Linux HOW-TO watch Live TV in XBMC for Linux with Tvheadend, the easy way!

Code:

# deb http://mirrors.nl.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main



deb http://mirrors.nl.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

deb-src http://mirrors.nl.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free



deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free

deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non-free



# squeeze-updates, previously known as 'volatile'

deb http://mirrors.nl.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

deb-src http://mirrors.nl.kernel.org/debian/ squeeze-updates main

deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org squeeze main non-free

Code:

apt-get update && apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install debian-multimedia-keyring

Code:

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y



apt-get build-dep xbmc -y



apt-get install -y nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig && nvidia-xconfig



apt-get install autoconf automake autotools-dev bison cvs fp-compiler fp-units-rtl g++-4.3 gdc gdc-4.3 git-core libboost-date-time1.42-dev libboost-serialization1.42-dev libboost-serialization1.42.0 libboost-thread-dev libboost-thread1.42-dev libltdl-dev libmpeg3-1 libmpeg3-dev libphobos-4.3-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-4 libsdl-gfx1.2-dev libsqlite0 libssh-dev libstdc++6-4.3-dev libtool libyajl-dev libyajl1 pmount python-dev python-sqlite yasm gdb

Code:

cd /usr/src



git clone -b Eden-pvr-cec git://github.com/Pulse-Eight/xbmc.git



cd xbmc



git reset --hard HEAD



./bootstrap && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install

Code:

cd /usr/src



git clone git://github.com/opdenkamp/tvheadend.git



cd tvheadend



git reset --hard HEAD



./configure --release



make



adduser --system --group hts



cp -f /usr/src/tvheadend/build.Linux/tvheadend /usr/bin/tvheadend

Code:

nano /etc/init.d/tvheadend

Code:

#! /bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides:          tvheadend

# Required-Start:    $local_fs $remote_fs udev

# Required-Stop:     $local_fs $remote_fs

# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5

# Default-Stop:      0 1 6

### END INIT INFO



# Author: Andreas Öman



# Do NOT "set -e"



# PATH should only include /usr/* if it runs after the mountnfs.sh script

PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

DESC="HTS Tvheadend"

NAME=tvheadend

DAEMON=/usr/bin/$NAME

DAEMON_ARGS="-f -u hts -g video"

PIDFILE=/var/run/$NAME.pid

SCRIPTNAME=/etc/init.d/$NAME



# Exit if the package is not installed

[ -x "$DAEMON" ] || exit 0



# Read configuration variable file if it is present

[ -r /etc/default/$NAME ] && . /etc/default/$NAME



# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables

[ -f /etc/default/rcS ] && . /etc/default/rcS



# Define LSB log_* functions.

# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.

. /lib/lsb/init-functions



#

# Function that starts the daemon/service

#

do_start()

{

    # Return

    #   0 if daemon has been started

    #   1 if daemon was already running

    #   2 if daemon could not be started

        udevadm settle

    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON --test > /dev/null \

        || return 1

    start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON -- \

        $DAEMON_ARGS \

        || return 2

}



#

# Function that stops the daemon/service

#

do_stop()

{

    # Return

    #   0 if daemon has been stopped

    #   1 if daemon was already stopped

    #   2 if daemon could not be stopped

    #   other if a failure occurred

    start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --retry=TERM/30/KILL/5 --pidfile $PIDFILE --name $NAME

    RETVAL="$?"

    [ "$RETVAL" = 2 ] && return 2

    # Many daemons don't delete their pidfiles when they exit.

    rm -f $PIDFILE

    return "$RETVAL"

}





case "$1" in

  start)

    [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESC" "$NAME"

    do_start

    case "$?" in

        0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;

        2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;

    esac

    ;;

  stop)

    [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Stopping $DESC" "$NAME"

    do_stop

    case "$?" in

        0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;

        2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;

    esac

    ;;

  restart|force-reload)

    #

    # If the "reload" option is implemented then remove the

    # 'force-reload' alias

    #

    log_daemon_msg "Restarting $DESC" "$NAME"

    do_stop

    case "$?" in

      0|1)

        do_start

        case "$?" in

            0) log_end_msg 0 ;;

            1) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Old process is still running

            *) log_end_msg 1 ;; # Failed to start

        esac

        ;;

      *)

          # Failed to stop

        log_end_msg 1

        ;;

    esac

    ;;

  *)

    echo "Usage: $SCRIPTNAME {start|stop|restart|force-reload}" >&2

    exit 3

    ;;

esac



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