Solution for Tvheadend Server and RPi 2

Aaron Sullivan

I am trying to get Tvheadend server running on RPi 2 but keep running into roadblocks in the EPG Grabbers. Currently I have OSMC running on my RPi 2 with TVH 4.0.9 and I can watch live TV with my Kodi boxes. I am in North America and normally use Schedules Direct for OTA guide data. Unfortunately the current package for xmltv-util is 0.5.63 which does not include tv_grab_sd_json and tv_grab_na_dd is broken. Can I just add the tv_grab_sd_json or how can I update to 0.5.68? Or is there a better solution here.

Thanks,
Aaron

mpmc

Aaron Sullivan wrote:
> I am trying to get Tvheadend server running on RPi 2 but keep running into roadblocks in the EPG Grabbers. Currently I have OSMC running on my RPi 2 with TVH 4.0.9 and I can watch live TV with my Kodi boxes. I am in North America and normally use Schedules Direct for OTA guide data. Unfortunately the current package for xmltv-util is 0.5.63 which does not include tv_grab_sd_json and tv_grab_na_dd is broken. Can I just add the tv_grab_sd_json orhow can I update to 0.5.68? +^+ Or is there a better solution here.
>
> Thanks,

> Aaron

^ Remove/purge xmltv (and all it's packages) & manually build & install it yourself, more info on how to do that "here"

Or..

Tvheadend 4.1.xxxx has support for PSIP on ATSC. As long as your ATSC signal has this data (check to see if your TV shows guide data), you won't need to use SchedDirect or xmltv. However, from what I've read on here the guide data sometimes only has data for up to 24 hours (use your TV to check this).

If you look on the AptRepo page there is a link to a package for armhf, however I'm not sure how updated this is, there was a fix recently for PSIP so you may be better off building your own (it's easy), you can read the guide I wrote on how to do this "here"

Robert Cameron

Aaron Sullivan wrote:
> I am trying to get Tvheadend server running on RPi 2 but keep running into roadblocks in the EPG Grabbers. Currently I have OSMC running on my RPi 2 with TVH 4.0.9 and I can watch live TV with my Kodi boxes. I am in North America and normally use Schedules Direct for OTA guide data. Unfortunately the current package for xmltv-util is 0.5.63 which does not include tv_grab_sd_json and tv_grab_na_dd is broken. Can I just add the tv_grab_sd_json or how can I update to 0.5.68? Or is there a better solution here.
>
> Thanks,

> Aaron

You can't quite just copy the 0.5.68, because the dependencies have changed. Also, some of the perl modules required need native C portions compiled for your device; OE/LE does not have a toolchain so you need to find them some other way.

Aaron Sullivan

Mark Clarkstone wrote:
> Aaron Sullivan wrote:
> > I am trying to get Tvheadend server running on RPi 2 but keep running into roadblocks in the EPG Grabbers. Currently I have OSMC running on my RPi 2 with TVH 4.0.9 and I can watch live TV with my Kodi boxes. I am in North America and normally use Schedules Direct for OTA guide data. Unfortunately the current package for xmltv-util is 0.5.63 which does not include tv_grab_sd_json and tv_grab_na_dd is broken. Can I just add the tv_grab_sd_json orhow can I update to 0.5.68? +^+ Or is there a better solution here.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aaron
>
> ^ Remove/purge xmltv (and all it's packages) & manually build & install it yourself, more info on how to do that "here" >
> Or..
>
> Tvheadend 4.1.xxxx has support for PSIP on ATSC. As long as your ATSC signal has this data (check to see if your TV shows guide data), you won't need to use SchedDirect or xmltv. However, from what I've read on here the guide data sometimes only has data for up to 24 hours (use your TV to check this).
>

> If you look on the AptRepo page there is a link to a package for armhf, however I'm not sure how updated this is, there was a fix recently for PSIP so you may be better off building your own (it's easy), you can read the guide I wrote on how to do this "here"

Thanks for the info I may give that a try in the future but I was able to just download the tv_grab_sd_json module from the latest XMLTV and it installed and worked great.