Raspberry Pi TVheadend Setup HDHomeRun Alternative

Hello in video i'm using two PCTV 292e USB Dongles for setup plus playback of Live TV will also work with other devices like iPad via App
Raspberry Pi OS Lite
www.raspberrypi.org/downloads...
Raspberry Pi Imager
www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
Putty
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~s...
Update Pi
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
Install TVheadend
sudo apt install tvheadend
Setup
Raspberry Pi Address:9981
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#Plex #TVheadend #Pi4

[@neverfindourway]

I like your tutorial. Every Step is easy to follow. Thank you very much. Now I know that I will use TVheadend on raspberry OS because It looks great

[@mqthieu]

thanks for this ! I didn't know this soft was existing, I'm going to try this rig ht now

[@Eyerex]

Only found out myself the other week as was thinking of buy a HDHomerun to add a TV tuner to my network then found TVheadend

[@malolanonimus776]

Best video man

[@yorkshireplumbing]

Used a couple of your videos to get my Pi TV Hat up and running through Kodi with logos, top man, thanks. Hit a roadblock where the transponders for my area in TVHeadend are seriously out of date, so I had to do a lot of dancing to get that bit fixed!

[@Eyerex]

Bit of a pain with some outdated regions luckily i only had to add one to my setup to get all channels ps did you delete your post about Picons as see notification but no post ?

[@yorkshireplumbing]

@@Eyerex I think I noticed that behaviour as well, where I edited one mux, and the others just seemed to auto populate. Re picons, yes, but I FTPed in and looked in the dir and the files were missing - I remember something went wrong with the unzip. Just unzipped and transferred again. I remember doing all this about 15 years ago for cable TV on the old linux based DBOX 2s 😅. Currently chasing down HD channel picture quality issues related to Kodi. On my PC, the stream on VLC is 100% perfect, on the same PC in Kodi though, it isn't, there's slight ghosting on panning scenes - looks sort of fuzzy - and on channels like QVC there's an annoying flicker around static text and graphics on the screen. It's something to do with the 50Hz transmission and the 60Hz refresh rate of the TV... probably a quirk of Kodi, because like I say, VLC has no problem dealing with it.

[@Eyerex]

@@yorkshireplumbing Good to hear you got Picons working, i've only ever used Kodi a couple of times to see what it's like and couldn't get on with it so use TVheadend Apps on all my devices ie iOS and Android which work really well plus TV on Kodi feels clunky

[@yorkshireplumbing]

@@Eyerex Aye, I like the EPG on Kodi but it is pretty slow for the TV. The UI on the headend web interface really does my head in though, it's fine for setting up purposes but for everyday use it's no good. Not sure what other options are available for WIndows 10. I hear Windows 11 will have much better support for Android APKs and the Linux sub system natively supports graphical UI programs, so that will open up a few more options.

[@Eyerex]

@@yorkshireplumbing I have a TV Dongle plugged into my Windows PC and use DVB Viewer software for playback, it's not free but you can add a m3u channel playlist from TVheadned into it to watch live TV on the PC plus set timers to record TV to the PC via DVB Viewer EPG (recordings will not show up within TVheadend apps)

[@Synthonizers]

masterclass

[@isactucker3788]

when you at the raspberry pi imager press and hold control then shift and x. You are welcome :).

[@boink800]

Brilliant video. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Do you ever record tv, just using the iPlayer?

[@Eyerex]

Have a look at Get iPlayer :)

[@boink800]

@@Eyerex get_iplayer does not do live streaming. Streamlink works very well to record from live streaming.

[@adrianp5667]

tvheadend + piv-hole server

[@lawrencedrew7633]

Great tutorial, may i ask, why are you using two dongles?

[@Eyerex]

Yes two PCTV tripleStick 292e but going to swap for a Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD when i have the funds

[@methanoid]

Q1: never used TVheadend but wondering if I was to run it as a Docker, are the TV tuners drivers provided by HostOS or inside the docker (host would be Windows)

[@Eyerex]

Sorry i've never used Docker before so not sure

[@methanoid]

@@Eyerex No worries... your videos are very helpful and inspired me to dig out a Pi2 and TVhat to have a play...

[@stanparker6673]

How did you connect the Pi to your network to get the IP address for Putty? I understand why you have SSH file for Putty, but did you change something in config to connect to your network?

[@Eyerex]

It's connected via ethernet if you want to do via WiFi and have it connect at start up you can edit the config file watch this video at 3.10 kzbin.info/www/bejne/apDUaY2HiL6qiJo

[@mews9]

Hello, I want to start off by saying your tutorials are excellent and easy to follow. All credit to guys like you who voluntarily take time to post helpful tutorial videos. I started looking into videos of tvheadend setup and stumbled on your chanel. I've recently bought myself a raspberry pi 4 and I've followed your steps to setting up the os on the pi and setting up open media vault + tvheadend server. Everything is working except I can not get my recordings to work in tvheadend server. I have created a shared folder with read write privileges and samba enabled in open media on a 1tb Hdd attached to the pi. I've put in the file path of folder in recordings and still can't get a successful recording. Any help with my issue would be greatly appreciated!

[@Eyerex]

Hello can you get access to the folder your using for your recordings via a PC or other ?

[@mews9]

@@Eyerex yes I can. I can see it from my laptop os windows 10. I can also add the folder in file manger on kodi front end. The fielpath I'm entering is like smb://local host ip adress/filename. My drive is using file system ext 4.

[@Eyerex]

@@mews9 Have you tried \\ipaddress\folder name. If you right click on the folder within Windows then Properties it should show a Location address

[@mews9]

@@Eyerex I haven't tried it that way. I will do when I get home and report back.

