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...

Chris Beasley

Martin Walter wrote:

> 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?

Basically, if the NAS crashes, reboots or I stop / start the package, TVH will not pickup the SAT>IP server until I reboot the SAT>IP Server with the package stopped. Upon starting the package, the tuners are found normally.

Stopping the package with everything working fine and then starting it again causes the tuners to be lost; only way to get them back is to stopt the package, reboot the SAT>IP Server, wait until its running and then finally start the package.

Martin Walter

Wow. That's strange indeed. I do not see how just stopping a perfetly working package and restarting it should lead to losing SAT>IP servers. To TVH SAT>IP servers are nothing else than encapsulated "tuners on the intranet". They do not require any specific tuner drivers on your NAS. And your NAS should NEVER crash. Not sure this is helpful, but based on what you have written, I'd probably start inquiring the crashes first and look what causes them. This isn't normal...

Chris Beasley

We can ignore the crash bit, that was an extreme test in stability on something else... But the same remains, that upon powerloss, uncontrolled shutdowns and reboots of the NAS I appear to loose access to the tuners. The server is a Triax TSS400 MKII, which ones are you running?

I've just tested stopping the package and the starting it again and ensuring I open a new UI to TVH to ensure the WEBGUI hadn't had a spaz... It lost the tuners as before... I've got a few more tests to run but would be interested in any thoughts?

Martin Walter

I have two Digibit R1, but if it works on your Ubuntu system and just not on the NAS, I'd assume your Triax is fine. Powerloss / uncontrolled shutdowns can of course create issues with configurations not being saved appropriately. But in TVH the tuner configuration is written upon initial configuration and should not change while TVH is running, so again, unlikely to create those problems.

Chris, I don't have an answer really, but maybe we can figure out whether it is TVH or something else: If you stop TVH, can you reproduce the same problem with Videoplayer, i.e. does Videoplayer lose the tuners, too?

Chris Beasley

Ok, advise... Where is Videoplayer? I'm running a DS3615xs so if its a package it may not be available on mine.

Martin Walter

Apologies, I meant VideoStation, the standard Synology package for TV streaming. Open the Web-userinterface to your NAS, open the package manager, go to Multimedia and you should find it there. Install it, run it, that's it...

Russel Crowe

Hi
I have problems with updateting to the latest version on my RS815+ (Avoton).

The package has updated succesfully but after that it won't start.

The version from January works very well.
How can I check what happend?

Martin Walter

Hi Russel Crowe,

Wow, a very prominent user. Honored! :)

As follows:
(1) Depending on how many recordings you have had and whether they needed to be moved to another place, just waiting before starting the package might be sufficient. However, unless you havereally recordeda lot, 30 min of waiting should be enough for the file restoration. Assuming that is not it...
(2)ssh into your NAS,cd into/usr/local/tvheadend/var. Locate thetvheadend.log andtvheadendinstall.log_ files. Upload them somewhere (e.g.pastebinit) and post the links here. Assuming the/usr/local/tvheadend/var folder does not exist...
(3)ssh into your NAS,cd into/tmp. Locate thetvheadendinstall.log_ file. Upload and post the link as above.
Please also post which DSM version you are currently running.

Russel Crowe

Hi,

The last three lines of my install.log are:

Restore 'sc-tvheadend' unix permissions on package system directories
Granting 'sc-tvheadend' unix ownership on /volume1/@appstore/tvheadend/var

chown: cannot access '/volume1/@appstore/tvheadend/var': No such file or directory

That could not work due to my installation is on /volume2/@appstore/tvheadend
The unix permissions on /volume2/@appstore/tvheadend are set to sc-tvheadend:tvheadend

Martin Walter

OK, that's the problem. How did you manage to install TVH on/volume2?

Russel Crowe

Pretty easy
Preferences under paket center ->

default volume for apps set to volumeX

Will you be able to fix the issue?

Russel Crowe

btw: DSM 6.1.5-15254 update1

Martin Walter

Probably, but I'd need both of the full log files I have requested. Could you please post them?

Chris Beasley

Martin Walter wrote:

> Apologies, I meant VideoStation, the standard Synology package for TV streaming. Open the Web-userinterface to your NAS, open the package manager, go to Multimedia and you should find it there. Install it, run it, that's it...

Hi Martin,

How did you add a Sat>IP stream to videostation? Its asking only for a USB Dongle and I can't find a setting to enable this.

Russel Crowe

attached are the two files

The service is running if I use the sudo command

Martin Walter

OK. Thanks. Please try the following:

1) Stop the TVHeadend package via the package center
2)ssh into your NAS box and execute the following commands:
chown sc-tvheadend:tvheadend /var/packages/tvheadend/target chown -R sc-tvheadend:tvheadend /volume2/@appstore/tvheadend/var

3) Restart TVHeadend package via the package center

Does it work now?

Martin Walter

@Chris I thought this was possible with Video Station, but apparently isn't. OK, dead end, next try: Please provide the TVH log files just like Russel did above. Maybe we can see something there...

Chris Beasley

I'm beginning to think its actually the Triax TSS400 itself. It seems like it advertises itself either incredibly infrequently OR in a non-standard way that means server like TVH then ignore it.

I need to wait untill the missus isn't watching TV as I can then restart the package and see what the logs say as the current log is 3 days old and has the tuners fine. Can I just delete the tvh log file and it will create a new one?

Chris Beasley

Is there anyway to bind TVH to a specific Sat>IP static IP? I wonder if I can do that, that might solve the issues of it losing the tuners.

mpmc

pass the URL to your desc.xml on your satip box to tvh.

--satip_xml "http://192.xxx.xxx.xxx:1234/desc.xml"

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