Rage Inducing

gary price

Been messing about with tvheadend for 6 days now

My 2 cents:

For a rotor/vbox setup it is buggy to say the least

'No signal' wtf?

'No free adaptor' wtf? ok turn off epggrab, turn off idle scan, turn off initial scan which introduces 'no signal'

Channels ON THE SAME TP taking forever to load

For a single satellite setup its excellent channels load instantly absolutely spot on, but start adding sats and it has a brain fart

I cannot fathom out why this program needs to be constantly scanning - it scans when you dont want it to ie 'no free adaptor' and when you want to scan for a temporary feed it doesnt scan or takes forever

If you search on the tinternet regards theses problems there are posts and posts and posts going back 12 years with the usual 'check your connection' as the 'solution'

I have used SmartDVB, DVBviewer, ProgDVB, AltDVB, DVBdream for years they just work (brutal but true) my setup is perfect there is absolutely no way I am not getting a signal on a 1.8m dish for BBC One/28.2e based in the UK

When it works its great, but thats about 40% of the time, it should not be this complicated, this program is not new it has been around a long time surely these 'bugs' should have been ironed out by now

Thing is I have ditched Windows full time so I will have to persevere and learn all of the 'quirks' of tvheadend

Of course I have not listed my setup or provided any logs - just for shiggles - Ubuntu 20.04 TBS6903 using one tuner, other tuner disabled

Maybe its something I have done wrong at my end as I said it works 'eventually' once it has worked out whatever it needs to open a FTA channel that I have a booming signal on, or maybe I have been spoiled by the ease of the other DVB programs which literally take minutes to set up

Dont hate me just some thoughts from a new (hopefully longterm once I wrap my head around it) user

One of the answers I saw to a question a new user asked when struggling with an issue in tvheadend was 'maybe this software is not for you' lol, I dont need to be spoon fed every piece of information regarding the program but it certainly is not (new) user friendly

TLDR - new users coming from Windows DVB software will be baffled by this program

Paul M

there's a specific setting to tell TVH to idle scan for new channels, so check if that's turned on.

what type of computer are you running it on?

I am currently running on a core-i3 2nd gen, a frankenstein machine made with salvaged parts, and generally the performance is adequate, it doesn't start streaming a channel instantly I tune in to it. I have a pair of TBS twin-tuner DVB-S/S2 cards, but when I only had one card I didn't observe problems with channel switching lag. I mean, it's not fast, but not been a headache.

BTW, that machine is soon to be replaced by a purpose built energy efficient ryzen-3 4300ge with platinum PSU. I will probably write a post about it when it's up and running. Building a kernel with the drivers has been a nuisance.

gary price

Hi I am on a fairly bog standard (crap) PC running Ubuntu with a TBS6903

CPU:
Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Pentium G3258 bits: 64 type: MCP
arch: Haswell rev: 3 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 12800
Speed: 1622 MHz min/max: 800/25500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2081 2: 1966
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 470.63.01 bus ID: 01:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: nvidia
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030/PCIe/SSE2

v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 470.63.01 direct render: Yes

Another thing I discovered earlier was scanning for a feed on 10e which returned with the error - linuxdvb: TurboSight TBS 6903 DVB-S/S2 #1 : DVB-S #0 - failed to tune [e=Invalid argument] but dvblast found the signal

I am new to all of this so will keep at it...

G Kazaroth

I have a NUC Intel i3 5th generation old box running Ubuntu. It has been running tvheadend for about 7 years for OTA with near to no issues. Before that I ran a NUC i3 3rd generation running Ubuntu and it is still running after a decade as my backup. No graphics card, just memory, SSD and a CPU with WiFi. I use the Intel chips because I like the hardware trans-encoding, but that is just me.

Saen Acro

G Kazaroth wrote:

> I have a NUC Intel i3 5th generation old box running Ubuntu. It has been running tvheadend for about 7 years for OTA with near to no issues. Before that I ran a NUC i3 3rd generation running Ubuntu and it is still running after a decade as my backup. No graphics card, just memory, SSD and a CPU with WiFi. I use the Intel chips because I like the hardware trans-encoding, but that is just me.

OTA is not way to watch TV

Way to watch is IPTV, DVB-T/T2/C/C2/S/S2/ATSC.

Transcoding on CPU is software-based transcoding

Transcoding on GPU is hardware transcoding.

I use "this" 20 years old board with 2 tuners on local DVB-T without problem's

Paul M

it's worth looking at your energy bill. old hardware can cost more to run than an upgrade to a new machine.

in my case, smartmon daemon was warning me the hard drives were beginning to fail, and a pair of 6TB drives was about half the cost of a new machine. A low powered CPU/GPU, motherboard, RAM and PSU were not that expensive in the overall scheme of things.

if anyone's in the UK in the Cambridgeshire area, I'll be giving away the old machine if you want it.