your reply that's cleared a few bits up :).
The only problem now is when I add apt repo for the latest stable 4.x version it fails to connect when I apt update.

But if I add apt master unstable it will work and give me version 4.1.917 but I would much prefer a stable version.

Thanks

Anders Gustafsson

FWIW, I still use 4.0.7

ProfYaffle

I believe 4.0.7 is the current stable - 4.0 is certainly the current major stable, and .7 feels right for minor releases. We'll jump to 4.2 "soonish".

I can't immediately comment on the apt error... it should be there. What's the PPA line you have, just in case there's a problem with a specific build/'ubuntu revision?

Dreamcat 4

Yeah. Please gist us your apt sources.list (+ and files in the subfolder sources.d/ which include the string 'tvheadend')

e.g.

cat /etc/apt/sources.list > gist
echo "### sources.list.d/" >> gist

grep -R tvh /etc/apt/sources.list.d >> gist

--> paste.ubuntu.com --> give us URL

Anders Gustafsson

FWIW:

dalton@tvburk:~/devel> git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend.git Cloning into 'tvheadend'...
remote: Counting objects: 53756, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (113/113), done.
remote: Total 53756 (delta 39), reused 1 (delta 1), pack-reused 53639
Receiving objects: 100% (53756/53756), 31.83 MiB | 2.44 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (39331/39331), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
dalton@tvburk:~/devel> ls
tvheadend
dalton@tvburk:~/devel> cd tvheadend/
dalton@tvburk:~/devel/tvheadend> git checkout tags/v4.0.7

Note: checking out 'tags/v4.0.7'.

(On OpenSuSE)

Dreamcat 4

There's no other reports at the moment for repo issues.

v4,1 tag > v4.0.7

Sounds like your local apt cache / sources have remembered or still think there is a 4.1 version. That's a problem which has also been experienced by a few others here who were unlucky enough to have installed or seen / cached from a v4.1 tvheadend sources.

http://apt.tvheadend.org/unstable/pool/main/t/tvheadend/

^^ Probably from our old repo here.