IPTV Services problem

Juraj Bobak

Hello. I have a problem with "Services". It's a bit complicated so here is the description.

I installed tvheadend in version"4.1~374~g2218885-dirty" from github some time ago and todayv4.0.7 package from releases download page. I added IPTV network, set all muxes and channels for services and it was working perfectly. But then after some time I could not play some channels. I found out, that the new"Service ID" for mux was added and the previous service with another"Service ID" was unusable. These changes were related also to"Service name" and sometimes also to count of audio streams. So provider changed it. From this I understood, that tvheadend is scanning Muxes, but I don't know what is the condition for scanning like when or why. Maybe the previous"Service" didn't work, so tvheadend scanned it again.

The main problem is, that when this happens and new service is added toMux, channel is not updated with this new service and I have to do this manualy through web frontend, because the previous pair"Channel <-> Service Name" is disabled and new"Service Name" in tab"Services" has empty"Channel" column.

I tried many different settings what I found, but nothing helped. I used also https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Custom_MPEG-TS_Input to "direct copy" the stream, where I set also my own "Service ID" with "-mpegts_service_id" switch, but this solution is not good enough. The problems are FullHD channels. If I want also to map all audio/subtitle streams, I run into issues like stuttering with ffmpeg and node.js/avconv solution it is even worse.

So there is no pipe:// solution for me so far. Is there some way to automatically pair newly added mux service to the channel? Or other solution?

Thanks for help

Guillem C

Hi,

I have the same problem.

Any solutions?

Thank you!

Juraj Bobak

Hi,

I made a workaround.

Description:
When new service appears, the file in muxes directory changes. This is true for versionHTS Tvheadend 4.1-2415~ge5f5a42-dirty (for example 4.0.7 had directories with service files). I'm using incrontab
https://linux.die.net/man/5/incrontab
to detect this change. Example how to setupincrontab is also inservice_channel_fix.php file. Read man page if you want to know more.
So when this event fired, script

service_channel_fix.php

is called and in parameter

$#

can be stored name of the file that changed. The file name is alsoMUX ID where new service was added. The rest is up to

service_channel_fix.php

script. It parses channels stored for old services, stores the channel(s) to new service and also deletes the old not working services.

Change that file with your parameters. Alter

USER

and

PASS

values,

SERVER_PORT@*, etc. 
I could not find out how to force incrontab log output of file so I'm storing buffer to variable and at the end storing it to *@LOG_FILE

declared on line20. Change also if you want.

If you don't want to delete old services, just delete or comment out these two lines:

if (count($oldServiceIds))
	deleteServices($oldServiceIds);

Scrpt uses

php-cgi

to run the script. Change it for your environment. Also

chmod

the file with

+x

Use it at your own risk.
Hope it helps :)