dmankg Wrote:hi all,

we are using tvheadend for live tv. working well no problems yet with SD channels. now we r planning to implement HD channels and just wondering if thvheadend is capable working stable with HD channels as well? may be some of u tried. how is it? is it stable?
thanks

speed32219 Wrote:Finally getting round to trying this feature out using an external antenna connected to my Pinnacle HDTV PCI card using OTA ATSC. I installed the required SW and started the configuration, but I am running into a setup problem. It seems I can not configure a backend, or as a noob I do not understand the instructions (highly likely).

Code:

[b]Step 1[/b]
Configuring TVheadend
Go to the TVheadend GUI by visiting http://yourmachine:9981/
Go to configuration -> tv adapters and select a tv adapter.
Set the "NIT-o Network ID". You can find that in your provider's manual.
[b]Left as default 0, since OTA I'm not sure what to do here)[/b]
Enable "Autodetect muxes" and "Idle scanning"
Then select "Add DVB Network by location"
Click "save"

When I put 192.168.1.156 in place of your machine (above) I get the configuration screen.  
I then select tv adapters and select my adapter with that also has an extension labeled "frontend".

Map DVB Services to channels: It found the local channels and I assigned local channel numbers, going great so far.
Now onto the second part.

[b]Step 2[/b]
Configuring XBMC
After installing, you can head to http://yourserver:[b]9981[/b]/ to access the web interface and configure the backend.
[b]  I am trying to configure tvheadend (Backend/Frontend - server/clinet) on the same machine [/b]

This is my problem, I end up on the same configuration screen
with the TV adapter and channels being the same.  There is no reference to [b]"backend"  or
server.  [/b]

I tought maybe I need to configure a DVR, but when I look at the addons, everything references
the DVR as frontend. I did enable and configure one of the DVR selections (VNSI I think) and put
password and server name in the configureation.   Am I not understanding the terminology of backend (aka server) vs frontend?

Anyhow, when I try and congiure it in the System > TV > channel manager > and select active
and then map channels  XBMCe-loads, no crash log so maybe it is suppose to do that.
The setup documentation is pretty lame even on the tvheadend site.
If I go to TV on main xbmc menu and hit select I get an error "No Pvr Clients Availalbe".

And I run this without a PVR client enabled?  Just to watch live tv a first.

What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

UPDATE: I figured it out, myabe I'll write up a noob document. IT is very confusing jumping all over the forums/posts/URL's. I had hts tvheadend and a vnsi pvr enabled, not to mention different user names and passwords. I used my xbmc name and password and not the one I setup the intial tvheadend with. Anyhow I have locals OTA in HD right now. Just have to figure out how not to window the video screen and go full screen. Thank you for all your help, inital posts and hundreds upon hundreds of pages of posts. LOL It looks good!

PANiCnz Wrote:Hi,

Have followed the instruction as per the first post but have hit a snag. I'm using XBMCLive, and have installed TVHeadEnd, however its my understanding that out of the box TVHeadend does not allow remote access to the UI, e.g. the access list needs to be modified, however since I'm using XBMCLive I don't have access to a browser to make the changes using a local browser. Any ideas?

grassmunk Wrote:It should if you point your browser to http://<xbmcip>:9981 and use xbmc/xbmc as username/password.

Otherwise you can change it using ssh the file is in the folder /home/xbmc/.hts/tvheatend