TVHeadend support

[Elusivity]

Seeing as ADM 2 is going to be supporting XBMC on both 3 and 6 series devices very soon is there a possibility of Asustor or someone else packaging and supporting TVHeadend?

TVHeadend is the last piece required for the Asustor devices to become true HTPC replacements with a wide and readily available support device type pool.

GIT links and resource availability here: https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Building

[James.S@AST]

Thank you for your feedback, we will put this to our working list
Cheers,

[clinton.hall]

Of interest... There is an apkg for DBTLink which has add ons for XBMC. I intend to use this as soon as XBMC is out

Note, this does have a one-time fee of 20 Euro for the plugin to access the DVBT device. And there are only specific devices supported.... But thought it was worth mentioning.

I still would like to see TVHeadend, as a free option, but my previous experience has lead me to use DVBTLink

[James.S@AST]

FYI:
A great news that DVBLink is offering 30% discount until 9/27!
http://www.asustor.com/news/news_detail?id=2534?lan=en

[Elusivity]

Clinton - I agree that DVBLink is definitely an option, but it has limited support for devices available outside of Europe, basically Hauppage for DVB-T and a few DVB-S\S2 devices. This limits the possibility of this function in the US market and means that a dual DVB-T device setup for Australian users ends up costing more than half an AS-302T does!

James - I'd recommend asking the engineers about including the linux tv project drivers into ADM itself as it'll greatly increase device compatability without having to use a non-standard kernel, like I said in my post in the dev forum: http://forum.asustor.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1981

Edit: Just saw your post in relation to mine in the dev forum - I agree tvheadend support would be ideal for integration into xbmc and round out the media server / center functions of the Asustor devices. It makes things simple to allow DVB-T, DVB-C, DVB-S, DVB-S2 and ATSC support for both native Asustor XBMC and other devices on network running XBMC or other clients with tvheadend support.

[clinton.hall]

Yes. Fair point. I did buy a Hauppage dual DVB-T and this was more than your average tuner... But I am happy with it.

I also took advantage of the discount on DVBLink.

Certainly I am keen to see and test TVHeadend...

[Elusivity]

Clinton, for curiosity's sake which model did you end up with, and where from? I'm guessing a Nova-T/TD?

On the DVBlink forums the mod isn't even sure whether or not any Hauppage dual DVB-T tuners work, specifically the Nova-T is referenced.

Based on what is confirmed to work I've only been able to identify these devices in the same price range, if not more expensive, than an HDHomerun Dual which works as a standalone dual tuner, so unless one needs the gui based pvr functionality in an always on device there'd be no need for tvheadend or dvblink at all, you could just use https://pypi.python.org/pypi/hdhomerun-recorder running on the Asustor for that

[clinton.hall]

I got Hauppauge NOVA TD USB HD USB Dual Digital tuner from streamaster.com.au
http://streamaster.com.au/hauppauge-nov ... tuner.html

There were a few other sites that had it... Some cheaper, but these guys had it in stock and I was imapatient

[Elusivity]

Ahh fair enough, that I've seen it's the same price as the HDHomerun - I'll wait and see whether or not we get anywhere with tvheadend. Thanks for the info!

[koymoy]

Seeing as ADM 2 is going to be supporting XBMC on both 3 and 6 series devices very soon is there a possibility of Asustor or someone else packaging and supporting TVHeadend?

TVHeadend is the last piece required for the Asustor devices to become true HTPC replacements with a wide and readily available support device type pool.

GIT links and resource availability here: https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Building

Agreed!

br.
Christian