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HDHomerun support

Asked by B. Joshua Rosen

Are there any plans to add hdhomerun support to me-tv? The last time anyone asked this question was 2008, so it's time to ask it again. The hdhomerun is a much better tuner then the Haupauge. The only DVR solution that I've found that supports the hdhomerun is MythTV which is unstable, has a horrible UI, and really hard to setup because of it's dependence on MYSQL (what's up with that?, who needs a fullblown database to hold a few K worth of data). Me-tv is exactly what I want but I need hdhomerun support.

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Frédéric Côté (frederic-cote) said : 		#1

from this FAQ:
https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/me-tv/+faq/353

"Me TV does not support specific DVB devices. If your device has Linux drivers then Me TV should work for you."

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B. Joshua Rosen (bjrosen) said : 		#2

HDhomerun is Ethernet based, it's not connected directly to the machine, Me-TV doesn't see it. Silicondust provides an open source app that plays live TV just fine, but they don't have any DVR capabilities.

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Villy Thomsen (tfylliv) said : 		#3

Just FYI, a linux DVB driver for the HDHomeRun does actually exist:

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/dvbhdhomerun/

If you are on Ubuntu 10.04/10.10 there is also packages here on launchpad for it, otherwise you need to compile it yourself (which is not difficult).

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Thanks Villy, that's very useful information. Me TV talks to the Linux DVB API, support for anything else is a feature request. But seeing as how I don't have that device then there's no chance that I can develop for it.

So, to answer the OPs question "Are there any plans to add hdhomerun support to me-tv?", the answer is no. Sure, if I had the device I would get it working in Me TV. What you want is linux DVB to support the device.

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DaleEMoore (daleemoore) said : 		#5

Hi Villy;

I'm running 11.04 and wonder if you are planning on building your PPA for dvbhdhomerun to work with Ubuntu release 11.04?

Thanks for all your hard work!
Dale

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Villy Thomsen (tfylliv) said : 		#6

Hi Dale,

I had completely forgotten about building a version of dvbhdhomerun 11.04, thanx for reminding me. ;-)

Its good to go now.

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#7

So this works?

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Villy Thomsen (tfylliv) said : 		#8

Hi Michael,

Yes. Well, for me at least. ;-)

tfylliv@nzxt:~$ me-tv
Me TV 1.3.6
2011-04-02 00:19:10: Device: 'HDHomeRun DVB-C' (DVB-C) at "/dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0"
2011-04-02 00:19:10: Device: 'HDHomeRun DVB-C' (DVB-C) at "/dev/dvb/adapter1/frontend0"
2011-04-02 00:19:11: Frontend::tune_to(514000000)
2011-04-02 00:19:11: Waiting for signal lock ...
2011-04-02 00:19:11: Got signal lock
etc.

HD streams are quite choppy though, but the errors seems to indicate codec problems (could be buffering i guess) - haven't looked deeper into that though. HD streams works fine with other apps though.

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Michael Lamothe (lamothe-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#9

Good to know, thanks. I'll mark this as solved then.

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DaleEMoore (daleemoore) said : 		#10

Hi Villy;

I setup the Software Sources, apt-get update-ed, installed the 3 dvbhdhomerun packages and before I knew it sudo userhdhomerun told me sordid details about my HDHomeRun LAN device. Me-TV does a wonderful job with your dvbhdhomerun package to find my channels and show me what's available.

Thanks for everything!
Dale