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...

Richard Vogt

I'm having a problem with the EPG time on my Synology DS918 running TVHeadend 4.2.5-12. All EPG times are always wrong listed in UTC time (2 hours too early) but the Synology server has correct UTC+2 time, the network under DVB-Input is set to locale time and even when I set it to UTC+2 the EPG time still remains wrong (UTC time). On my second server DS-916 I'm having exactly the same problem.

Martin Walter

Try setting the time in the tvh-network tab to UTC.

Richard Vogt

Perfect solution, works on both servers. But has to be corrected in the software, because makes not much sense as it is right now.;)

Peter Schneider

Having difficulties on a DS216j with DSM 6.1.6-15266 (Update 1) when trying to install the latest TVH version (4.2.6, armada 38x build): The package does not start in the package manager. When trying to start in manually in /var/packages/tvheadend/scripts/, I get the following errors:

./service-setup: line 6: [: : integer expression expected
Starting ...
./service-setup: line 18: type: service_prestart: not found

./start-stop-status: line 29: [: : integer expression expected

Seems that several of the required parameters like "SYNOPKG_DSM_VERSION_MAJOR" are not available on my system.

What should I do?

Thanks a lot in advance!

Martin Walter

First of all, give it time. After the upgrade and before starting, TVH performs a backup, which can take several minutes. Then, recordings might have to be moved, which can take a lot of time. Just start it and let it run for an hour or so (ignore the run state in the package manager). After waiting, try to log into the TVH Web-userinterface. IF it works, fine. If not, provide log files please. You will find instructions how to retrieve those if you read back into this thread.

Btw, the package has to be started via the package manager. It cannot be started manually anymore.

Martin Walter

The 4.2.6 package you guys have tested has been accepted and published on the Synocommunity repository and can be obtained from there. This thread might be reactivated with future testing packages. For the time begin, please report any Synology-package specific issues with the Synocommnity. The initial post has been updated and contains the relevant links. Many thanks to all testers and contributors here!

Steven Moschidis

I have just installed the (latest version of this) package on my Synology DS1515+ running the latest DSM.
I have a dual tuner HDHomeRun.

I am based in the UK.

I am a noob, so I have no idea what I'm doing. However, having set up a network and linked it to the two tuners I am stuck. When I click on Force scan, nothing happens (nothing in the logs either).

I am doing something wrong for sure, but seeing as there are 0 docs for these things, I fail to see what I could try.

Any ideas?

Martin Walter

As long as the tuners show up, you are in a good place.
Take a look here:
http://docs.tvheadend.org/configure_tvheadend/ This is work-in-progress but contains the key elements.

Or search the internet for some other standard configuration instructions.

Basically, you have to
(1) Define the right network you are using (probably US_ATSC, but not sure)
(2) Assign the networks to the tuners AND activate the tuners
(3) Scan for muxes and services

(4) Map services to channels

Click on the little cog wheel on the lower right hand side of the web interface to see log entries. This definitely helps to see when something goes wrong in one of the steps above...

Steven Moschidis

Thank you Martin.
I have defined the network; like I said, I'm based in the UK.
I have indeed read through that wiki article, but it offers no relevant information.

I'm surprised that there are no docs for setting this stuff up. I'm thinking of typing it all up, if I manage to figure it out.

In any case, like I said, my issue is that "Force scan" does nothing. And as I said there is nothing in the logs either.

One weird thing was that my HDHomeRun was not identified as DVB-T, but DVB-C. I had to force it to DVB-T.

Does anyone have any relevant information based on the above?

mpmc

Steven Moschidis wrote:
> Thank you Martin.
> I have defined the network; like I said, I'm based in the UK.
> I have indeed read through that wiki article, but it offers no relevant information.
> I'm surprised that there are no docs for setting this stuff up. I'm thinking of typing it all up, if I manage to figure it out.
>
> In any case, like I said, my issue is that "Force scan" does nothing. And as I said there is nothing in the logs either.
>
> One weird thing was that my HDHomeRun was not identified as DVB-T, but DVB-C. I had to force it to DVB-T.
>

> Does anyone have any relevant information based on the above?

When Martin says "Scan for muxes and services" he means you either need to manually add the frequencies or use a pre-defined list (not recommended as they're out of date).

