Adding pre-defined muxes

Bernhard Heyer

How could one add dvb-t2 muxes to the 'Pre-defined muxes' drop-down when installing TVHeadend?
I would like to add some muxes for za-CapeTown, South Africa.

davep

The data comes from this Github repository: https://github.com/tvheadend/dtv-scan-tables

Raise a Pull Request containing the necessary changes.

Bernhard Heyer

How does one create a Pull Request?
Sorry, I'm a bit of a newby on this front...

davep

Search for "github tutorial".

You don't have the right to make changes to the dtv-scan-tables repository so you have to create a copy of it, edit that, then invite the maintainer to "pull" your changes into the official version.

Bernhard Heyer

Thanks Dave, the tables are installed on

https://github.com/tvheadend/dtv-scan-tables/tree/tvheadend/dvb-t

However, 'za-CapeTown' still does not show under the 'Pre-defined muxes' drop-down when installing and configuring TVHeadend? How can they be shown under this option?

davep

Which version of Tvheadend are you using and is it self-built or are you using a package? If packaged where did it come from?

It now seems that the scan tables are built into the Tvheadend package on some (most?) distributions so cannot officially be updated separately.

As an unofficial workaround (tested OK) if you are using a package and cannot get a recent update


cd /usr/share/tvheadend/data/
git clone https://github.com/tvheadend/dtv-scan-tables.git
mv dvb-scan dvb-scan.old
mv dtv-scan-tables dvb-scan

I can now see the new muxes in the 'add new network' box, though for some reason without the country.

davep

The list of country codes is in src/input/mpegts/scanfile.c. Country code "za" needs to be added to the list.

Bernhard Heyer

I'm using a Raspberry Pi-4 with Raspian GNU/Linux 10, TVHeadend and then Kodi.

davep

South Africa has now been added to the countries list so the 'pre-defined muxes' drop-down should now work as expected if you update to latest master.