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    [Plugin] Linuxserver.io - Unraid DVB

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, s.Oliver said:

     

    still on 6205 (need to sell that one first) ;-)

     

    do we have to expect bigger changes or non-working situations? got a few friends which will get an unRAID/TVH-solution soon.

     

    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. 

    6.4.0_rc14 Hard Drive Errors

    in General Support

    Posted

    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

     

    6.4.0_rc14 Hard Drive Errors

    in General Support

    Posted

    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.

    6.4.0_rc14 Hard Drive Errors

    in General Support

    Posted

    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

     

    Problems Passing Through Tuner Card to VM

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted · Edited by Rick Gillyon

    11 hours ago, saarg said:

    If sagetv supports sat/IP, then sagetv will tell tvheadend which channel to tune. 

    When you set tvheadend as the sat/IP source in sagetv it should get a channel list from tvheadend. 

    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. :o

    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!

    [Support] Linuxserver.io - TVHeadend

    in Docker Containers

    Posted · Edited by Rick Gillyon

    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... O.o

    Problems Passing Through Tuner Card to VM

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted

    23 minutes ago, saarg said:

    Well... We have an oscam and tvheadend docker ;-) Tvheadend can be a sat/IP server if SageTV supports it. 

    I have not tried SageTV, but it needs a plugin to connect to oscam? 

    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.

    [Plugin] Linuxserver.io - Unraid DVB

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, CHBMB said:

     

    Passing through is the VM equivalent.  One thing to try, is use a stock Unraid build, not a DVB one, see if that makes a difference.  It shouldn't as you're stubbing it.  But worth a shot

    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. O.o

    [Plugin] Linuxserver.io - Unraid DVB

    in Plugin Support

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, CHBMB said:

     

    Sorry mate, I haven't passed through a tuner for a very long time.  This is the only info I have on passing through a TV tuner to Windows.  When I did it, it worked fine, but that's 2 and a half years ago now.

     

    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?

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    Problems Passing Through Tuner Card to VM

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted

    Just now, saarg said:

     

    A little bit more info would be nice. We might manage to find alternatives. 

    :) 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?

    Problems Passing Through Tuner Card to VM

    in VM Engine (KVM)

    Posted

    Noob here, I have set up an unRAID server mainly as a PVR, to host my SageTV server. Working so far.

    But I need to run one of my tuners under Windows 7, it's a TBS 6205 for DVB-C. So I've been working on this for a day, and still struggling. It passes through but doesn't work.

     

    Steps so far. lspci: 

    05:00.0 Multimedia controller: TBS Technologies DVB-S2 4 Tuner PCIe Card

    lspci -n: 

    05:00.0 0480: 544d:6178

    syslinux.config section (also attached): 

    label unRAID OS
  menu default
  kernel /bzimage
  append pcie_acs_override=downstream pci-stub.ids=544d:6178 vfio_iommu_type1.allow_unsafe_interrupts=1 initrd=/bzroot

    VM Config section (also attached): 

        <hostdev mode='subsystem' type='pci' managed='yes'>
      <driver name='vfio'/>
      <source>
        <address domain='0x0000' bus='0x05' slot='0x00' function='0x0'/>
      </source>
      <address type='pci' domain='0x0000' bus='0x00' slot='0x06' function='0x0'/>
    </hostdev>

    The VM starts, shows the card, driver installs (same version I use on physical machines), all looks fine but when I try to access the card I get errors. ProgDVB: "CScannerManager::CreateEnvironment tuner type error"; SageTV: "There was a capture error in playback. Details: ERROR (-4,0x80004002): There was an problem using the capture device. Please be sure you have the latest drivers installed for your capture device, and that they are installed correctly."

     

    Any ideas? I'm attaching the SageTV log, syslinux and VM log and xml. Hopefully someone can help me get this working...

     

    Rick

    vmlog.txt

    sagetv_0.txt

    syslinux.cfg

    vm.xml

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