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sengsational Are you running LE on a Pi? I'd presumed you were given your other thread in the Pi forum.
There's a TvH server addon you can install from the LE repo on the Pi. You don't need any other device except something on your network with a web browser to access it and set it up (on port 9981 on your Pi, so
http://pi.ip.address.here:9981).
It runs fine on a Pi3 and a Pi4 - I know as that's where i run mine...
(2020-02-13, 23:34)DarrenHill Wrote: [ -> ]@sengsational Are you running LE on a Pi?
Yes. You have given me hope that I can get this to work!
I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
(2020-02-13, 23:34)DarrenHill Wrote: [ -> ]....
It runs fine on a Pi3 and a Pi4 - I know as that's where i run mine...
And now it's running on mine! Thanks for the expertise / guidance.
As a wrap-up for the possible lurker with the old HDHR-US or HDHR3-US hardware that just wants to watch live TV, here's what I did.
- Bought a Raspberry Pi3 kit on Amazon (I bought a CanaKit with case and power supply).
- Used the "LibreELEC USB-SD Creator" and put "LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-9.2.0.img.gz" on a 32 GB SD card (one I had already). Note: starts as 511MB partition, but configures to use all 32GB on first boot.
- Connected the Pi3 using an HDMI cable (I had already) to a TV.
- Connected a USB mouse and USB keyboard to the Pi3 (that I had already).
- Connected the Pi3 using an Ethernet cable (that I had already) to my house's intranet, and that already has my HDHR-US units (2x)
- Powered on the Pi3, booting up Kodi.
- Downloaded and installed TvHeadend server and client using the Kodi add-on functionality.
- At a separate computer on my intranet, used a web browser to the TvHeadend server (which was left running on the Pi3) on 192.168.3.313: 9981 (your IP will be different).
- TvHeadend found the existing HDHR-US units.
- Ran the TvHeadend wizard through to the end. Channels scanned and mapped. User names and passwords defined. Default user deleted.
- Back at the Kodi interface, went into my add-ons, configuration for TvHeadend server, put in 192.168.3.313, tvh_user and tvh_pa55word (created through the web interface). (127.0.0.1 might work, but I had an authorization snag and that's one thing I changed).
- Rebooting Kodi, going to TV then channels then selecting a channel causes it to start playing. The channel guide is also populated from the OTA data.
Glad to hear it, and thanks for the walkthrough.
As a bonus, if you set up some suitable storage space (either a connected USB stick/drive or a mapped network drive) you can also use TvH to record. Set the path to the storage space in Configuration > Recordings > Recording file options in the TvH dashboard, then you can use either the EPG in Kodi, the EPG in the TvH dashboard or a 3rd party app to set up recordings (which you can playback through Kodi).
For the app, if you've got an Android phone or tablet I can recommend
TvHClient as a great way to set recordings.