Here's an example of my mux list.

https://0x0.st/seZT.png

Steven Moschidis

So are you saying that I have to manually add all the muxes (as the predefined lists are fubar)?

I thought the "Force scan" option in the network tab was supposed to make tvheadend discover all available muxes direct from the tuner. Is that not the case? If not, then why not? What is it supposed to do?

I have a friend who set up tvheadend on a pi (or nuc) using the same hdhomerun as I have. He fired up tvheadend, added the network, linked it to the tuners, hit the force-scan button and the muxes appeared.

mpmc

Steven Moschidis wrote:

> So are you saying that I have to manually add all the muxes (as the predefined lists are fubar)?

No, not fubar just old. You only need to add ONE mux for DVB-T as long as you have network discovery active it should find all the others. The only exception to that is DVB-T2 those muxes aren't in the NIT.

> I thought the "Force scan" option in the network tab was supposed to make tvheadend discover all available muxes direct from the tuner. Is that not the case? If not, then why not? What is it supposed to do?

"Force scan" makes tvh scan through all known muxes, if a scanned mux has NIT and that contains new mux info tvh will add it.

> I have a friend who set up tvheadend on a pi (or nuc) using the same hdhomerun as I have. He fired up tvheadend, added the network, linked it to the tuners, hit the force-scan button and the muxes appeared.

Depends on the version, 3.4 used to scan through all frequencies but that was removed, I'm not 100% sure as to why but I think it was because it took an age to complete.

Steven Moschidis

Thank you Mark, that's beginning to make more sense now!

Ok so I will manually add one mux and see what happens.

Thank you for taking the time to explain.

Chris Beasley

Just had to completely reinstall DSM and now I can't get the latest TVheadend install, synocommunity is only offering 3.4.27-6... Is there any way to manually install the SPK file to get me to the latest?

Steven Moschidis

@Chris, it's because they're released as beta. If you enable beta packages in the package manager, you will see the latest version

Chris Beasley

Thanks. Got it back again!

Its streaming fine around the house, however I'm now unable to watch via the web interface. I get the following error:

2018-05-23 16:11:39.572 libav: Undefined constant or missing '(' in 'high'
2018-05-23 16:11:39.572 libav: Unable to parse option value "high"

2018-05-23 16:11:39.572 libav: Error setting option profile to value high.

I've never had this before and nothing has changed in terms of config.

Chris

Martin Walter

Hi Chris,

Never seen this before. Googling for the error messages leads back to other threads on this forum. Seems to be related to VAAPI transcording. Please crosscheck, but I have not seen any solutions to this problem there either. If you cannot find anything, please open a ticket and be patient. perexg does not seem to be active these days, but maybe he looks at it when he returns...

Robert Cameron

Chris Beasley wrote:
> Thanks. Got it back again!
>
> Its streaming fine around the house, however I'm now unable to watch via the web interface. I get the following error:
>
> 2018-05-23 16:11:39.572 libav: Undefined constant or missing '(' in 'high'
> 2018-05-23 16:11:39.572 libav: Unable to parse option value "high"
> 2018-05-23 16:11:39.572 libav: Error setting option profile to value high.
>
> I've never had this before and nothing has changed in terms of config.
>

> Chris

In my past experience, these indeed are related VAAPI transcoding. It sounds as if you are using a version of Tvheadend that was build against a version of libav*/ffmpeg that had VAAPI support enabled. However, Tvheadend 4.2 does not know how to properly deal with options/parameters to libav* for VAAPI.

VAAPI support does work with 4.3, but I don't believe that the Synology packages are built from the master/4.3 branch, only 4.2. Therefore, I believe you need to wait until there are 4.3 packages, or use libx264 as your transcoding method as VAAPI does not work with 4.2.

Martin Walter

@Robert Cameron
Thanks for chiming in. Your assumptions are correct. TVH is indeed built against a version with enabled VAAPI support on Intel platforms. I wasn't aware this would cause problems though.

Chris Beasley

If 4.2.5 was not built with VAAPI that would explain it. I've only just upgraded to 4.2.6 on the NAS after redoing the NAS and its not working compared to the earlier versions which playbacked fine. I've got an Intel CPU in the NAS.

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