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

@dushmaniac:
xbmc has been accepted in debian. Does that mean you wil be providing debian packages as well?

no, Eden has been accepted in Debian, and PVR isn't in Eden.

Ok I'm going round in circles here and getting nowhere fast.
I've followed post 1 and got it all set up but here's the problem I'm having. From the web interface on my pc I can record, from xbmc itself it won't record. Message says "PVR backend error check log" watching live is no problem, just recording.
Anybody have any ideas?
I'm completely new to Linux, so easy to understand answers please.

(2012-04-12 19:21)TK4|2|1 Wrote:  Ok I'm going round in circles here and getting nowhere fast.
I've followed post 1 and got it all set up but here's the problem I'm having. From the web interface on my pc I can record, from xbmc itself it won't record. Message says "PVR backend error check log" watching live is no problem, just recording.
Anybody have any ideas?
I'm completely new to Linux, so easy to understand answers please.

Hi there

I think you need to update your XBMC user account via the tvheadend admin page and allow it to record. It sounds like it's only allowed to stream

Hi,
I have some questions regarding the channel groups:

- Is it possible to go back/forward in the channel groups? The only way I know of is to go to the OSD and hit ok on the tv-channels option in the left bar until you wrap around to the first one, it doesn't work very well when you have 10+ groups.
- Is there a way to change the channel group while watching live-tv in fullscreen without going out to the OSD?
- Is it possible to sort the channel group order?

Cheers

Does the latest release support recording from the frontend? been trying to record a show off the EPG menu. But it gives me an error. and says to check the log.. where would i locate the log?

(2012-04-19 01:08)jpreville Wrote:  Does the latest release support recording from the frontend? been trying to record a show off the EPG menu. But it gives me an error. and says to check the log.. where would i locate the log?

Same here.

Pretty certain that's a no, nothing has been announced at least and it doesn't work for me, like it never did.

Have my own question, have a weird problem with tvheadend where the initial scan will always hang at 2 muxes remaining to scan. I check the muxes tab and these 2 pesky muxes are both 99,999,990Khz, so are obviously invalid. If I delete the muxes along with unticking "idle scanning" and "autodetect muxes". I can get it to complete to map the services to channels.

The problem is this happens every time a reboot of the box happens so is a right pain in the arse, does anyone know if this is a driver problem with my card, a TBS 6981 or a tvheadend problem? tvheadend is a bug ridden mess although fantastic at the same time . Have tried the version here, the latest pulse6 version and also the latest git version all with same results.

One more question...

How would I make the git version auto start with every boot? It doesn't seem to be listed as a service like the pulse version?

Thanks.

(2012-04-19 01:08)jpreville Wrote:  Does the latest release support recording from the frontend? been trying to record a show off the EPG menu. But it gives me an error. and says to check the log.. where would i locate the log?

I allways schedule recordings from the epg, no problem here.
Your log is in ~/.xbmc/temp/xbmc.log

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(2012-04-19 23:57)robo989 Wrote:  How would I make the git version auto start with every boot? It doesn't seem to be listed as a service like the pulse version?

You could take a look at the bottom half of this post.

Thanks for that mate, haven't followed it yet but looks simple enough. Much appreciated.

In relation to recording from EPG, you are referring to the EPG in the web gui yes? I think the person you quoted is referring to from within XBMC. I could be wrong though and maybe recording is working in XBMC, could you confirm, thank you.