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How to set up EPG on TVHeadend
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03-05-2020 9:25pm#1
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I have 11425H enabled for UK Freesat and 11778V enabled for EIT. All others are 'Disabled'
I have full 7 day EPG on all but a couple of odd channels I don't really care about, such as BBC Alba.
I have yet to decide if I get any benefit from 11778V scanning.
The only 'oddity' I have is that a few channels do not show the full listing for the 7th day, but appear to stop listing at 7am on that day. Not a big deal ..... just something I noticed and wondered if it was the same for other users.
The ones I noticed are Drama, Drama +1, Sony Crime, Sony Movies +1, Sony Action +1, Channel 4 HD and Paramount +1
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Regarding your problem, all I can suggest is that you revert your Pi to the state it was in when it worked --- remove the Pi TV Hat and test again --- but you have already reduced the problem to its introduction so you have considered that
I have never used a Pi TV Hat so really cannot contribute anything useful, unfortunately.
How good is the PSU for that Pi?
Is it well capable of handling the extra load of the 'hat' and its tuner?0 -
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I don't know if this interests you, but TVH can understand E2 type 'bouquets'.
You can add a bouquet by saving a file and then using the path to that file in the bouquet settings. The file would contain lines like this#NAME My DVB-T #DESCRIPTION RTÉ One #SERVICE 1:0:1:835:3EA:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION RTÉ2 #SERVICE 1:0:1:44E:3E9:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION Virgin Media 1 #SERVICE 1:0:1:44F:3E9:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION Virgin Media 2 #SERVICE 1:0:1:452:3E9:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION Virgin Media 3 #SERVICE 1:0:1:837:3EA:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION TG4 #SERVICE 1:0:1:450:3E9:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION RTÉ Junior #SERVICE 1:0:1:83B:3EA:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION RTÉ One +1 #SERVICE 1:0:1:83F:3EA:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION RTÉ2 +1 #SERVICE 1:0:1:836:3EA:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION RTÉ News Now #SERVICE 1:0:1:451:3E9:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0 #DESCRIPTION Tithe an Oireachtais #SERVICE 1:0:1:44D:3E9:2174:EEEE0000:0:0:0
That is the one I use for Saorview channels.
You can of course mix & match and provided your channels are set to Ignore Providers Channel Number, the list should be in the order of the bouquet, in Kodi.
The #SERVICE numbering is the .png for the channel slightly altered, but the numbers are the same.
The 'NAME is what is displayed in Kodi
You can have several such bouquets, and so long as you provide an 'offset' number for each to start with, they will not overlap.
HINT: Allow plenty space between them in numbering, as those numbers are ignored in Kodi, and channels are numbered there consecutively as they are displayed.
If all that makes no sense let me know and I will try again to explain what I mean. I know it seems a bit garbled
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I don't use channel tags at all, only Bouquet tags, and those so I can confirm the mapping is from my bouquet.
I had, several years ago, gone through the painstaking effort of setting up my preferred channels.
Then discovered that this setup was prone to being lost if something untoward happened to the device.
So I did one more set up and then extracted the information from TVH and parsed it into that example I posted above. I did the same for the Satellite channels.
When channels change frequency a small edit to the .txt file is all that is required to bring it up to date.
I now regularly swap devices for testing and have no fears of setup, as besides getting tuners recognised this list covers everything. I keep the current version on my PC as a backup.
I had/have R-Pis in use and gave up on them as completely unsuited as client devices. They were too slow to handle the graphics as well as requiring the purchase of some codecs. I never bought the later Pis as I had moved on to better and cheaper alternatives.
A fully functioning R-Pi was costing up close to €85 back then .... with a 'hobby' case and no display. An Android box that could be 'converted' to Linux, cost me ~€35, and had proper case and display and came with a suitable remote. It also had a functioning OS to get started. Those also had more powerful CPU/GPU.
One just had to be careful to buy the correct product for the purpose.
That said, a TVH server has very little 'work' to do, so an older Pi should be well capable of doing it.
The more powerful device is required as a client, because of the graphical needs of the UI and also maybe displaying the picture in UHD (4K).
So presently I use an older AMLogic Android device, now running CoreELEC, as a server ..... it never breaks a sweat!
The client devices are similar, just more modern/current, with better hardware. Heck one of them is capable of outputting 8K it seems!
All devices now run CE if Amlogic, and LibreELEC if other CPU.
I did have the server and client on one device but decided that for the cost of an extra device the system was hugely better off with them separated. Of course over time I retired some Amlogic client device and put it to server use, so now have no R-Pi in the system.
The devices will all be kept reasonable updated by replacing client devices as required and using the old client device for server or other use.
My suggestion would be to try your R-Pi as server, so no graphics requirement at all except when being set up.
Put it away out of sight and only access it through SSH or similar. If you have a 'spare' Pi then do a set up for that also on a spare SD card. Now your server is well covered, with a backup should it be required.
Get better devices for clients.
I have found that using the original Android installation on those cheap Asian boxes is less than satisfactory, but would certainly do better than R-Pis up to '3'.
Running Linux they perform very well.
The main difficulty is selecting the correct device from the right source.
Similar looking, and often named, devices can have different hardware which can screw up the best laid plans.
If you want to do things a bit better (more costly doesn't suit this cheapskate) then there are now some very interesting Single Board Computers on the market, which are more powerful again than what I refer to above. They also have consistent hardware so no problems there. I can probably get 4 cheap devices for the cost of one of those, and as longevity is not something to be depended on with media serving, I go the cheap route.
The two original devices I bought - Tanix Tx3 mini x 2 - are still working although one has a faulty display segment, and the other produces distorted graphics output after some time and needs to have Kodi restarted.
They function great as server devices!
This has turned into a long ramble - apologies.
Please ask specific questions and I will try to give answers more to the point ....... if I can. 0 -
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This can be run against a previously set up TVH server ..... only tested on LibreELEC and Coreelec servers, and run from a different Linux distro on the LAN.
Where $ADDY is
username:password@<ip address of TVH server>
and you have used username and password (if not just omit everything before <IP address>)
this command should produce a bouquet file like posted above, where you run it from.curl [url]http://$ADDY:9981/api/channel/grid?limit=999[/url] | sed 's|},{|}\n\n{|g' | sed 's|"name":|#DESCRIPTION |g' | sed 's|"icon":"picon://|#SERVICE |g' | cut -d ',' -f4,5,6 | sort -n -k2 -t :| sed '/./,$!d' | sed 's|.png||g' | sed 's|"||g' | sed 's|_|:|g' | awk -F, '{print $1" "$3}' | sed 's|#|\n#|g' >> MyBouquet.tv
I think that might be dependent on you using picons.
I did look about, at the time, for details on how to construct a bouquet like those Sky or Freesat ones that come with TVH, but searched in vain and settled on the above method.
It works for me ...... might not for others.
I don't know of anyone else using it TBH. 0 -
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Your different output is likely because you are using icon names and not picons for the channel images.
I thought as much which is why I postedI think that might be dependent on you using picons."Have a look at your TVH - Configuration - Channel/EPG - Channels and note which number type is used for the User Icon. That is what you need to use."
You lost me there!
This is what you would see if using picons (click image for larger pic)
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You just found out what I meant about the older Pis ..... just not up to the job as a client device. Well capable as server device though.
The Odroid C4 has a S905X3 which is a very competitive chip presently. I think it will even manage 8K video ... downscaling it.
I have a cheap Android device converted to run CoreELEC here with that chip. It is well capable of smoothly running as a client.
No matter what you get there will always be something better out soon. So I get what will serve me for the present and not worry about trying to future proof it, as I do not believe it possible for these devices.
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A power event took out my HDHomeRun device yesterday.
I have just now succeeded in beating an old Vbox Gateway 3344 device into submission, and adding the two DVB-T tuners to TVH server, pulling the EPG for Saorview from the Vbox.
I have no idea how I managed it but it is working!
So back in business but with two tuners, not four.0 -
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I arranged a refund for the failed HDHR quad ..... they would not replace it.
But of course the replacements are very much more costly now, so I went with a two tuner HDHR.
That arrived today and I immediately put it in service.
In between times I had been using an old TBS PCIe card in an ancient Pentium Dell machine set as Sat>IP for the tuners, and running an old version of LibreELEC (8.?). It performed faultlessly during the time.
Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the new HDHR device.
No matter how I attempted to view the Saorview channels, they were crappy ..... dropped frames, losing sync; corrupted (blocky) display; video disappearing and audio continuing and it even crashed Kodi a couple of times. Those test included DLNA as well as two different methods of connecting TVH to it.
I think my best bet now is to source a used very small PC with a PCIe slot to take the TBS card, and use that as server.
Let me know if you know of a suitable PC ..... have a couple of USFF PCs but they have no PCIe slot
I am really peeved!
/rant
I have not had any ongoing errors or faults with the R1 .... there might be a few continuity errors now and again but nothing that is ongoing, just a few when the tuner locks on.
Then of course I do not 'stream' directly from the R1. TVH is the only connection to the R1 and it manages all the streaming, including recording etc etc. and it is to TVH that the client devices connect.
TVH is quite happy serving out on a 100Mb/s connection.
I have had in excess of 6 clients tuned into 6 different muxes running concurrently without a problem.
Of course they were hardwired and not using wifi, which IMO is unsuited to live streaming.
Let me know if you think of a suitably small PC as my server, thanks.
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I forgot to mention that the Vbox Gateway was just too unreliable ..... probably due to being underpowered.
That caused me to dig out the old Dell Pentium box with the TBS dual tuner card still sitting in it since I put it aside a few years ago.0 -
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