2015-11-05, 01:19
Problems problems problems. Im kind of new to linux. Setup is Rpi 2 (2amp power supply), osmc, tvheadend 4.0.5, Kodi 15.2, ps3 playtv twin tuner with powered hub, and a powered usb 3 external hd formatted to ext4 with a samsung pro u1 32gb sd card.
Getting it all going was a lot harder than I thought ( web interfaces, muxes, linux, installing obscure drivers (dib0700.fw), screens not gviving me any feedback on if it is doing something or just hanged etc etc. Basically I just want a pvr with a good size hard disk that can be replaced if it goes wrong. I dont care about hd channels sd channels are fine.
I am in the uk with freeview
So what doesnt work ?
Well it crashes when it changes channels, every few channels.
I have reduced the live tv time to 12 minutes, as I have read that setting up a buffer can be a problem. This helped, but has not fixed it. I have bought a mpeg 2 license, again this has helped ( I can change more channels before crashing) but hasnt fixed it.
Basically if I change channels too quickly then after a few channels osmc gives me a sad face, which I think is its blue screen of death.
If I stop the channel with the square stop button on screen then it doesnt crash. When I next select a channel it might freeze saying buffering, it might say tvheadend no input detected, it might change channels!, but it doesnt give me the blue screen of death.
Even if a channel says "tvheadend no input detected", on reboot it can generally play the channel again straight away!
It can record 2 channels at once. I think when I had the timeshift on the sd card it worked, but the timeshift in memory doesnt work. Maybe I need to set up a memory file or something ??
https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/10013?r=18268 This post says a bug was fixed, but Im not sure if they actually fixed anything or just closed the thread !
Also the epg often goes blank and I need to go to settings->tv->guide and select clear data to get it going again. (Also dont chache to local database needs to be ticked)
Im not sure if this is Kodi, osmc, tvheadend or the playtv drivers or what. (Though I suspect its tvheadend).
So my basic question is this:- Does anyone else have a similar setup and does it work or do you have similar problems to me ? Particularly do you have tvheadend working with a sony playtv adapter on any kind of linux based system in a way that you hop around channels without it crashing ?
I would say it seems a lot slower at changing channels than my sagem freeview recorder. I have set channel change timeout to 10 secs. Even this is not always enough. I have been swapping the ariel between this and my freeview recorder, so I know the ariel is pretty good ( 60 to 70 percent signal strength I think) (The sagem freeview recorder works fine with it)
I would like to hear from anyone for whom it works or doesnt work. If it works, what do you think is different ? There is a section for skip bytes when changing channels. Any idea what this should be set to, or should I increase the freeview buffer size ?
Is this a hardware issue, is this just bug ridden code that hasnt been fixed in the last 4 years because no one uses playtv anymore or what
Thanks in advance
Getting it all going was a lot harder than I thought ( web interfaces, muxes, linux, installing obscure drivers (dib0700.fw), screens not gviving me any feedback on if it is doing something or just hanged etc etc. Basically I just want a pvr with a good size hard disk that can be replaced if it goes wrong. I dont care about hd channels sd channels are fine.
I am in the uk with freeview
So what doesnt work ?
Well it crashes when it changes channels, every few channels.
I have reduced the live tv time to 12 minutes, as I have read that setting up a buffer can be a problem. This helped, but has not fixed it. I have bought a mpeg 2 license, again this has helped ( I can change more channels before crashing) but hasnt fixed it.
Basically if I change channels too quickly then after a few channels osmc gives me a sad face, which I think is its blue screen of death.
If I stop the channel with the square stop button on screen then it doesnt crash. When I next select a channel it might freeze saying buffering, it might say tvheadend no input detected, it might change channels!, but it doesnt give me the blue screen of death.
Even if a channel says "tvheadend no input detected", on reboot it can generally play the channel again straight away!
It can record 2 channels at once. I think when I had the timeshift on the sd card it worked, but the timeshift in memory doesnt work. Maybe I need to set up a memory file or something ??
https://tvheadend.org/boards/5/topics/10013?r=18268 This post says a bug was fixed, but Im not sure if they actually fixed anything or just closed the thread !
Also the epg often goes blank and I need to go to settings->tv->guide and select clear data to get it going again. (Also dont chache to local database needs to be ticked)
Im not sure if this is Kodi, osmc, tvheadend or the playtv drivers or what. (Though I suspect its tvheadend).
So my basic question is this:- Does anyone else have a similar setup and does it work or do you have similar problems to me ? Particularly do you have tvheadend working with a sony playtv adapter on any kind of linux based system in a way that you hop around channels without it crashing ?
I would say it seems a lot slower at changing channels than my sagem freeview recorder. I have set channel change timeout to 10 secs. Even this is not always enough. I have been swapping the ariel between this and my freeview recorder, so I know the ariel is pretty good ( 60 to 70 percent signal strength I think) (The sagem freeview recorder works fine with it)
I would like to hear from anyone for whom it works or doesnt work. If it works, what do you think is different ? There is a section for skip bytes when changing channels. Any idea what this should be set to, or should I increase the freeview buffer size ?
Is this a hardware issue, is this just bug ridden code that hasnt been fixed in the last 4 years because no one uses playtv anymore or what
Thanks in advance