tvheadend with zattoo (Germany)

cnnie

Want to use zattoo with tvheadend.
Firststep was to create a m3u list containing the TV senders.
The m3u list works in vlc, so the content is ok.
I created new network (IPTV) and provided the file:// parameter which pointed to the m3u list.
The content of that m3u file is now listed under the muxes tab.
But no service is created nor can I add them....
So my question is how to go on?
I try to finde somethink with google, but nothing really mathes or didn*t bring a solution.
I think it is not really dificult, but I'm to stupid ;-)
And further on how to get the EPG up and running?
Thanks Clemens

cnnie

Ok - streams are now listed - but none is mapped and all deliver an error like :
2024-05-20 22:52:52.406 mpegts: favorites.m3u - NDR Niedersachsen in zattoo-m3u - scan no data, failed
2024-05-20 22:52:52.406 subscription: 1664: "scan" unsubscribing
I also tried to use a ffmpeg pipe:
2024-05-20 22:52:37.466 mpegts: favorites.m3u - Das Erste HD in zattoo-m3u - tuning on IPTV #2
2024-05-20 22:52:37.499 epggrab: favorites.m3u - Das Erste HD in zattoo-m3u - registering mux for OTA EPG
2024-05-20 22:52:37.505 subscription: 166E: "scan" subscribing to mux "favorites.m3u - Das Erste HD", weight: 5, adapter: "IPTV #2", network: "zattoo-m3u", service: "Raw PID Subscription"
2024-05-20 22:52:37.510 spawn: Executing "/usr/bin/ffmpeg"
2024-05-20 22:52:45.458 spawn: Executing "/usr/bin/ffmpeg"
2024-05-20 22:52:51.372 spawn: Executing "/usr/bin/ffmpeg"
2024-05-20 22:52:52.394 mpegts: favorites.m3u - HR in zattoo-m3u - scan no data, failed
2024-05-20 22:52:52.394 subscription: 166D: "scan" unsubscribing
Hmmm.....

kkarsten62

Hi Clemens,

I am just experimenting with Tvheadend for TV channel streaming as a possible replacement for German cable provider Unitymedia/Vodafone.

I have Libreelec/Kodi Zattoo App installed with the free account. And I have set up a Configuration (Network/Muxes/Services/Channels) for some free (Öffentlich-Rechtlich) channels from IPTV-Org on Github. Both works. But I have a strong interest to use Tvheadend for Zatto as well to receive private channels as well.

May be we can try together to combine Zattoo and Tvheadend.

May I ask you:

How did you find the "m3u list" with the channels and http(s) addresses for Zatto?
Can you provide me the "m3u list"?
Do you have a paid account?

Then I can checkout in my environment.

Regards
Karl ...

olgr

I'm living in the north of Germany and I'm using tvheadend for years. So far, I have a hdhomerun tuner to pick up the cable TV from WTNet. That works great for a long time. The disadvantage: As WT is not willing to provide the private Stations in HD format without dedicated Hardware (CI+ and card), it is not possible to buy the WT HaiD-TV called package and continue to use TVHeadend as Backend for Kodi.
So I'm looking into alternatives and I think Zattoo will be able to do this.
This is what I did:

Setup Zattoo fee account (for now; going to change to ultimate if everything seems to work)
set some favorites stations on Zattoo
Found a litte software "telrasing" which creates an M3U Playlist from the zattoo stations - this runs as "server" on my tvh-server on port 5000 by default
I also add the customIP (my TVHeadend server) in telerasing web config at "settings"
Create a new "IPTV automatic Network" in TVH with the url of the teleraising server

After a while I found my favorites within THV and it works within Kodi. So I can see the streams in Kodi now. When I tried to use the record button within Kodi while watching the stream - TVH crashed... ;-)
Next step will be to get EPG data in place, to check if record will be possible than.

