Tvheadend packages for Synology NAS

Martin Walter · 2017-08-12T19:39:16+00:00

Tvheadend 4.2.8 For those interested in native (non-docker)Tvheadend packages for theirSynology NAS systems, you will find recent release packages published...

Greg Rand

Looking through the syslogs it appears the drivers load okay, it recognises the cards and dev/dvb/adapters are created.

It looks like someone else is having trouble with a usb dvb device using plex. My suspicion is that the group permissions have been changed and the software is no longer able to access the adapters. But I'm hitting a lot of deadends with the logs. :-(

Martin Walter

If that's the case, you should be able to see "permission denied" messages once you launch TVH and it tries to access the tuners. Do you get those?

Greg Rand

No it hangs on access to the dev/dvb/adapter

If I stop Tvheadend and restart it, it says unable to access the first adapter, if I stop and reload again it says unable to access both adapters and then loads up with a login prompt.

Peter Mueller

Peter Mueller wrote:
> Martin Walter wrote:
> > 2) You manipulate thespk file oftvheadend(it's actually just atar package) and remove the filePKGCONX_ from theconf folder before installing it manually.
> What ever the reason is, I can not untar tvheadend_monaco-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk. It did work with the version before, I guess from your dropbox.
I'm not able to extract it with

tar xvf

Martin Walter

@Peter Mueller

I have just downloaded the monaco package from the link in post #1 and have been able to unpack it. I used 7zip on a Windows platform, but still. No indication the package would be corrupted...

Peter Mueller

Martin Walter wrote:
> I have just downloaded the monaco package from the link in post #1 and have been able to unpack it. I used 7zip on a Windows platform, but still. No indication the package would be corrupted...

Yes, it works with 7zip. But something is not understandable for me. The 3 files in conf are tripeled. Two copies of the files are zero byte files. Depending how the extraction is done, the "good" files are overwritten or not overwritten by the zero byte files. Hm.

Martin Walter

Right. This is a known bug with some spksrc scripts but won't hold you back. Just don't allow the 0kb files to overwrite the others.

Greg Rand

@Martin Walter

I ended up recompiling some of the dvb modules, I think the only one that was relevant was dvb-core.ko and that fixed the issue. I'm guessing synology modified it in some way on the last update.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'm new with linux based os and it's a steep learning curve.

Martin Walter

@Greg Rand
Well, if you are new to linux and you have already managed to compile dvb modules, there is no doubt your learning curve has been steep... :)
Happy to hear that. Congrats. Well done!

Robert Cameron

Martin,

I finally got around to generating a PR for your spksrc repo to update TVH to the lastest 4.2.5.

(First time trying a GitHub PR, but I think it's all done properly. Let me know if there are any issues. It built fine for me, but I only tried it for my own needs, armada375.)

Peter Mueller

Martin Walter wrote:
> 2) You manipulate thespk file oftvheadend(it's actually just atar package) and remove the filePKGCONX_ from theconf folder before installing it manually.

In addition another ports as 9981/9982 have to be used

Martin Walter

Correct. And you should REALLY know what you are doing. And better don't run both packages at the same time as they can lock the same tuners, which can wreak havoc...

Cédric M.

Hello.

I try to install your package on a 214play but I get an error [290], what does it mean ? :(

Model: DS214play

Version: DSM 6.1.5-15254 Update 1

# synopkg install tvheadend_x86-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk

Failed to install package tvheadend_x86-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk, error = [290]

From what I know, the DS214play is well an x86 machine,

and I have no previous install of TVH, so...

Thanks for the help.

Cédric.
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Robert Cameron

Cédric M. wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I try to install your package on a 214play but I get an error [290], what does it mean ? :(
>
> Model: DS214play
> Version: DSM 6.1.5-15254 Update 1
>
> # synopkg install tvheadend_x86-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk
> Failed to install package tvheadend_x86-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk, error = [290]
>
> From what I know, the DS214play is well an x86 machine,
> and I have no previous install of TVH, so...
>
> Thanks for the help.
>

> Cédric.

-The 214play is not x86, but a variety of arm. I'm not fully sure which, but some type of armada processor I believe.-

I just pulled up the datasheet. I stand corrected, the DS214play is indeed using an Intel Atom processor.

After a little more digging through the spksrc wiki, the DS214play needs the evansport architecture, not generic x86.

Cédric M.

Thanks for the digging :)

Indeed, it's well an evansport kernel

# uname -a

Linux xxxx 3.2.40 #15254 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jan 26 06:38:43 CST 2018 i686 GNU/Linux synology_evansport_214play

Sorry, my bad ..

The install does not work on the CLI

# synopkg install tvheadend_evansport-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk

Failed to install package tvheadend_evansport-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk, error = [290]

But it works in DSM ! :D

Many thanks.

Chad d

Just found this package and want to add big thank you. Is there any sort of idiots guide for integrating Comskip? Maybe it could be added to future builds? I've seen several links but it would be great if there were any details instructions for installing and configuring Comskip with this package. Thank you

Olof Sandberg

Gabriel Gunnarsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a Synology DS218play with the rtd1298 chip. (ARM v8) I cannot find a tvheadend package for this, so I suppose it is not supported. Would it be impossible/hard to compile tvheadend for this architecture? If so, do you know of any other software that could let me stream http IPTV (no recording)
>

> Thanks!

@Gabriel, m4tt075 uloaded a version for the rtd1296 architecture (DS118, DS218, DS418, DS418j & DS218play) a couple of days ago. I'm currently running it successfully on my DS418j. Look here and have a go at it, https://github.com/m4tt075/spksrc/releases/download/TVH-4.2.5-recrecov/tvheadend_rtd1296-6.1_4.2.5-12.spk.

Chris Beasley

Does anybody use a Sat>IP server with their NAS Package? Every time I reset the Synology NAS, the TVH package loses the Sat>IP server until I stop the package, reset the Sat>IP Server, and start the TVH package... All is well after this. An Ubuntu installation of TVH works fine with stop / start of the TVH server irrelevant of the Sat>IP server.

Martin Walter

Yes, I use two Sat>IP servers with my TVH NAS package and don't have this problem. If "reset" means "reboot" you might be experiencing some race condition. TVH might start quicker than drivers load or the network is properly established. I assume you have tested that already, but just stopping the TVH package and restarting it again without rebooting in between does not fix the problem, right?

Martin Walter

As Olof has already figured, new versions of packages have been compiled. The old version could lead to recordings being stored in system directories, where they do not belong. The new version fixes the default recording directory, recovers recordings from system paths and restores them in the right place. If you have customized your recording directory, this should not make any difference, but if you haven't, an upgrade is advised (linke in post #1 has been updated). As always, please backup before upgrading. This time, please also take care of your recordings! Please remember, this is all still in beta...

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