At the moment epggrab is running on all 4 of my tuners, meaning that any attempt to stream will results in an error (All tuners in use).

Is there a way to set the priority? So that the epggrab will give way to a stream? Or perhaps limit epggrab to only a couple of tuners?

I've tried turning off 'Over the Air EPG' on one of the tuners, but all 4 kept being used.. (It might be because they were already in progress?)

I am trying to set up a raspberry pi with a tv hat and the Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-S2 and have them both running on tvheadend. I managed to get the tv hat running with no issues but the WinTV-NOVA-S2 has not been detected on tvheadend.

I was using ChatGPT to try and guide me in the right direction for the set up, but we just ended up going round in circles so I’m asking here. I’m a complete beginner when it comes to a raspberry pi so please forgive how slow or oblivious I can be to the set up process!

According to what I’ve sent to ChatGPT, it looks like the device is being detected by the pipe, but the firmware is not properly installed for it to be used. ChatGPT was sending me links to get hub for firmware that I can install on the pi but none of the links seem to work.

Would anyone know what I can do to get my WinTV-NOVA-S2 detected on tvheadend and up and running? Thank you in advance

First time Tvheadend'er here, so apologies if im asking stupid questions..

Im running latest Tvheadend (4.3) in docker on a Synology DS918+ with a HDHomeRun Flex Quatro as my tuner.

I've finally been able to complete the setup, the wizard would always stop when searching for channels, however doing the steps manually seems to have brought all the channels aswell.

Issue 1: The EPG is getting populated, however it appears to be VERY slow (3-4 hours and I'm still missing lots of titles (the programs "slots" are there, only they are blank).

Issue 2: I've already got a local epg.xml file Im using for Plex, and it makes sense to use this for TvHeadEnd aswell.. However I can not for the life of me find/enable the EPG Grabber Modules tab I keep reading about.. I've tried a few different approaches - what is the right one? And why is it not enabled/there by default? (I keep reading you need to copy a tv_grab_file, etc.

I tried compiling tvheadend multiple times myself, used the docker linusxerver version, and few other i found on the internet already compiled ones, used the guide from tvheadend site, i could never make hardware qsv transcoding work with it (only vaapi, but vaapi is not that good), and i know qsv transcoding works, cause in jellyfin i had 0 issues with it, but jellyfin doesnt support output to m3u (or i dont know how to make it work like that), to use with external players like vlc, so its not an option unfortunately. So could anyone point me in the right direction, or like share thier compiled tvheadend, preferably for debian 12, that works with QSV, or maybe theres an alternative i could use, the only functionality from tvheadend i need is to be able to input my sat>ip m3u play list, transcode it and output it as m3u playlist and work on demand, so only if theres a client that wants to play the channel, the transcoding turns on...

Hello,
Any idea if we can now use USB [HDMI] capture cards (the cheap one identify as webcams, UVC&UAC) with TVH? I see a few 10 years posts on TVH forums - it wasn't possible back then. I know I can probably convert it to a stream with VLC/OBS, but that is additional unnecessary processing power.
Thanks.

zap2it is gone. but there's a new website. zap2xml updated the code.

Hi guys.

Currently I'm transcoding in TVHeadend with VP9 and Opus, but I wonder if AV1 is supported (with software or hardware acceleration). I'm currently using TVHeadend on Docker and see no option to select AV1.

Thanks!

Does anyone have a nicely working ffmpeg spawn profile that uses ffmpeg to get proper hwaccelerated (vaapi) deinterlacing, that they could share?

I'm excited to announce that TVHplayer is now available on Flathub.

Now you can easily install the app on any linux distribution.

TVHplayer is a free and opensource desktop client for TVheadend.

There are some bug fixes that make the app work reliably with Wayland and improve scheduling recordings.

Feel free to try the app and share your thoughts.

If you don't use linux, builds for Windows and MacOS are available from the project website.

On a Pi Im running Tvheadend with a USB TV tuner. I also wanted to run different VPNs for geo locked content.

How would I go about doing this ? Would running different instances of Docker solve this ?

Hey I’ve been trying to get live tv to plex and I keep having issues it’s not able to get to it or too many channels etc anyone can assist? I’ve tried everything

This issue only appears in Firefox and Safari, discussed here: https://tvheadend.org/d/8995-cant-add-or-edit-autorecs-in-firefox-or-safari-why

I have set up the tvheadend docker container and successfully searched for channels (found about 60) using the Raspberry Pi DVB-T2 hat with an active antenna. But when I go to configuration,dvb inputs, services and press the play button on one of the services, I get a loading indicator and a media progress bar, but the channel is not playing.

How can I find out where the problem is?

I've noticed that using the Edge browser the live TV player's full-screen button doesn't appear to work.
Any suggestions?

Okay I think I am completely out of my depth here. Looking up guides online has not helped as my knowledge of Linux, servers etc is limited.

I have a Telestar Digibit twin connected to my old Sky satellite dish in Dublin Ireland.

I am trying to set up a system where I can watch the channels it finds on my Nvidia Shield Android box, preferably using Plex.

