Using TVHeadend w OpenATV & ipremote plugin

Sam

Background: I have a spare LNB port and want to add a single channel PVR using TVHeaded via IPTV*

I'm trying to use TVHeadend (have tried 4.2 & 4.3) on LibreElec (Kodi) 12.0.1 with a ZGemma H2.S running OpenATV 7.5 with the iptvremote plugin (v1.08).

There's no issue if I just want to stream from the ZGemma to using the IPTV Simple Client. I get all the channels, can stream, and have an EPG.

However, I wish to use my LibreElec box for recording and so far have been unable to get it (w TVHeadend) to work.

I haven't been able to get scanning an Automatic IPTV Network to work properly, nor have I been able to find step-by-step instructions guaranteed to work.

When I create the (IPTV Automatic) network and hit Force scan I get all the channels, one mux per channel, but no services.

I am not sure that TVHeadend is the problem, but the IPTV Simple Client "just working" makes me wonder about this.

I've seen advice that I need to create each mux manually. Surely this can't be true?

I have seen references to other IPTV plugins but understand that they're for streaming content from the Internet, which is not what I want to do. Have I missed something?

Do I need to use a specific combination of OpenATV (or other Enigma2 OS) + plugin? What do I do about an EPG?

NOTE

*I originally tried using Telestar Digibit Twin. This worked well and was easy to set up. However, the device failed within a few days and I have since read reviews online that lead me to think that a replacement would likely fail too and that I should find another solution.

Sam

Update: Yes, it was true. The solution was to enable each channel individually after a failed scan and wait for it to be recognised. I resolved the EPG with the XMLTV setting. The right plugin on the ZGemma has iptvremote.

Chris G

This isn't documented, but I always uncheck “scan after creation” and set “service ID” to “1” on an IPTV network.
These options stop TVH trying to scan/check each URL and just creates all the services assuming they work.
In my opinion, this should be the default behaviour.

Then to map, enable “create bouquet” on the network.
Go into the bouquets tab and enable the newly created bouquet and chooses your mapping options.
Now whenever the playlist changes, it's all updated automatically.

Sam

should have read "was iptvremote".

OH! Wow, that would have saved me so much time--and may do if I get back to TVHeadend. Many thanks. In the end I gave up for now and just abandoned trying to use TVHeadend and iptvremote. I switched to using the Enigma2 client and stuck a USB memory stick in the set top box for now. This works fine, but it means I need to use DemonEditor to manage my bouquets on the ZGemma, which is ok, and I am not recording where I want (on a hard drive in my study).

When I started this I didn't have any plans to retire TVHeadend but somewhat coincidentally I just retired my main PVR which has been running it for many years. I'd have kept it going if a decent Sat>IP router was readily available.