TVHeadEnd Setup Quick Start - Testers Needed

Quote from DeltaMikeCharlie

I will install Kodi v21 on a test machine and see if the script fails.

I managed to get the script to run successfully on Kodi v21-RC1 in Ubuntu (not LE or CE) without error. I had to fudge some of the addon validations, however, those sections have no impact on how the script actually operates.

petediscrete - Thanks for your interest.

If you are still willing, I am still curious to see if it works on DVB-S. If you have a really positive result, I may reconsider my stance.

I'd like to know if crazyturk's result was an outlier or typical of the DVB-S experience. Perhaps there was an unexpected complication with CE.

Quote from petediscrete

This won’t be some comparison test between your addon setup in LE v CE.

Agreed.

I'd like to see the result with DVB-S on LE as the addon was designed for LE. I don't know enough about CE to determine how much that contributed to crazyturk's result. However, if I get a similar failure in LE, then I can be fairly certain that my addon is to blame and decide where to go from there.

Quote from petediscrete

I’ll gladly do a fresh install of LE and install your Wizard addon in a DVBS environment and post back here with my findings.

Thanks.

petediscrete - Thank you very much for your efforts.

After the report from crazyturk, I was expecting much worse and I am pleasantly surprised.

Quote from petediscrete

Have you any other questions you feel you need to ask me.

Is your satellite dish fixed or motorised?

Quote from petediscrete

I never doubted that DVBS would work with your Wizard.

Thanks for your vote of confidence.

Quote from petediscrete

From a vanilla LE install and installing your Wizard add on, what should the average user expect from the Wizard.

The average user should expect to see a basic/simple TVH configuration suitable for live TV and PVR operations.

This may be a subtle nuance, the addon is actually called ‘TVHeadEnd PVR Quick Start’, I have not used the term ‘Wizard’ for a long time. Its description reads 'Quickly configure a simple PVR using TVHeadEnd.'

Quote from petediscrete

At what stage should they need to visit the TVH web GUI.

If all the user needs is a basic PVR/TV experience, they need never visit the TVH WebUI. Viewing the EPG, changing channels and managing recordings will be handled by Kodi’s PVR module. Although the URL for the WebUI is displayed in the heading of the addon should the user choose to go there.

Quote from petediscrete

Do you see where I’m coming from.

No, not really.

The addon is designed to automate the tasks of:

• Installing the LibreELEC TVH server addon.
• Installing the Kodi HTS PVR addon.
• Browsing to the TVH server addon and running the Wizard.

petediscrete

Can you please post a screen capture of your TVH WebUI Configuration->DVB Inputs->TV Adapters screen? I would like to compare your settings to crazyturk's.

I only have 3 levels to reach my 'leaf' adapters.

Whereas crazyturk has 6 levels.

Quote from chewitt

In the Kodi ecosystem "Wizards" are mostly associated with piracy add-ons/builds so avoiding that term is a good move

That's good to know.

My reason for renaming was more that a 'Wizard' had full and comprehensive knowledge of a topic, whereas a 'Quick Start' gets you up and running.

I have renamed the threads to refer to 'Quick Start' rather than 'Wizard'.

petediscrete & crazyturk

Thank you both very much your your assistance in testing.

It seems that crazyturk was using directly connected a tuner card, whereas petediscrete was using an external Sat>IP device.

On top of that, it appears that both of petediscrete's ‘leaf’ adapters point back to the same source. However, crazyturk seems to have multiple leaf devices connected to multiple satellite configurations. Each configuration option is represented as a different branch in the device tree.

Based on a lot of reading, the following is purely hypothetical, and I plan to delve deeper into this with a configuration data request from both of you shortly.

Because the addon takes a very basic approach, it assumes that all of the leaf adapters of the same type all point to the same place and therefore connects them to the same network (group of muxes).

For example, with my configuration, all of my DVB-T leaf adapters are connected to the same antenna on my roof. As TVH tries to tune to each mux, it is attaching to one of the free leaf adapters and configuring it with the appropriate frequency, etc.

On petediscrete's system, it did the same thing and because all of the leaf adapters coincidentally connected to the same place, tuning worked as planned. I suspect that if petediscrete's SAT>IP box was configured for multiple satellites, petediscrete's results would have been different.

With crazyturk, however, I am speculating based on the device tree names, that each leaf adapter instructs the motorised dish to acquire a different satellite. The addon has then lumped all of the DVB-S leaf adapters into one giant group. When TVH tried to tune and scan, it was effectively scanning random satellites for the muxes that crazyturk expected to find on a single specific satellite.

The addon failed for crazyturk, in part, because the muxes selected also need to correspond to the leaf adapter that points to the specific satellite required. Not all DVB-S leaf adapters lead to the same place.

I will ask both of you to provide me with a dump of your configurations. I just need to work out exactly what information I will need. This could take a few days.

Once again, than you both.