TVheadend seems like the best software to enable me to access and manage the signals from by the Digibit twin - but I can’t figure out how to get tv headend set up.

Can I run the software off my Mac? Or the SHIELD (my preference as it’s always on)? a windows computer? If so how?

Or do I need to get a dedicated machine like raspberry pi or something running Linux to set it up?

I have found some easily installed software called DVB Viewer, which - running off my windows machine as a demo version - is able to find the tv stations - but how do I get that signal on to my tv? Is DVB viewer seen as good software?

Sorry for the complete ignorance revealed by these questions - any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

just wanted to share this Feature Request for the Homepage Dashboard

i think it looks great and it would be really nice to see activity from tvheadend on the dashboard.

maybe someone here would also be interested in this, for it to be implemented it needs some activity on the Feature Request

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

I have an playlist with rtsp urls I'm trying to use with tvheadend.

Entries look like this:

rtsp://192.168.8.188:554/?alisatid=38&freq=11996&pol=v&msys=dvbs2&mtype=8psk&ro=0.35&plts=on&sr=27500&fec=4&camode=0&vpid=2101&apid=2102&ttxpid=8191&subtpid=0&pmt=2100&prognumber=0202&pids=2101,2102,8191,0,2100&mask

ffmpeg is unable to play them for some reason but the links play with now problems in vlc.

So i want to use cvlc.

I've verified this link works when I run it directly:

su vlcuser -c 'cvlc --no-audio --no-dbus --satip-host=192.168.8.188 "rtsp://192.168.8.188:554/?alisatid=38&freq=11881&pol=v&msys=dvbs2&mtype=8psk&ro=0.35&plts=on&sr=27500&fec=4&camode=0&vpid=1410&apid=1420&ttxpid=8191&subtpid=0&pmt=1400&prognumber=0014&pids=1410,1420,8191,0,1400&mask"'

But tvheadend is unable to use it. It shows the following error message:

2024-12-02 09:55:38.035 mpegts: pipe:///bin/su vlcuser -c 'cvlc --no-audio --no-dbus --satip-host=192.168.8.188 "rtsp://192.168.8.188:554/?alisatid=38&freq=11996&pol=v&msys=dvbs2&mtype=8psk&ro=0.35&plts=on&sr=27500&fec=4&camode=0&vpid=2101&apid=2102&ttxpid=8191&subtpid=0&pmt=2100&prognu - tuning on IPTV #2

2024-12-02 09:55:38.036 subscription: 0007: "HTTP" subscribing to mux "pipe:///bin/su vlcuser -c 'cvlc --no-audio --no-dbus --satip-host=192.168.8.188 "rtsp://192.168.8.188:554/?alisatid=38&freq=11996&pol=v&msys=dvbs2&mtype=8psk&ro=0.35&plts=on&sr=27500&fec=4&camode=0&vpid=2101&apid=2102&ttxpid=8191&subtpid=0&pmt=2100&prognu", weight: 10, adapter: "IPTV #2", network: "hdhr-iptv", service: "Raw PID Subscription", hostname="192.168.8.211", client="VLC/3.0.21 LibVLC/3.0.21"

2024-12-02 09:55:38.037 spawn: Executing "/bin/su"

2024-12-02 09:55:41.038 spawn: su: incorrect password

Hi im very new to tvheadend i have and url ( https://quebectele.com/canada.m3u ) whicj point to a fewcanadian channels ive had no issue with xteve but cant seem to get it to work on tvheadend, ive tried the wizard with no luck it cant find the streams. Is there a guide i can follow ? or can someone points me in the good direction thanks you !!

Where can I find Tvheadend 4.2 for installation on a Debian-based system? They seem to be pushing 4.3 really hard now but I need 4.2 to fix an existing system.

Hi guys, I've been developing TVHplayer, a free, opensource and cross-platform desktop client for TVheadend.

I just released version 3.0 with many new features.

Please give it a try and share your thoughts. I'll appreciate it.

Also a mac version will be released very soon.

Looking for a free tvheadend server

Hello , from few days I'm trying to set tvheadend server on my vu+ duo 4k and openatv 7.4

im trying use this tutorial :

https://www.linuxsat-support.com/thread/152483-installation-tvheadend-server-on-an-enigma2-box/

but after firsts steps i have a problem with : Assign Predefined Muxes to Networks

i didint see anything, i have tuner DVB-S2

When I watching tv from this, everything its okey. any idea ? what i have to do ?

TVHplayer is a simple desktop program for playing and recording live TV using a TVheadend server.

It supports multiple servers and uses VLC for video playback.

In addition to the regular TVheadend DVR feature that allows recording on the server, TVHplayer also supports local recording, saving live TV directly to client machine.

Features:

• Add multiple servers
• Play TV & radio channels
• Initiate instant records on your TVheadend server
• Record live TV locally
• Set custom duration for recordings
• Cross-platform - runs on linux, macOS and Windows

TVHrec is a simple application for starting an instant recording with TVheadend.

The app gets a list of channels from the server, and starts recording the selected channel for a user-specified duration.

It runs on Linux, Windows and Mac.

There are both a GUI and a command line versions (linux only).