Enable ipv6 in tvheadend

Marcos Santos · 2024-01-05T02:07:06+00:00

I would like some help enabling IPV6 on my tvheadend server, tvheadend is installed on a device that runs the enigma2 system. I've been trying for days to e...

DeltaMikeCharlie

It looks like I made mine work on my LibreELEC v4.2 test system, although I did not try to connect.

# netstat -ltn Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:36666 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9090 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3702 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5355 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::36666 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::9982 :::* LISTEN <========= tcp 0 0 :::9981 :::* LISTEN <========= tcp 0 0 :::445 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::139 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN

I found where TVH was launched from and changed the command line parameters.

Are you able to provide some more information about your setup?

Marcos Santos

In your log, only IPV4 is apparently working, note that in the first column it says "tcp", if ipv6 was active, it should say "tcp6". My main tvheadend is running on an Enigma2 box, I have another one running on Libreelec, but the one I would like to enable IPV6 on is the one running on Enigma2, my intention is to be able to access it from the external network. If I can provide any more information, please let me know.

DeltaMikeCharlie

This is what my netstat looks like for normal TVH IPv4 operation.

# netstat -ltn Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:36666 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9982 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN <========= tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9981 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN <========= tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:9090 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3702 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5355 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::8080 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::36666 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::445 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::139 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN

I'm sorry, I can not help you any further as I don't use IPv6 anywhere.

Also, what do you mean by 'the external network'? Do you mean the Internet or do you mean from another computer on your local network?

If you mean the Internet: Could you try to use port forwarding on your router and forward from your public IPv6 address/port to the internal IPv4 address/port of your Enigma2 box?

Marcos Santos

To be quite honest, I don't have that much knowledge about IPV6, but as far as I know, unlike IPV4, with IPV6 each device receives an individual Public IP, so there is no need to do port forwarding.

In IPV4 we receive a single Public IP address, this address is assigned to the router and the router needs to do port forwarding to direct the flow that arrives at it to the appropriate device.

That's what I understand, but I could be wrong.

My intention here is to enable IPv6 on tvheadend so that I can access it from the internet, since the company put me on CGNAT I can no longer access my server from the internet, only on the local network.

DeltaMikeCharlie

I wish you good luck.

Marcos Santos

Thanks!
I hope someone can help me with this.

Marcos Santos

I managed to get ipv6 to work!

But only manually, I still haven't been able to make tvheadend start automatically with IPv6 activated.

I managed to make IPv6 work like this:

systemctl stop tvheadend /usr/bin/tvheadend -p /var/run/tvheadend.pid -c /home/root/.hts/tvheadend -6 --http_port 9981 --htsp_port 9982

This made tvheadend start with ipv6 enabled and this was the log:

netstat -ltn Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:23 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:8888 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:445 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:9000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:4200 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::21 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::9981 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::445 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::9982 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::8001 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::8002 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::8554 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::139 :::* LISTEN tcp6 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN

Can anyone help me make IPV6 start automatically?

DeltaMikeCharlie

You seem to be using systemctl.

I don't remember the exact details, but from memory this interacts with systemd. Have a look into how this works and where the command to start TVH is specified. You should be able to change the command line options there.

Jonas Lang

https://www.linode.com/community/questions/18064/how-can-i-make-systemd-on-debian-wait-until-ipv6-is-ready-before-reaching-the-ne

Marcos Santos

Yeaah!!

Thanks for the tip, Delta Mike, I went to the systemd\system folder and opened the file "tvheadend.service"

It had the following settings:


[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/tvheadend.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tvheadend -f -p /run/tvheadend.pid -C -c /home/root/.hts/tvheadend
ExecStop=/usr/bin/rm /run/tvheadend.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

So I modified the initialization command to:


[Service]
Type=forking
PIDFile=/run/tvheadend.pid
ExecStart=/usr/bin/tvheadend -f -p /run/tvheadend.pid -C -c /home/root/.hts/tvheadend -6 --http_port 9981 --htsp_port 9982
ExecStop=/usr/bin/rm /run/tvheadend.pid
Restart=always
RestartSec=5

Now it works perfectly!

Thank you very much for your help and patience.

DeltaMikeCharlie

Marcos Santos wrote:
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> Now it works perfectly!
>
Well done. Please let us know if you also get external access working too.

Marcos Santos

Yes, I have full access via the internet now (external network). Just type my IPV6 address in square brackets like [xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx]:9981 in the browser and I can access the Web interface.

Any doubt I am available.