DaddyLive, PlutoTV, XUMO, M3U/XMLTV, SamsungTV, Plex, TVGuide interfaces (appliance)

G Kazaroth

If you are talking about USTVGO, I am working on a release now.

G Kazaroth

LINK IN THE ABOVE TEXT IS SPYWARE AND HAS SENT WIFI DATA TO FOREIGN COUNTRY! DO NOT CLICK ON IT.

locast is dead...

G Kazaroth

0.9.7.4
This has a number of small updates, but has one major update to USTVGO. The channel list changed, significantly. You may need to remove the MUX and EPG list for USTVGO and then rescan/update once Cabernet updates. That is what I did. There are a few more changes to the list, but those are adds. TVH normally works fine when adding channels (modify is where the issue is).

R W

G Kazaroth wrote:

> If you are talking about USTVGO, I am working on a release now.

Not sure if this was meant for me but I was talking about USTVGO.

Mark de Leon

Ok I got this running under python (not docker) on the Raspberry Pi.

I was fortunate enough to encounter this on github , which took care of issues I was having with Rust and cryptography as I recall.

After doing as instructed on that page, damn, Python 3.8 is now good on my Pi.

So I have this script running and I will say that it is leaps and bounds ahead of the Windows.exe version that seemed so problematic.

I still have the following issues however.

Many channels still fail fail on TVHeadend by way of this script ALL of my channels from Frndly running the frndlytv for channels script. I get probably less than half of the xumo and half of the Pluto channels. I know that there is a method where supposedly one can extract a number from a single stream, but after trying it on TVH4.2 many times I have concluded it is for version 4.3, and does not apply to 4.2. Unfortunately I am stuck with 4.2 from what I can tell.

I was able to get it working once where I was not seeing commercials at all (ad block mode), that was on VLC. When I tried on on TVHeadend TVHeadend the Kodi client for TVHeadend never resumed playback it said something like "No stream" when it went to commercial and never came back. SO I need to figure out what other options work

I think also TVHeadend at least the version I run on the Pi3 (version 4.2) seems to stutter on some streams for no apparent reason, Nothing to do with ads. I did not think TVHeadend was really doing much more than a redirect in this case. Other PVR Solutions running on the same pi have not stuttered this way, and some of them were far more resource hungry..

Questions
Is it possible to use more and one m3u list?
It looks like there is HDHomerun integration but how do we make it work?

How do I make sure that I am seeing all the channels? Much Like TVHeadend channels are missing on some sources, probably due to failing at scanning???.

Feature request : Integration of https://frndlytv.com/ , especially if it can get past TVHeadend scan failures. You might be able to get some useful info from the script here https://github.com/matthuisman/frndlytv-for-channels https://www.matthuisman.nz/2021/11/frndly-tv-for-channels.html

R W

G Kazaroth wrote:
> 0.9.7.4

> This has a number of small updates, but has one major update to USTVGO. The channel list changed, significantly. You may need to remove the MUX and EPG list for USTVGO and then rescan/update once Cabernet updates. That is what I did. There are a few more changes to the list, but those are adds. TVH normally works fine when adding channels (modify is where the issue is).

I followed your steps and now I am on Version: 0.9.7.5 but now I am missing channels that I had access to before like VH1

G Kazaroth

For clarity on the issue, you are running with the appropriate VPN and had access to premium channel VH1 and now you do not. Are you saying that you do not have VH1 listed in the Cabernet channel list, or is the channel not streaming through TVH. Just a note, VH1 has not changed its attributes, so there should not be any issues with Cabernet. You can also check the channels with VLC using
http://ip:6077/ustvgo/channels.m3u VLC should work.

R W

I was able to get the missing channels back by going to Plex > Settings > Live TV & DVR and enabled the channels from there and fixed the channel number for each channel I want. My issue now is that whenever I try to play any of the channels Plex gives me the errorPlayback Error - Could not tune channel. Please check your tuner or antenna. VLC is also unable to play the channels when I add the m3u file to it.