[@Eyerex]

@@mews9 Hello think i was wrong last time as just setup a USB drive and to mount mine i used /mnt/USB1/ which writes to root of the USB drive, USB1 is the mount point of the drive for me it will be different for you

[@GeorgeTJ]

Can you use 2-3 TV tuners and play TV to 2-3 different clients at the same time? Is there any additional software to achieve that?

[@Eyerex]

You can use as many tuners you want and stream to all the TV's you own at the same time without any problems

[@GeorgeTJ]

@@Eyerex Thanks for the clarification mate. Do I need to set anything within TVHeadend's settings to do so?

[@Eyerex]

@@GeorgeTJ I've used a couple of tuners in the past and didn't have to change any settings it just worked

[@GeorgeTJ]

@@Eyerex Thank you. Much appreciated. Keep these great videos coming :)

[@MrMuzza008]

Only works on the 32bit OS. I tried it on the 64bit beta OS and it did not even start to install as it said it is missing some dependencies.

[@An.Individual]

he uses raspberry Pi OS which is 32 bit (as in April 2021 anyway)

[@barneyDcaller]

Is it necessary to have it connected to a pc? Can we use the app via raspberry pi directly and use as a stand alone tv?

[@Eyerex]

If i'm right in thinking you want to setup TVheadend and have the Pi plugged into the TV ? just not sure how you will control but will have a read. Have done a video how you can setup a Pi and TVheadend and have it run as it's own little server which doesn't need to be plugged into a router (will work in a middle of a field via Phone or Tablet)

[@Eyerex]

WARNING!!!!!!! if your use a Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD and are thinking of using with a Raspberry Pi4 and Raspberry Pi OS DON'T as you will see a mass of errors ie Continuity and Data down to "write to i2c device at 0xcX failed with unknown error" in Logs only way to fix is to use LibreELEC as a backend then install TVheadend or use a Pi3 B+ which works perfectly

[@philmordecai]

This video may be 2 years old but I am curious to know which usb TV tuner device you used for this build.

[@Eyerex]

I use a hauppauge WinTV-dualHD with a Pi3 ps be warned you may see picture errors if using a Pi4 and PiOS

[@philmordecai]

@@Eyerex Thank you. I have a single tuner setup with a TV Hat module and the picture is great, but it doesn't appear to be possible to piggyback more than one, which is a shame considering it is also relatively inexpensive, so it would need to be paired with one or more usb tuners.

[@Eyerex]

@@philmordecai Is strange that the TV Hat is only a single tuner maybe to keep the cost down as was thinking of buying one when they first came out as it would be nice having everything within a case

[@slayerkoditv]

Mate not sure if you can help me out but I'm having issues getting streams to play on my pi zero. My setup: pi zero w with tvhat running tvheadend in the UK (Freeview) So I've been battling with this for weeks at this point to get streaming working on the pi zero itself, I've got as far as SD channels are scanned in but no HD (apparently there should be 10 in my area), I can access them on my phone using tvhclient and play with VLC player as external player and also have recordings setup and epg working. When I try to access this using VLC on the pi itself it asks for username and password, I enter this and it doesn't play, I've tried installing Kodi and tvh add-on, This finds my channels and recordings but when I try to play a channel 19/20 it will just show a blank screen witht he timer going up (sometimes with audio but not all the time and also 5-7/20 it will fully crash Kodi and have to reset pi) I have already got my mpeg2 license activated aswel, I don't really know any other way to get this to work and I don't know why that 1/20 it will play. I even tried using every iptv app and kodi on my Xbox one to see if It would work but none of these worked, they got the channels (apart from Kodi) but same thing black screen when trying to play doesn't matter whether I choose the local m3u file or remote URL it doesn't seem to work. But works consistently on my phone on various apps, dreamplayer, tvhclient and the other tvhclient app, and also works on VLC on my pc. If you have anytime to help me with this I'd appreciate it very much as it's been weeks at this point and not sure what else to try. I just want TV in my bedroom lol Thanks

[@Eyerex]

So everything works fine on your iPhone ie live playback and recordings via tvhclient ?. how did you get the m3u file was it like this ipaddress:9981/playlist/channels.m3u?profile=tvheadend

[@slayerkoditv]

@@Eyerex so yes everything works with tvhclient, I use android though not iPhone. Yes that's how I get the m3u, exactly like that. username:password@ipaddress:9981/playlist/channels.m3u?profile=pass

[@Eyerex]

@@slayerkoditv I use Dream Player for Android on my Tablet and Firecube have you tried that play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.cyberdream.dreamepg.tvh.tv.player&hl=en&gl=US

[@slayerkoditv]

@@Eyerex what I mean is, I can have no problems accessing the channels on my android device - all apps work. I'm trying to get this working on the pi zero itself (where tvheadend serves from) or get it running on my Xbox one so I can view on my tv

[@Eyerex]

@@slayerkoditv Ok, so you have VLC installed on the Zero which is also running the TVheadend server to playback via the m3u playlist, will do a setup tomorrow and keep everything local to the one device

[@martkt10]

Would this work with a Raspberry Pi TV HAT ?

[@Eyerex]

Yes same setup

[@martkt10]

@@Eyerex where are the recordings on the pi or the nvidia shield ?

[@martkt10]

@@Eyerex Opps forgot Thank you

[@Eyerex]

@@martkt10 Think with a Shield you will need an App to access recordings, on a Amazon Fire i use Dream Player TV

[@Eyerex]

@@martkt10 PS you can access your recordings by going to the Digital Video Recorder tab then Finished Recordings via the TVheadend web page

[@An.Individual]

Which Pi is this? Do you know which Pi's work?

[@Eyerex]

I've had it working fine on a Pi2, 3 and 3B and should work fine on a 4

[@ice_man1117]

Try kodi