Anyone had success installing Tvheadend on unRAID?

[olympia]

That would be really cool.

[BRiT]

Never heard of it.

 

[olympia]

You never heard of any success or never heard about Tvheadend?

 

Anyhow, Tvheadend is (one of) the most recommended TV backend to use with XBMC (XBMC Live will also include this).

 

However, since unRAID is the only machine which is on 24/7, certainly that would be the most appropriate place to host such a functionality. Also because of the scheduled recordings.

 

So, yes, I've also searched the forums and no hit, but would be really great to sort this out, especially because (I think) TV integration of media centers will become more and more popular soon.

 

...and if we are looking at unRAID as a Media Server, than we could say functioning as TV backend as well is close(I know this statement can be argued) to the core functionality. ...but at least not more far than running YAMJ on unRAID which has been greatfully picked up by limetech as well for example.

[DocBlock]

I looked at the project a little, and I think your main issue is going to be the lack of kernel driver support in unRAID for the TV tuner devices. Assuming that you rebuild a kernel to have the extra driver support, it probably wouldn't be that hard to build a Slackware .txz package for tvheadend. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a slackware development environment to give it a try.

 

In any case, it isn't going to be a simple plug & play for this or anything which requires additional kernel support beyond what is included by unRAID. Something like YAMJ doesn't interface with hardware and doesn't have any special kernel requirements.

[prostuff1]

I looked at the project a little, and I think your main issue is going to be the lack of kernel driver support in unRAID for the TV tuner devices. Assuming that you rebuild a kernel to have the extra driver support, it probably wouldn't be that hard to build a Slackware .txz package for tvheadend. Unfortunately, I don't currently have a slackware development environment to give it a try.

 

In any case, it isn't going to be a simple plug & play for this or anything which requires additional kernel support beyond what is included by unRAID. Something like YAMJ doesn't interface with hardware and doesn't have any special kernel requirements.

 

Agree with the above comments.  I looked at the project also and came to the conclusion that it would be easy to get the program running but the tuner cards would be hard to get working.

[olympia]

Ah, yes, I forgot about that.

 

So even if a tuner card is supported by the kernel by default, this support has been most probably removed from unRAID kernel. Is that correct?

[prostuff1]

Ah, yes, I forgot about that.

 

So even if a tuner card is supported by the kernel by default, this support has been most probably removed from unRAID kernel. Is that correct?

 

Yes, that is a high possibility.  Limetech has stripped out unnecessary stuff to keep the install small and fast.

[olympia]

I wonder if there is a chance to get some well-known back, but I have some doubts

[DocBlock]

Limetech provides all the information necessary to build your own kernel with the drivers you would like, but I wouldn't hold my breath to have something like TV tuner card driver support added to unRAID, as I imagine many folks (myself included) would consider this outside the scope of unRAID.

 

For reference, I wanted to use 802.1q VLAN tagging, but unRAID didn't support this by default. I did build a kernel with this support, and that process wasn't terribly painful. But it's only of use to me, not the general unRAID community.

[olympia]

I started to play with compiling a custom kernel with the missing dvb card driver, but without so much luck yet.

 

I've got the custom kernel compiled with the necessary driver enabled, but it still doesn't get detected.

I have a CX24116/CX24118 based Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-HD-S2 dvn card, so I enabled multimedia support and CX24116 somewhere underneath (and also I2C support which seemed to be the only dependency) and compiled the kernel and the modules.

 

The same card working flawless under Ubuntu.

 

Can anyone help me what else should be potentially configured into the kernel to make this work?