R W

Here is the log error from Plex:


May 20, 2022 14:50:07.723 [0x7f6607bc1b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] HTTP requesting GET http://192.168.69.111:6177/discover.json
May 20, 2022 14:50:07.726 [0x7f661339cb38] DEBUG - [HttpClient] HTTP/1.0 (0.0s) 200 response from GET http://192.168.69.111:6177/discover.json
May 20, 2022 14:50:07.726 [0x7f6607bc1b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] HTTP requesting GET http://192.168.69.111:6177/lineup_status.json
May 20, 2022 14:50:07.729 [0x7f661339cb38] DEBUG - [HttpClient] HTTP/1.0 (0.0s) 200 response from GET http://192.168.69.111:6177/lineup_status.json
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.606 [0x7f6603a7eb38] ERROR - [Transcoder] [tcp @ 0x7f191c3ab480] Connection to tcp://10.6.139.170:5004 failed: Operation timed out
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.607 [0x7f6603955b38] ERROR - [Transcoder] http://10.6.139.170:5004/USTVGO/watch/9233000037: Operation timed out
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6614f12b38] DEBUG - Jobs: '/volume1/@appstore/PlexMediaServer/Plex Transcoder' exit code for process 25710 is 1 (failure)
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603f65b38] DEBUG - Streaming Resource: Terminated session 0x7f6612eee2f8:73b18471-79c7-4508-bfae-fced8cd459bf with reason Recording failed. Please check your tuner or antenna.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] TranscodeSession: session failed while waiting for duration
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] ERROR - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Failed to start session.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] ERROR - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Recorder: Unable to create transcode session or session failed to start.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Killing job.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Signalling job ID 25710 with 9
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] ERROR - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Recorder: Error 16 (Recording failed. Please check your tuner or antenna.) starting the record, shutting things down.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Grabber: Cleaning up rolling grab for channel 5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Recorder: No more consumers, stopping.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Recorder: Asked to stop recording 'Live TV - Session w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2' on channel 5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Grabber: Freed a tuner on device://tv.plex.grabbers.hdhomerun/105AC761 (now 3 available)
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.608 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Grabber: Operation for 'Live TV - Session w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2' on channel 5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a completed with status error (Recording failed. Please check your tuner or antenna.)
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Activity: Ended activity cc3627e0-e905-4f94-966c-f4468d4b643d.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Grabber: Cleaning up rolling grab for channel 5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Recorder: No more consumers, stopping.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603d46b38] ERROR - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Starting media grab failed.
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603d46b38] ERROR - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Unknown metadata type: 
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603d46b38] DEBUG - [Grabber/5fc77111e3b7d8002d386511-5fc70600598c41002da3dd0a-w3wbrfqm18orx8v9i53iiwq2] Asked for unknown type: -1
May 20, 2022 14:50:08.609 [0x7f6603fbdb38] ERROR - Subscription: Rolling media grab failed to start.

Mark de Leon

update on new discoveries with Windows .exe problems

Installed version 9.7.3 clean install.

Program does not start up it returns a (very quick) error that it is missing a file at c:\Program Files\cabernet\data\config.ini

So I copied the existing config.ini from C:\windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Documents\cabernet to c:\Program Files\cabernet\data

once launched I could see that the path above (c:\Program Files\cabernet\data\config.ini) was indeed set in GUi for the config.ini, but not for other data as it was going to the normal data path C:\windows\System32\config\systemprofile\Documents\cabernet

So With the teminal that launched cabernet open on Windows Machine and from a remote machine I tried to make a change in GUI. When the program was launched as a user it does not have permission to write to the c:\Program Files\cabernet\data\config.ini location.

So I then tried to change the config.ini location which appeared to be "read only" and not changable in the GUI. That actually makes half-sense as this is the same file that probably stores file locations such as the config.ini itself.

So that is part of what I see as happening with the Windows version.

I went back to the Win version after seeing that on Raspberry Pi and the DTS/PTS resync setting was causing 100% CPU Usage on all four cores. (This problem has since resolved itself)

Now I have also tried to run the version straight from python3.10 (externally installed FFMPEG with path set) with an entirely different set of errors showing on console every time I try to launch a stream.

After I get the Win exe uninstalled I will continue that on a different post.

Mark de Leon

Getting Cabernet running in Windows.

Since I had no luck with the Windows exe version of Cabenet, I wanted to post how to make it run from a python command in Windows 10. This may or may not work for Windows 11. This is actually much easier than getting it to run on existing linux installations, that may have issues upgrading python or other dependencies.

You need to install ffmpeg and python.

Here is a good how to for ffmpeg.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-ffmpeg-on-windows/

Here is how you can install python. Use the "custom" option. Make sure to check the boxes to install for all users, and to ad environment variables or add to path. .

Ddownload the cabernet code
https://github.com/cabernetwork/cabernet/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

and unzip it. Copy the main folder contents Caberbet[version] to c:\cabernet

you can launch cabernet by putting the following in a batch file, then adding that batch file to the startup folder for all users or a single user. .

