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Thanks Noggin - I didn't understand at all. I looked up how to get the unofficial repo - but it says to install that via samba which is another thing I don't understand.
Why can't there just be tv that works with Kodi out the box? The rest of it is so awesome.
So am I correct in thinking I need to... figure out how to get samba working, when I've done that use it to install the unofficial repo onto the pi, then after that get the tv headend back end installed from a zip within Kodi. After that, I can use the other pc to navigate to the web page that my pi has for tv headend (yes the one thing that is working is the internet on the pi). Then I can configure my tuner. Then set up a tv network to associate with the front end. After that just start up the front end and that's it!
Maybe someone would like to write a step by step how to on how to go from no tv all the way to tv?
Don't worry, I'm smiling, kinda!
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Hmmm... well I got the unofficial repo going, just waiting for my new dual tuner to arrive - I figured if I was going to this much trouble, might as well have what I really want.
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2015-02-16, 21:45
(This post was last modified: 2015-02-16, 22:13 by JohnyLondon.)
oh... 9981... I've now got the tvheadend page but there was no tab for TV Adaptors - until I clicked DVB Inputs. Two tuners are showing though they dont sound like mine (Dibcom7000 or some such). It also shows "no verified access (login)" just to the right of the tabs, which is not shown in the how to screen shots. I tried logging in but it's not happy just leaving the boxes blank (for user/password)
getting closer.... any pointers appreciated.
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(This post was last modified: 2015-02-17, 00:07 by noggin.)
Dibcom 7000 is a widespread DVB chipset used in lots of DVB-T USB tuners. If you have a dual USB tuner set-up then it is highly likely that the two Dibcom 7000s you see are the two tuners.
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Thanks - I've been using that wiki - amongst others, but I get so far and my tv setup page is not the same - I can get to devices (with one extra step as per my above), and yeh, good to know the dibcom7000 is as I suspected, my tv tuner.
But after that I'm stuck - there's no option for setting "Add dvb network by location" or anything similar. Plus as it warns me about not being logged in, I figure that may be something to do with it.
So - how do I set the username and password?
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The newer builds of TV Headend require a bit more fiddling as they added flexibility to allow for multiple platforms to be received. Don't worry about the login stuff - it's just telling you that TV Headend is running in the 'anyone can login' mode I think. I've just gone from a blank install to fully tuned
You now have the concept of Networks, as well as Muxes, Services and Channels. You also have to make sure your DVB tuners are enabled, I think that by default they aren't.
Here's a quick step-by-step I followed with my PTC 290e and TV Headend 3.9.2496 installed on a Pi2 from the OE Unofficial Addons repo. I rebooted after I installed it.
Go to IP:9981 in your browser.
Select the Configuration tab. Select the DVB Inputs tab.
Select the Networks tab. Click Add. Select DVB-T from the drop down if you want terrestrial (which you do). Give your network a name like 'Freeview'. I disable Skip Initial Scan, but leave Network Discovery enabled (in theory you only need to add one mux/frequency to get TV Headend to find all the muxes as the broadcasters send a list of all frequencies in use).
Then you have a choice. I usually add my PSB1 (BBC/ITV SD) mux manually (after this point) and let network discovery do it's magic, but the alternative (which may be easier for you) is to select which transmitter you are using from the pre-defined muxes. Select "United Kingdom uk-XXX" where XXX is your transmitter. I live in London and so use Crystal Palace (as I'm not using a fill-in). (If you use pre-defined muxes you may end up with two versions of the muxes if you do this and leave network discovery enabled - as the first mux that is tuned will network discover the others, and potentially duplicate them)
Then click Create to create the network.
Go to TV Adapters, Select the tuner you want to tune, go to the Networks drop down and add the network you created above (Mine is called Freeview). Then select Enable.
If you then click on muxes you should see the muxes Scan Status go from PEND to ACTIVE to IDEL when tuning each mux, the SCAN RESULT should go OK, and you should get services appearing in the number of services column. Once all the muxes have scanned (and you have Scan Result OK in every row) you can map the services. Go to the Services Tab and click Map all. To avoid the problems with BBC Three/CBBC and BBC Four/CBeebies sharing the same streams, don't select 'Check availability' Click "Map" and you should quickly get 134/134 (or similar - numbers will vary if you don't have local TV or live in a different part of the UK)
(If you find no scanning happens - then a reboot might help)
You will probably also want to enable the EPG grabber.
Click on the Channel/EPG tab, then EPG Grabbber tab. Make sure UK : Freeview is ticked in the Module section. Click Save Configuration if it wasn't and you enabled it. You might want to click Trigger OTA EPG Grabber to force an EPG grab.
You might also want to set-up your recording stuff in the Recording tab, enable time shift (for live pause - though using an SD Card for this might not be a great idea). I'd also leave recordings on passthrough (which records in .ts format) rather than using mkv if you watch HD channels, as the mkv format doesn't always cope well with 5.1/2.0 audio switching which happens on the BBC and C4 HD stuff.
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Hi noggin - and THANK YOU so much for a clear, step by step gobble-di-gook free, explanation! I followed this and soon had the thing running! Should absolutely be made into a sticky or a how to!
The two little things I have now to sort out are...
1. getting the serial number off my pi (looked how to do it and am unsure regarding accessing the code lines from another machine, though I can move my files about freely just by going to the address in "search" on my laptop). Obviously I need the mpeg 2 decoder.
2. While I was setting up the tuner, I took the time to deselect channels that I didn't want - and in the guide section too. But they all showed up in Kodi front end. No problem I thought - will just deselect them in Kodi - so I did but they are still there!
It's looking really promising though!