Just to give you a hint that your wish about TVH and Zattoo is not exclusive to you... :-)

Have a nice day,

Oliver

kkarsten62

olgr

Hi Oliver,

thanks. This is what I found out already in the last couple of days. I set up Zattoo with LIbreelec/Kodi and Tvheadend.
I realized it with:

Telerising API https://www.kodinerds.net/thread/72127-telerising-api-zattoo-blue-tv-sky-ch-f%C3%BCr-tvheadend-und-vlc-web-app/?pageNo=1
Telerising Installation for Libreelec https://www.kodinerds.net/thread/72127-telerising-api-zattoo-blue-tv-sky-ch-f%C3%BCr-tvheadend-und-vlc-web-app/?postID=686483&highlight=libreelec#post686483
easyepg als Addon https://www.kodinerds.net/thread/75986-proof-of-concept-wip-easyepg-als-addon/

After two days of testing I upgraded my Zattoo "Free" account to the paid account "SMART HD" (6,49 Euro).
Beside to the free channels "German Öffentlich-Rechtlich" which I am receiving and managing via DVB-T2 and Tvheadend I have now all the "German Private" channels via Zattoo in my channel list. And all with EPG :-)

For installation I followed the given Instructions in the threads from above.

One additional trick in Tvheadend. I hacked a bit hard the Tvheadend EPG-Grabber-Modul "Intern XMLTV: tv_grab_file is a ..."
I add the following line of code on top of the file:/storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file

#!/bin/bash
wget -qO - http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_LIBREELEC_SERVER:4000/download/epg.xml
exit 0

All works fine for the moment.

Karl ...

kkarsten62

kkarsten62 One additional trick in Tvheadend. I hacked a bit hard the Tvheadend EPG-Grabber-Modul "Intern XMLTV: tv_grab_file is a ..."
I add the following line of code on top of the file:/storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file
#!/bin/bash
wget -qO - http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_LIBREELEC_SERVER:4000/download/epg.xml
exit 0

This hack will not work after reboot of Libreelec/Kodi/Tvheadend!

I guess I found out the "offical" way of working to activate the easyepg URL in Libreelec:

Activate the EPG-Grabber Intern XMLTV: tv_grab_file is a simple grabber that can be configured through the addon settings from Kodi
Important: Keep the field Extra Parameter empty, no values here!
Do not forget to save the changes, upper left button
Edit the following file: /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/settings.xml
Modify the following two lines:
<setting id="XMLTV_TYPE" default="true">NONE</setting>
To
<setting id="XMLTV_TYPE" default="true">WEB</setting>
And
<setting id="XMLTV_LOCATION_WEB" default="true">http://</setting>
To
<setting id="XMLTV_LOCATION_WEB" default="true">http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_LIBREELEC_SERVER:4000/download/epg.xml</setting>

Reboot Libreelec
Activate in Tvheadend WEB Gui in the lower section the "Debugloglevel" window (Small button on the right) and follow the debug output while rebooting, after a while the output should something like this:

2024-06-15 13:08:59.604 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file: grab /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file
2024-06-15 13:08:59.609 spawn: Executing "/storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file"
2024-06-15 13:08:59.774 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file: grab took 0 seconds
2024-06-15 13:09:00.044 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file: parse took 0 seconds
2024-06-15 13:09:00.044 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file:  channels   tot=   20 new=    0 mod=    0
2024-06-15 13:09:00.044 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file:  brands     tot=    0 new=    0 mod=    0
2024-06-15 13:09:00.045 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file:  seasons    tot=    0 new=    0 mod=    0
2024-06-15 13:09:00.045 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file:  episodes   tot= 3187 new=    0 mod=  277
2024-06-15 13:09:00.045 xmltv: /storage/.kodi/addons/service.tvheadend42/bin/tv_grab_file:  broadcasts tot= 3187 new=    0 mod=    0

Hope it helps.

Karl ...

cnnie

Hi,
sorry for my long delay.
I also uses telraising to get the m3u list. My fault was that I didn't understand how it works.
It must be up an running. So it must be installed on the tvheadend box.
I will go on to setup tvheadend as you both describe.
Maybe I need some help for the EPG. But let's first go on with zattoo.
I'm glad to read that it will work like exspected.

