Here I go on the WhirlyGig again trying to make this work

Mark de Leon

I have made repeated attempts to use this software previously with a USB tuner card that I assumed did not work now I am trying with an with an older HD Homerun Dual and having similar results.

After installing the deb on My Raspberry Pi 3 I get my HD Homerun detected as "...-0" and "...-1", but no channels.

during the initial web set up I was taken to a Mux setup page that did not detect anything. I later see the term "Multiplexes" which I assume is used interchangeably with "Mux" (this is so typical of how Open source software is becoming with naming inconsistencies)

Out of curiosity , plugged my old USB tuner card back in to see if I could get it to detect channels but have no idea how with either the HD homerun or the USB card.

I know the HD Homerun works as I configured it with Windows and viewed TV on the Mac. Both the HD Homerun and the USB TV tuner show in the web interface , so I believe they are detected properly. Seems odd that neither device gets any channels on set up, I mean then what good is the initial set up?

Any help appreciated.

Mark

Mark de Leon

Ok I got past many of my issues once I found this: https://docs.tvheadend.org/configure_tvheadend/#4-if-necessary-manually-add-muxes

Why is this so hard to find and not linked to from the Wiki?

The wiki has about 1/4 page of info about it and no link. Strange indeed.

Also is there anything similar for adding an IPTV Stream?

New Problem: Once I changed the recording location, recordings stopped working. The location is valid I can paste it into a terminal and it takes me where it should. I do not want to record videos on the SD card with the Pi OS so I added a USB memory location. I can read and write to the memory as expected. It is formatted for exFAT. Maybe I should try a different format?

davep

> New Problem: Once I changed the recording location, recordings stopped working. The location is valid I can paste it into a terminal and it takes me where it should. I do not want to record videos on the SD card with the Pi OS so I added a USB memory location. I can read and write to the memory as expected. It is formatted for exFAT. Maybe I should try a different format?

TVHeadend runs as user 'hts', so that user needs to be able to write to the media and its mount point.

Mark de Leon

exFAT has no user permissions. I also tried ext4 in a folder belonging to hts:hts with the same result.

Mark

davep

What does TVHeadend report in the log at the time the recording should start?

(I think in PiOS log entries will be in the systemd journal.)

Hiro Protagonist

Mark de Leon wrote:

> exFAT has no user permissions. I also tried ext4 in a folder belonging to hts:hts with the same result.

None of us are clairvoyant. It might be helpful if you were to show your recording config and 'ls -la' of the path in question.

Mark de Leon

I know linux permissions. The permissions were properly set. I triple checked that.

I moved on. I have reinstalled several times and can not record on any install. I believe it to be a bug in the Pi3 deb installer.