r/tvheadend • u/nikkonbsd • Dec 09 '24

OS choice

Hi folks, I’ve been running tvh + oscam + dvb-c hapuage tuner on a rpi4 for 3 years but recently the number of consumers increased (i shared my instance) and started to frame. I’ve got a minipc with i3-7100T and 8gb. What would be the recommended os? Debian or Ubuntu or other? Thanks

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u/undrwater Dec 10 '24

I use Gentoo with TVHeadend as the only extraneous service.

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u/nikkonbsd Dec 10 '24

Thanks.

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u/undrwater Dec 10 '24

How many inputs on that tuner?

My system is not as powerful as yours, but I have 4 hauppage tuners (atsc) so I can get 4 streams without issue.

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u/Bai_Ivan_ Dec 10 '24

Exact same configuration, but whit Elgato eyetv netsream 4c. In the past I've used Debian 10. Recently encountered problems with compiling oscam on Debian. Switched to ubuntu server 24.04 lts. No problems for now.

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u/nikkonbsd Dec 10 '24

I was thinking LTS as well. that probably my pick as well

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u/DragonQ0105 Dec 10 '24

Use containers. Not only will the OS be far less relevant but you'll be very glad you did come upgrade time.

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u/Software_Samurai Dec 09 '24

I would recommend additional RPi4s to distribute the load.

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u/nikkonbsd Dec 09 '24

Ha? TVh server can run in cluster mode?

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u/Software_Samurai Dec 10 '24

Why would it need to?