Clemens

cnnie

I'm not really happy.
So telerising works fine. When I add the m3u list in Kodi and chage the setting in telerising to DASH, it works perfect.
Again it's like using the zattoo plugin direct. I need a kodi box as addon to the TV.

So now I tried to get the 3mu list into tvheadend and her I'm stuggling.

What I did so far:

hardware RP4 with fresh rasbian; apt update+upgrade; apt-get install tvheadend
add telerising and add systemd for telerising: up and running; web viewer works; usinf the m3u file in kodi works
reboot...
start config tvheadend:
add IP-Automatic Network

28 muxes found (my fav channels)

but no scanns starts and no services where found:

from here on I started serval different options. I klicked on "use A/V library" in network setting.

now it starts scanning and found some services:

when I set some of the faild muxes to activ, some more services are found., but not for example ARD, ZDF....
But non of them are working. I tried to open them with vlc and an error rises up:

and tvheadend shows:
2024-06-17 20:22:04.305 libav: AVFormatContext: Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1: 154678366654080 >= 154678366512000
2024-06-17 20:22:04.305 iptv: libav: Error muxing packet: Invalid argument
2024-06-17 20:22:06.415 subscription: 022F: service instance is bad, reason: No input detected
2024-06-17 20:22:06.425 tvhpoll: epoll del failed [Bad file descriptor]
2024-06-17 20:22:06.425 mpegts: favorites.m3u - SWR Fernsehen RP in aqw - tuning on IPTV #2
2024-06-17 20:22:06.425 subscription: 022F: "HTTP" subscribing to mux "favorites.m3u - SWR Fernsehen RP", weight: 10, adapter: "IPTV #2", network: "aqw", service: "Raw PID Subscription", hostname="192.168.42.111", client="VLC/3.0.20 LibVLC/3.0.20"
2024-06-17 20:22:15.111 libav: AVFormatContext: Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 1: 154678367662080 >= 154678367520000
2024-06-17 20:22:15.111 iptv: libav: Error muxing packet: Invalid argument
2024-06-17 20:22:16.421 subscription: 022F: service instance is bad, reason: No input detected
2024-06-17 20:22:16.430 tvhpoll: epoll del failed [Bad file descriptor]
2024-06-17 20:22:17.263 webui: Stop streaming /stream/mux/03ae828f15448d71249b61f3e24e321a?ticket=9c6c5db58e1643cbce5bf12ae0b23b924ae023d1, timeout waiting for packets
2024-06-17 20:22:17.263 subscription: 022F: "HTTP" unsubscribing, hostname="192.168.42.111", client="VLC/3.0.20 LibVLC/3.0.20"

Any hints? Did some get this up and running?

cnnie

Update:
After rebotoing (serval times :-) ) and adding new network for one kabel tv tuner, scann there the muxes, create some services, I disable that network and enabled the other network for zattoo and now my 14 zattoo channels were found and they are working.
That means I can watch them with vlc. One little point is to fix. the channels were named "Service01/ FFmpeg".
Now I need to check, if my Panasonic can use them.
Next will be then EPG.
I'm realy a bit unsecure, because I didn't understand what*s going on here.

kkarsten62

Hi Cnnie,

I realized as followed:

I am using Libreelec 11.06 installed on a dedicated small server NUC.
In Libreelec the addon FFmpeg Tools must be installed from Repo Libreelc Addons | Programm-Addons | FFmpeg Tools

I copy the few needed channels manually from the telerising m3u list to a new file /storage/iptv.iptv.m3u on my libreelec server
Example entry of this file:

...
#EXTINF:0001 tvg-id="Eurosport1.de" tvg-chno="25" group-title="National" tvg-logo="https://images.zattic.com/logos/6d0ab0bbdb198c6b6cb0/black/210x120.png", Eurosport 1 HD
pipe://ffmpeg -loglevel fatal -re -i "http://127.0.1.1:5000/api/zde/live/eurosport" -ignore_unknown -map 0:0 -map 0:1 -map 0:2? -map 0:3? -map 0:4? -c:a:0 copy -c:a:1 copy -c:v copy -c:s copy -f mpegts -metadata service_name="Eurosport 1 HD" pipe:1
...

