hi all, this is a lot of info to comb through and i feel like i may be missing something.  early posts make it seem that i can use the dvb driver by just adding the entries in the plex parameters, and then maybe it looks like you also have to have something in between for the guide stuff?  i have a hauppage 1609 pcie card installed, added the dvb, nothing is viewable on plex as far as a card goes.  then i try to install some of the recommended items like xteve or tvheadend/tvhproxy but tvheadend i think is the one that fails when trying to install.  wondering if the card is not properly installed with drivers.  any help is appricated.

tower-diagnostics-20240127-1841.zip

4 hours ago, sydeburnz said:

wondering if the card is not properly installed with drivers.  any help is appricated.

the card seems installed, you can try different drivers as Hauppage is ... critical, specially on quad tuners ...

(libreelec or TBS, not DD ...)

 

the card seems supported in plex, and you also added the device /dev/dvb in the plex docker setup ?

next step would be to check the plex logs what happens when scanning and check at the plex forums ...

 

4 hours ago, sydeburnz said:

but tvheadend i think is the one that fails when trying to install.

means ? crash on installation ?

i guess the binhex tvhedend maybe out of support, got the other one installed, scanned, shows channels now.  seems my issues now revolve around user authentication.  i got antennas installed and getting 403 errors.  so the dvb is working, now have to chase the other issues.

tower-diagnostics-20240217-0655.zip

Can't the ms2130 chip be driven?

6 hours ago, alexing said:

Can't the ms2130 chip be driven?

Is this the USB drive you are talking about I assume:

MACROSILICON USB3 Video

 

This plugin is only meant for DVB usage (webcams too) and not for HDMI capture cards.

Hi @ich777 and all!

 

I've a strange issue, well maybe not reading through the fun the is DVB drivers on linux!

 

I have 2 PCIE cards, WinTV-HVR-5525 and TBS6902. Before adding the TBS card I was using LibreElec DVB drivers successfully with the WinTV card. All working perfectly. As I now needed the TBS OS drivers I changed to the TBC-OpenSource package.

 

All cards are now visible and show in TVHeadend but WinTV card does not work. I have the following errors in the Unraid logs:

 

Feb 19 23:24:32 GK-UNRAID kernel: si2168 9-0064: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-si2168-d60-01.fw failed with error -2
Feb 19 23:24:32 GK-UNRAID kernel: si2168 9-0064: firmware file 'dvb-demod-si2168-d60-01.fw' not found

 

Feb 19 23:24:33 GK-UNRAID kernel: m88ds3103 9-0069: Direct firmware load for dvb-demod-m88rs6000.fw failed with error -2
Feb 19 23:24:33 GK-UNRAID kernel: m88ds3103 9-0069: firmware file 'dvb-demod-m88rs6000.fw' not found

 

If I change back to the LibreElec package, my WinTV tuner works again but no TBS card visible. 

 

Any pointers would be great. I hope I haven't missed anything obvious in the topic that would have solved this but I don't think I've seen anything like this.

 

Diagnostics attached with TBS-OpenSource package enabled.

 

Thanks,

GK

 

gk-unraid-diagnostics-20240220-1014.zip

1 hour ago, gearoidocathain said:

If I change back to the LibreElec package, my WinTV tuner works again but no TBS card visible. 

Where is the card visible on the plugin page? Do you use Plex or TVheadend?

 

I see 4 tuners in your recognized in your Diagnostics.

 

What is the output from:

ls -la /dev/dvb

 

Can you post a screenshot from the plugin page with the TBS driver package installed please?

 

Please upgrade to Unraid 6.12.8 before we continuing further troubleshooting and include new Diagnostics in the post after the upgrade.

@ich777 Thanks for the really quick reply.

 

I tried to upgrade Unraid OS but was failing, kept noting that I was already at the newest version although the version was showing as 6.12.4. I downgraded the OS and then upgraded and now I'm on 6.12.8.

 

A quick check of the logs show that the fw seems to be found now!

 

2 minutes ago, gearoidocathain said:

A quick check of the logs show that the fw seems to be found now!

Nice, glad to hear.

I actually added the firmware to the new driver packages so to speak, you will have no issues with Unraid 6.12.8+

 

If you experience any further issues please let me know.

@ich777 I'll get a chance to setup TvHeadend again later and will let ya know how I get on. Thanks a mill, looks like I had some sort of conflict in my setup somewhere

@ich777 Working perfectly again on both cards now! Thanks so much.

Hello @ich777,

 

I need some help with my plex TV tuner setup and my Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-955Q.  I have installed the DVB drivers and rebooted.  It appears that Unraid sees the TV tuner and it works fine in TVheadend.  I have tried everything including putting the extra parameters command in the Plex docker and the modprobe cx23885 command.  Plex and Jellyfin do not see the tuner but Unraid and TVheadend do.  Any ideas?

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 16, 20242 yr by tivodoctor
Problem fixed

1 hour ago, tivodoctor said:

Plex

Is Plex officially supporting this tuner? Anyways, please see the recommended post on top of this thread for a workaround.

 

1 hour ago, tivodoctor said:

Jellyfin

I don't think that Jellyfin supports such Tuners OOB, I use my tuners in combination with TVHeadend to be able to use them in Emby in Jellyfin.

@tivodoctor - You might want to look into getting an HD HomeRun tuner.  I have a couple of these and they work fine in both Plex and Jellyfin.  For the most part I use this with SageTV which is kind of dead now but it was, by far, the best software for recording TV and supported tons of tuners and tuning devices, like IR blasters, etc.

