Posts by stefan327

P.S.:

strange - a very old version of LE (9.2.x) doesn't work too.

so the last known working configuration was the one that I had with a rpi 3b.

I tested the stick with the windows software - everything is working there.

Thank you.

I tried it with LE13, but I have the same failure. (tvh 4.3 latest version)
it was the build from yesterday.

I will try tvh 4.2. older versions now.
- tried with 4.2.8-36 didn't bring other results.

Any other Ideas?

P.S.: all muxes work on the attached TV.

no ideas?

I got this when trying to debug:

2025-08-17 18:06:12.492 [ INFO]:mpegts: 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk (0x55b21c3540) - deleting
2025-08-17 18:06:12.492 [ DEBUG]:mpegts: removing mux 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk from scan queue
2025-08-17 18:06:37.174 [ TRACE]:mpegts: 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk - created
2025-08-17 18:06:37.174 [ DEBUG]:mpegts: adding mux 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk to scan queue weight 5 flags 1000
2025-08-17 18:06:47.173 [ DEBUG]:mpegts: 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk - add raw service
2025-08-17 18:06:47.173 [ DEBUG]:service: 6: 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk si 0x7f8c004f80 Silicon Labs Si2168 #0 : DVB-C #0 weight 0 prio 10 error 0 (OK)
2025-08-17 18:06:47.173 [ DEBUG]:service: 4: 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk si 0x7f8c004ec0 Silicon Labs Si2168 #1 : DVB-C #0 weight 0 prio 10 error 0 (OK)
2025-08-17 18:06:47.173 [ TRACE]:service: will start new instance 4
2025-08-17 18:06:47.173 [ TRACE]:service: starting 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk
2025-08-17 18:06:47.173 [ INFO]:mpegts: 306MHz in DVB-C Netzwerk - tuning on Silicon Labs Si2168 #1 : DVB-C #0
2025-08-17 18:06:47.174 [ ERROR]:linuxdvb: Silicon Labs Si2168 #1 : DVB-C #0 - failed to tune [e=Invalid argument]
2025-08-17 18:06:47.174 [ TRACE]:service: tuning failed

Hello,

The wintv dual seems to be there, but if i try to add muxes, it doesn't work. (DVB-C, Germany, "Privatkabelanlage")
Everything was ok before with the former LE Version.

what could be the reason?`

thank you,

stefan

P.S.: I also tried it with a Pi5, but only got the same result.

Hello,

the old raspberry pi is a 3b, with libreelec 9.2.8, kodi 18.9. tvheadend server + client running.

what are the steps to move channel list etc. to the new installation? (rpi 4 2 gb, libreelec 11 actual download)?

thank you,

Stefan

P.S.:

there is tvh server 4.2 and 4.3 (alpha) available.
does anyone have experience with the newer alpha version? can you dare to install it?

one additional question to dvb-t scan files in tvheadend

the pre-defined muxes for germany didn't work (only there for dvb-t, but dvb-t2 is needed).

this helped me: PiCockpit | DVB-T Tools, but it's only available for germany.

in Croatia, they changed from dvb-t to dvb-t2 too this summer.

Does anybody know, if somebody did the same for croatia, than as picockpit.com did for germany?

should i better ask in the tvh forums?

Thank you,

Stefan

thank you very much!! it worked now - i don't know why, but in the meantime, the addons menus "filled up". I'm not 100% sure if i looked in the same place, but i had the impression that when i first looked, there was only 1 addon (somethink with docker). I had access to all addons now i think.

thank you ghtester! I don't know how to activate different plugins in a nightly build - i just installed it by putting the tar file in the "updates" smb folder.

when i browse through the kodi addon menus, the versions you mentioned don't show up. what am i missing?

ah sorry.. I just found a website containing all the plugins as zipfiles. did you mean that?

there is an error with the install - kodi gives a message that the zip doesn't have the correct structure.

i used : 9.80.8-RPi4-arm-service.tvheadend42-9.80.8.125.zip

Thank you ghtester,

the nightly installed ok, but tvh 4.2 is not compatible, and tvh 4.3. 1906 can't be installed because some dependency couldn't be resolved..

Is there a solution for this?

I use the Libreelec Pi with TV Tuner as a replacement for my defect Topfield PVR... I use an even bigger ssd there

Setup is ok, but the external hd/ssd adapter doesn't work. It is not recognized. and I get errors like this:

em28xx 1-1.1:1.0: write to i2c device at 0xc8 failed with unknown error (status=128)

I don't know how to show the actual firmware version. Please help!

Main point for me to use a ssd was durability - at the least on the "main" pi, with cloud software, databases etc. on it.

I don't remember the details, but I'll test the next hours.

I think the firmware was up to date - which version is that at the moment?

the same usb3-adapter and ssd run with full speed with a raspbian pi4 and kernel 5.4.

perhaps it has to do with the hauppauge usb2-device too.

one additional problem was, that the tvh server addon 4.2 doesn't work correctly in libreelec.

Hello,

I would like to set up an rpi4 with the latest kernel 5.4, because of general problems with usb3. I would like to run a hauppauge dvb-c/t stick, and a usb3 ssd. I had problems with that when i tried it with LE 9.2.4 or 9.2.5 several weeks ago, because of that, I went back to a pi3b.

Is there a beta build or a guide how this can be done?

Thank you,

Stefan

Hello to all,

I plan to setup a new device, and I wanted to ask you, which components work best with kodi.

I thought of using a raspberry pi, but a different device would be ok also. I want to use tvheadend, and use it as a videorecorder.

If it was a raspi, which dvb-c/t device gives the best results? which usb3-sata adapter is your recommendation for use with a rpi?

Or better use a different HW Base? I would prefer it, if automatic power-up and power-down for planned recordings would work...

Thank you,

Stefan

I have 9.2.4 with tvh 4.2 on an rpi3b+,

I have the same errors on startup like you.

De-activating the tvh4.2 server addon and re-activating it solves the problem for me until the next reboot

the pi runs all the time, so it's not a big problem for me.

but I hope that this will be solved - it seems to be a general problem on some combinations of pis and firmware / kernel.

Perhaps there is somebody who knows the necessary tweaks?

I moved back to the rpi3 with LE and TVH.

I have a USB DVB-C TV Tuner (Hauppauge WinTV HD Dual), and both devices (the tuner and the usb-ssd) work better with the rpi3.

(there are far fewer block artifacts and other errors with that setup).

I'm looking forward to use usb3 speed with my ssd - I transfer the video files to a pc sometimes.