C:\Path\to\Python c:\cabernet\tvh_main.py

Once running you need to set the ffmpeg path in "internal > path" for both ffmpeg.exe and ffprobe. If you followed the guide and installed to c:\ffmpeg then you would set the ffmpeg path tp C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffmpeg.exe and the ffprobe path to C:\ffmpeg\bin\ffprobe.exe

This is a much more effective solution for running under windows. No docker, no exe

You should test with firewall disabled but you will need to open at least ports 6077 and 5004 (possibly others?) on Windows firewall.

G Kazaroth

RW, it looks like you are using 2 different IP addresses in the plex log. One for the HDHR interface and the other for a stream. I suspect the 10.6.139.170 address has no access from plex, which is why you are getting a timeout. You can try to change the local_ip from 0.0.0.0 to 192.168.69.111 and see if that works. I do recall in some docker cases, that the IP needs to be bound to a specific IP. After changing the IP in Cabernet, take a look at the lineup.json and see if the IP address has changed.

john tocher

For what it's worth I get better playback using dvr function in Jellyfin. I keep setting it up in Plex and it just does not play as smoothly.

Using Antennas to proxy from TVHeadend.

Cabernet > TVHeadEnd > Antennas > Jellyfin

pretty much everything plays as smoothly as if I were using the TVHeadEnd PVR client with Kodi

Seems like USTVGO is smoother now. I had given up on using it before but with latest Cabernet seems to work better.

R W

After playing around with it I was able to get USTVGO to work again with the VPN but it still missing channels Like VH1 and some others. At least now the ones that it shows do play. I do want to make a note for people in the future that NordVPN seems to play videos from USTVGO but PIA VPN (Private Internet Access) does not work with USTVGO.

Mark de Leon

What are the "recommended Settings" for Xumo TV and PlutoTV instances that will work for TV Viewing without buffering/crashing on commercials?

If you have a response for this, please be complete in your answer. I have been trying to figure it out for too long now. It seems like none of the options make them work. Maybe I just have not hit the right combination?

Thanks

Mark

Mark de Leon

G Kazaroth,

Have you ever seen the Kodi PVR addon for Pluto TV? I refer to the PVR plugin not any of the video addons.

I ask because I had never tried the Pluto TV PVR addon for Kodi until a few days ago.

What I notice is that commercials (mostly non-existent) do not disrupt the video stream at all. There is no flash frame of black several seconds before the commercial starts, none of that. That is to say at least on the channels I tested. What seems to go along with the hacked in commercials is an annoying flash frame of black several seconds before the commercial starts.

My point is that I am sure that tracking down the how and why that PVR addon gets these streams, should not be that difficult. It might be better to incorporate whatever is happening on those links, in Cabernet.

Just a suggestion,

Mark

Mark de Leon

After multiple attempts to Get this running on other PVRs and V4.2 of TVH , none of which seemed to work well. I now have installed to TVH 4.3 built from source on Linux.

This however does not resolve the same issue I had with 4.2 SO I ask the question AGAIN. How do you keep the channel scans from Failing? I have Xumo as a source bu way of Cabernet but only between 20 to 30 channels are "ok" the others are "fail"

I am at my wits end with this and have spent far too long, asked all the questions, and sough the help.

I mean really if TVH does not work then how are people using it? Then again, where are the answers that are complete and succinct? Do people just put up with the shortcomings?

How can Cabernet enhance something that seems so broken? It certainly is not a solution for the failed scanning issue.

Thanks
Mark

mpmc

Mark de Leon wrote:
> After multiple attempts to Get this running on other PVRs and V4.2 of TVH , none of which seemed to work well. I now have installed to TVH 4.3 built from source on Linux.
>
> This however does not resolve the same issue I had with 4.2 SO I ask the question AGAIN. How do you keep the channel scans from Failing? I have Xumo as a source bu way of Cabernet but only between 20 to 30 channels are "ok" the others are "fail"
>
> I am at my wits end with this and have spent far too long, asked all the questions, and sough the help.
>
> I mean really if TVH does not work then how are people using it? Then again, where are the answers that are complete and succinct? Do people just put up with the shortcomings?
>
> How can Cabernet enhance something that seems so broken? It certainly is not a solution for the failed scanning issue.
>
> Thanks

> Mark

When you create the network have you unticked "Scan after creation" (See screenshot)?

!noscan.png!

john tocher

"Just individually rescan those that failed by setting each mux back to PEND from IDLE."

It literally says this at the top of each page of this thread.

Mark de Leon

Mark Clarksone, Are you saying I SHOULD or SHOULD NOT check that box?

John Tocher, I have tried that as well as documented in TVH and that does not work either, unless there is a step I am missing.

« Previous Page Next Page »