In Tvheadend I created a new DBV-Input | Network. I can't remember if I use as type IPTV Automatic network or IPTV network ?!
Then I scan the network to get the muxes and services. On trick: To re-forcing a scan I change the name from ...iptv.m3u to a none existing dummy filename iptv.m3u1, back and force. This initiate a scan immediately.
Then I mapped the services to the channels.

Hope it helps.
Karl ...

cnnie

Hi Karl,
thank you for your support. SO far I got tvheadend up and running with zattoo.
You are using a local file instead the http url from telerising. The disadvantage is a static station list.
And telerising must be up and running, without the streams are not working.
SO I hope to be behind tvheadend - it runns and vlc can use the tvheadend streams.
:-)
I'm now "working" to connect the Panasonic TV with tvheadend. This is also hard.
I will still work on it and might be come back later here.

Clemens

cnnie

So, I could reproduce the problem when using the telerising http url direct. I.e. you have to use the file:// option Karl shows in his example. Strange but it is so.
Now I checked to get the tvheadend content exortet via satip to the panasonic tv.
Starting point:

I created two networks in tvh. One for telerising/zattto and one for one kable tuner from my fritz box.

here asing the tuner to the network:

here both networks:

I enable the satip server in TVH by using port 554.

I was able to export the fritz network to my Panasonic tv without problems. So basicly this should work.
But when I tried to do the same with the zattoo network, nothing happend.
The reason for that is quite easy. THV has no tuner to export. you can see in the logs and on the TV that there is no tuner provide from TVH to TV. So this ends up in "no channels found" on the TV.
In the SATIP dialog you enter howmuch tuner you would like to export. When exporting the fritz network I selected one DVB-C. When exporting the zatttoo network I changed this to zero, so no tuner to export.
I also tried to export even saying one DVB-C but still not working.
So the question is now: How to export the streams over satip with TVH without any tuner?
My thoughts: Without any "virtual tuner" in TVH it wont work. Because the TV didn't know how to scann the channels.
When unsing the fritzbox tuners direc from TV, the whole dialog changes. I select the fritzbox as SATIP source, select search channel and the TV starts the search.
When using TVH as SATIP source at the TV, select search channel, then a dialog comes uop were I could set/adjust some satelite parameter ......
Any hints?

Clemens

Flole

You do that by specifying the SAT>IP source parameter and specifying a frequency where you want the mux to be injected. You can then simply run a manual scan for that frequency.

cnnie

Nope, didn't work.
I have rebuild from scratch, to be sure that nothing of my serval tests might be still there.
I grap some information from MUX and SERVICES from the fritzbos network.
Then I used the frequenzy for an zattoo stream.
I have set SAT>IP to "1" and tvheadend SAT>IP server runs on 554.
So Panasonic see the tvheaden, with no DVB-C, DVB-S and DVB-T cards provided, channel search found nothing.
When restarting tvheaden SAT>IP server shows
_START: HTS Tvheadend version 4.3-2337_ge855f62e6 started, running as PID:39617 UID:0 GID:44, CWD:/ CNF:/var/lib/tvheadend

Jun 21 20:36:25 tvserver tvheadend[39617]: satips: SAT>IP server announces an empty tuner list to a client 192.168.42.117 (missing tuner settings - global config)
Jun 21 20:36:25 tvserver tvheadend[39617]: avahi: Service 'Tvheadend' successfully established._

And tvheadend always overwrite the manual entered frequenz.....
Is there a chance to get a log from dialog between tvheadend and TV?
I mean this logging is more high level, nothing pointed out what is missing...
Maybe it is not designed to work like I wanted?
Getting helpless... ;-)