2019-04-11, 16:56
Been using my Server for TV Headend for while - we have been having weird issues with the telly over the last few weeks - this is for the UK readers - everything is fine when Phil and Holly are on, then pixilation galore if trying to watch Loose Women (it's a daytime TV show in the UK moderators!!!) and Judge Rinder (Judge Judy ala UK).
It is also compounded by the fact that where I live has a strong Freeview signal - which can hinder signal quality, these include living near an industrial estate (I live near one), local radio station (I live near one) or live too near the transmitter (yup you guessed it!) - The aerial atennuator is installed so that ruled that out.
The HD Homerun was next to 2 extension cables, a Smart Home hub and a BT business router. So I moved the tuner, thinking that might be the issue, it wasn't! (probably didn't help though!)
What was the issue was that TV Headend's VM virtual Hard Disk and my Windows 10 VM virtual Disk was on the same Physical Disk - so there was a bottle neck! Basically what it was I stop watching Phil and Holly - and go into the 'office' and work, then issues started! Didn't think that I was the cause!!!
So I found a USB stick, added TVH via Librelec on the living room LibreElec instance - and job fixed (YAY). So we can now watch daytime TV again! (please don't 'judge' us!)
Lesson learned here - Don't throw everything at the server - even if it can (on paper that is) cope!
It is also compounded by the fact that where I live has a strong Freeview signal - which can hinder signal quality, these include living near an industrial estate (I live near one), local radio station (I live near one) or live too near the transmitter (yup you guessed it!) - The aerial atennuator is installed so that ruled that out.
The HD Homerun was next to 2 extension cables, a Smart Home hub and a BT business router. So I moved the tuner, thinking that might be the issue, it wasn't! (probably didn't help though!)
What was the issue was that TV Headend's VM virtual Hard Disk and my Windows 10 VM virtual Disk was on the same Physical Disk - so there was a bottle neck! Basically what it was I stop watching Phil and Holly - and go into the 'office' and work, then issues started! Didn't think that I was the cause!!!
So I found a USB stick, added TVH via Librelec on the living room LibreElec instance - and job fixed (YAY). So we can now watch daytime TV again! (please don't 'judge' us!)
Lesson learned here - Don't throw everything at the server - even if it can (on paper that is) cope!
