Tvheadend nightly builds for LE

Mario77 · April 14, 2019 at 4:46 PM

Quote from CvH

you can do it at the settings without an problem

Thanks...couldn't find it...I ll have another good look now knowing setting is there somewhere...is it in configuration menu?

olivluca · April 14, 2019 at 6:51 PM

Quote from tuep

I was only confused because it resetted two IPTV channels and it deleted the tv_grab_wg++ I created under .kodi/addons/service.tvheadend/bin. Will this be deleted everytime I update via install from zip?

I suppose. You should put your own things somewhere else e.g, directly in /storage or a subdirectory of it (which won't be saved when you make a backup) or in .kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42 (which should be preserver in a backup).

tuep · April 14, 2019 at 6:55 PM

I think it has to be exactly there in order to be recognized by tvheadend as a xmltv grabber.

olivluca · April 14, 2019 at 7:01 PM

Oh, I use an external grabber (webgrabplus) and send data to the fifo once it has run (the webgrabplus package will check for a before.sh script to run before the grab and an after.sh script to run, well, after, both of them in .kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.webgrabplus)

tuep · April 14, 2019 at 7:31 PM

I use Webgrabplus too. Webgrabplus creates a guide.xml in userdata/addon_data/service.webgrabplus/ and this is processed by the tv_grab_wg skript run by tvheadendserver. Maybe one can also save this script somewhere else and set it up in tvheadend. But if a future update wouldn't kill it I am fine with this. Otherwise I have to check it out. But currently the missing of Picons in Kodi is more annoying.

olivluca · April 14, 2019 at 8:51 PM

Enable the external xmltv grabber in tvheadend, then place this in .kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.webgrabplus/after.sh (and make it executable)

Bash

#!/bin/bash
curl -d @guide.xml -X POST -m 5 --unix-socket /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/epggrab/xmltv.sock http://google.com

It won't connect to google but curl needs an url, any url, it will just send the data to the tvheadend's socket.

Edit: found here: HOWTO: Three ways to use xmltv.sock

tuep · April 14, 2019 at 9:12 PM

I will check it out. I only use webgrabplus for one channel that isn't available over DVB-T2 and hesitated for a longer time to do so. That EPG thing is really one of the most annoying things to set up. I did it once before so this time it went quite well, but the first time was really a struggle.

Mario77 · April 15, 2019 at 1:02 AM

Quote from Mario77

Thanks...couldn't find it...I ll have another good look now knowing setting is there somewhere...is it in configuration menu?

Still can't find the change ports option in the settings...looked everywhere...I m using a raspberry pi 2..thanks

tuep · April 20, 2019 at 8:20 AM

I still couldn't get Picons to work in LibreELEC. It's not the biggest issue, but since I spent so much time with it, I would really appreciate to succeed in the end.

Uukrul · April 23, 2019 at 12:12 AM

Quote from tuep

I still couldn't get Picons to work in LibreELEC. It's not the biggest issue, but since I spent so much time with it, I would really appreciate to succeed in the end.

Did you try this?

libreelec + tvheadend - local kodi fetching picons very slowly and with curl timeouts

tuep · April 23, 2019 at 6:22 AM

Yes.

crazyturk · April 23, 2019 at 8:44 PM

Apply settings in this way.

/storage/picon

tuep · April 23, 2019 at 8:55 PM

I think the paths are not the problem, as I have the Icons working perfectly in the browser under epg. I already have the network set to plain and digest.

Might it be a problem that Server and Client are on the same machine? In the client I didn't used the 127.0.0.1 IP but the IP of the system in the LAN.

crazyturk · April 23, 2019 at 9:14 PM

IP must not be a problem.

tuep · April 23, 2019 at 9:18 PM

As I am using the service name picons for me it's something like this file:///storage/picons/tvh/daserstehd.png

But as I said in the browser looking at the details in EPG the Picons are there. Also http://serverip:9981/imagecache/20 shows the correct image for channel 20. So for some reason it's not making the way to Kodi. Also setting up a path to the picon folder in Kodi doesn't work.

crazyturk · April 23, 2019 at 10:29 PM

The name of the picons folder will be written as a picon.If you review pictures, the folder names are changed.

tuep · April 24, 2019 at 5:59 AM

I know this setting is the config for the generation of the paths under settings/channels for each channel. This is working already the paths are leading to correct locations on the machine. And the Picons are there but only on Kodi I only see a TV-Symbol in the main view and in EPG the space for the logo is empty.

crazyturk · April 24, 2019 at 10:28 AM

"Settings/Pvr-Live Tv/Menu Osd/Channel Logo" if this section is open, close this section.

In the "/storage/.kodi/userdata/" section, delete the "Thumbnails" folder and reboot.