 

You can get used devices pretty cheap on ebay.  Sometimes the wall warts die so you may need to replace a power supply.

 

edit - One more good thing about HD Homerun devices is that they are network devices with ethernet connections.  So you don't plug them in to your PC and you don't have to worry about drivers and passthroughs in a docker/VM.  And you can share them with multiple PCs or other devices.

Edited March 16, 20242 yr by wayner

Hi guys,

 

today i bought a Hauppauge WinTV dual HD USB-Stick (officially supported by plex) and i thought it would be easy to use it with the DVB-Drivers and the plex-Docker...but everything i tried, didn't helped to get it to work.

 

 

 

Although ist is recognized in the plex-docker:

 

 

 

 

 

 

after several minutes the DVB-Stick cannot find any channels:

 

 

The strange thing is, that the same stick is working if the plex-server is running inside a ubuntu-vm on unraid with USB-passthrough and these drivers for european tuners (at the end of the page) installed:

https://hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html

 

Maybe this solutions helps the developer (i don't have enough coding knowledge to do it myself):

 

 

What else can i do to make it work in the plex-docker? Any ideas? 🙂

 

 

Edited March 16, 20242 yr by S.P
addition

7 minutes ago, S.P said:

What else can i do to make it work in the plex-docker? Any ideas? 🙂

Please look at the first recommended post on top of this thread.

4 hours ago, ich777 said:

Is Plex officially supporting this tuner? Anyways, please see the recommended post on top of this thread for a workaround.

 

I don't think that Jellyfin supports such Tuners OOB, I use my tuners in combination with TVHeadend to be able to use them in Emby in Jellyfin.

Thanks for your help @ich777.  I eventually was able to get that tuner working with Plex through TV Headend and Xteve.  Hauppauge has the tuner listed as working with Plex.  https://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_plex.html

2 hours ago, wayner said:

@tivodoctor - You might want to look into getting an HD HomeRun tuner.  I have a couple of these and they work fine in both Plex and Jellyfin.  For the most part I use this with SageTV which is kind of dead now but it was, by far, the best software for recording TV and supported tons of tuners and tuning devices, like IR blasters, etc.

 

You can get used devices pretty cheap on ebay.  Sometimes the wall warts die so you may need to replace a power supply.

 

edit - One more good thing about HD Homerun devices is that they are network devices with ethernet connections.  So you don't plug them in to your PC and you don't have to worry about drivers and passthroughs in a docker/VM.  And you can share them with multiple PCs or other devices.

Thanks @wayner.  I had 2 of the older HD Homeruns that eventually stopped working.  I wish I knew at the time that the adapters die before the units. This Hauppauge tuner was just laying around, so I wanted to try Plex DVR out before I bought another HD Homerun.  Things turned out to be a little more complex than I thought they would be.  Now I have to decide whether to get the 4k Flex with it's DRM problems or the Quatro tuner which may only be useful for a few more years.

25 minutes ago, tivodoctor said:

Hauppauge has the tuner listed as working with Plex

I‘m not entirely sure if everything is working OOB with Plex and DVB.

However I would stick to the solution in combination with TVHeadend and xteve.

Hi Folks, DVB was originally documented as the way to get usb cameras to work with a octoprint container, to allow passing of /dev/video0 or 1. I haven't had much luck with this, and thought I would ask here.

or if there is som better way to test with usb vidoe on unraid.

I'm currently set in dvb to LibreELEC. Is there a better setting for a usb cam? 

6 hours ago, Bushibot said:

I'm currently set in dvb to LibreELEC. Is there a better setting for a usb cam? 

It all comes down if your camera is supported by linux and if it needs additional software to work, can you please post your Diagnostics with the driver installed?

Right so I know it works with some unix installs. I tried it on a mint vm on unraid and mint was able to run any of the cameras fine, just can't get it work with containers.... I have also tried several cameras.

Diag attached

nas-mass-diagnostics-20240507-2213.zip

1 hour ago, Bushibot said:

Right so I know it works with some unix installs. I tried it on a mint vm on unraid and mint was able to run any of the cameras fine, just can't get it work with containers.... I have also tried several cameras.

Do you have the path /dev/videoX (where X stands for a number) on your system?

Your device should be covered by CONFIG_USB_VIDEO_CLASS which is included in the LibreELEC driver package.

 

From what I can see it is detected fine:

May  2 11:12:49 nas-mass kernel: usb 2-1.5: UVC non compliance - GET_DEF(PROBE) not supported. Enabling workaround.
May  2 11:12:49 nas-mass kernel: input: GENERAL WEBCAM: GENERAL WEBCAM as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.5/2-1.5:1.0/input/input24

 

Are you sure that you are passing through the device (not path) /dev/video0 to the Docker container (if the device exists on your host)?

 

However, I would strongly recommend to update to 6.12.10 and it seems that you have another issue because you have a lot of errors in your syslog.

Hi,

 

if i want to replace my tbs tv card with a dd cine 2 do i only have to select the package for DigitalDevices and reboot?

I did it that way. 

Is this looking correct?

Because now I have problems with tvheadend. The tuners have a red dot and i don't know if these are the correct new one or old stuff and i need to update something.

I just want to know if i did everything correct in this plugin.

38 minutes ago, Schicksal said:

Because now I have problems with tvheadend. The tuners have a red dot and i don't know if these are the correct new one

This is a thing that you have to solve in TVHeadend.

 

38 minutes ago, Schicksal said:

I just want to know if i did everything correct in this plugin.

Yes.

 

Hint: You have to actually configure the new tuners in TVHeadend too: