Rick Gillyon

I have two TBS 6205, both are seen by TVHE just fine, but in mine the new card went in at 1-4 and moved the old card to 5-8 - depends on the order the system sees the slot I think. Just needed a bit of reconfiguring for me.

You need to add this in Extra Parameters: --device=/dev/dvb/

I get these messages in my log for both cards (TBS 6284 TBS 6205): Jan 31 12:17:01 unRAIDpvr kernel: TBSECP3 driver 0000:04:00.0: DVB: adapter 3 frontend 0 frequency 0 out of range (42000000..870000000) It all seems to work okay. Anything to worry about?

Don't do that, set up tvhe and opendct Dockers to use with the sagetv docker. Works perfectly.

What cards do you have? Are you tuning directly in Sage or using a backend?

Are you sure you need a 6209? I was thinking of it but when I checked, TVHE only tunes a mux once and serves as many streams as it needs from that mux. We only have 6 muxes and only 3 in common usage, so even though I have up to 8 things recording from different channels, I never use more than 3 tuners anyway. A huge improvement over my last software. 6.4.0 running well here.

Wow, that's a lot of money in spares! When I built my system I made a cost decision to go with a 4TB parity drive, which I'm sort of regretting now. I'll pick up a spare in Jan when I have more money... when I MIGHT have more money.

Is this error expected too? Does this just mean unRAID is reporting the drive's SMART errors despite it not being in the array any longer? Event: unRAID device sdf SMART health [198] Subject: Warning [UNRAIDPVR] - offline uncorrectable is 1 Description: WDC_WD40EZRX-00SPEB0_WD-WCC4E1962806 (sdf) Importance: warning

Thanks, but if I shut it down for 4 days there would be trouble, as it hosts SageTV. Lots of complaints. So you have a brand new, tested drive waiting? I'll have to think about that when I've recovered from the pain of buying this one. It just seems wrong to have a warranty running down with the gear not being used.

Running with it unassigned, and now have this message, is this normal? Named disk is the one removed... Event: unRAID device sdf SMART health [197] Subject: Warning [UNRAIDPVR] - current pending sector is 1 Description: WDC_WD40EZRX-00SPEB0_WD-WCC4E1962806 (sdf) Importance: warning

Cheers. It has the most free space, so the array will write and read it more than the others I suppose. I'll unassign and cross my fingers...

Thanks. So what would be lowest-risk? Leaving the faulty drive in place, array protected by parity, or parity emulating the disk?

Thanks. It'll take a few days for the replacement to get here, what's the safest way to operate in the meantime? I'd prefer the array not to use that disk, but retain the data. If I spin it down will it serve the data from parity until the new disk goes in?

Thanks for the help. Extended test (report attached) failed with: # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 50% 28803 4018645416 I take it this means it needs replaced? WDC_WD40EZRX-00SPEB0_WD-WCC4E1962806-.txt

One of the hdds in my array is showing 464 errors. Diagnostics and Smart Report are attached, can anyone help me out with what I should do? The errored drive is a 3-yr-old drive from my old system which I pre-cleared before adding to the array, been in the array a couple of weeks. unraidpvr-diagnostics-20171126-2149.zip WDC_WD40EZRX-00SPEB0_WD-WCC4E1962806-.txt

No, SageTV doesn't support sat/IP, just tuners and a very limited implementation of network encoders. I would be relying on a SageTV plugin in a docker to handle it, but I don't think it does. I think I'd have to set up a tuner/lineup in Sage for every channel. We'll see if one of the plugin guys answers my question. Loving tvheadend btw, don't even need oscam! Update: All now working with tvheadend as back end to SageTV. Hopefully it's stable... Thanks for the help!

Apparently I need to run "tv_grab_zz_sdjson --configure" to configure my grabber, but I can't find it... Can someone point me in its direction? Edit: Worked it out: docker exec -it tvheadend tv_grab_zz_sdjson --configure It's a whole new world...

Only worry is how SageTV tells tvheadend what to tune. I'm looking into it...

Yeah, OSCam was never part of the program. So I could set up tvheadend with all tuners, send them via sat/IP to Sage (well, actually another Sage plugin)? It seems like a neater solution than non-working VMs anyway. I'll check it out.

Thanks, I'll try. The way things are going I'll have built this machine as my pvr but all the tuners will still be in the old one.

Thanks, I had looked at that thread along with hundreds of others, but they all seem outdated now. If you stub the devices they are selectable in the gui setting up the VM, and it puts the XML in for you. Unless it means I shouldn't stub but just put the XML in? There's no equivalent to the "--device=/dev/dvb/" for VMs? "

Sorry. UK cable TV (V1rgin Media) paid sub is scrambled, goes into TBS 6205 DVB-C. Current Windows 10 system uses SageTV and a SageTV plugin (DVB Decrypter) with OSCam and card sharing. I don't really want to move from SageTV. Have set up this new unRAID system with SageTV Docker, running well for DVB-T with TBS 6284, but can't just add the TBS 6205 because it's scrambled and the OScam plugin is Windows-only. So my idea was to set up a VM with another SageTV Windows setup to use as a network encoder for my main unRAID one. Another option would be to use other software with oscam in unRAID to provide a network encoder, but I haven't been able to work that out. Anything else I can tell you?

I'm not sure there's any other way I can get my cable feed decrypted and into SageTV, I currently do it with a windows-only SageTV plugin. If I could figure out a way to do it without Windows I would!

I think maybe I posted this: in the wrong place. Is anyone here able to help me out before I chuck my new machine out the window...

Can anyone help out with this? I'm attaching a syslog (working stuff out slowly). Anything else I can provide to help solve this? unraidpvr-syslog-20171030-1933.zip