TVheadend: Install

If you have multiple USB TV Tuners, then the initial setup should only be done with one TV Tuner installed.

Step 1. TV Tuners

I have four Hauppauge USB TV Tuners. The first step is to remove all of them except one. If all the TV Tuners are plugged into USB ports, then the TVheadend setuop doesn't work as well.

Then open a terminal window, ssh into the ubuntu PC, and reboot it:

$ sudo reboot

Step 2. Install TVheadend

Open a terminal window and ssh into ubuntu PC, the run the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get -y install coreutils wget apt-transport-https lsb-release ca-certificates

$ sudo wget -qO- https://doozer.io/keys/tvheadend/tvheadend/pgp | sudo apt-key add -

$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb https://apt.tvheadend.org/stable bionic main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tvheadend.list'

and then update the sources

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install tvheadend -y

Enter ♣username♣ and ♣password♣ for TVHeadEnd

Step 3. Check if it works

Open browser and enter (remove spaces around the colon, :)

http://♣hostname♣:9981

Step 4. Setup TVheadend

Follow directions, enter your preferred languages

Click Save & Next a couple of times to get to next screen

Enter allowed network, mine 192.168.1.0/24

Read the directions and enter ♣admin_name ♣ and ♣admin_password♣

I don't allow anonymous access for a username * and password *

Click Save & Next

Only set up one tuner (Network 2). If others appear, then they should have been removed before getting to this step. My Hauppauge WinTV HVR 955Q shows up as LG Electronics ...

The 955Q supports both Cable (C) and Terrestrial (T) networks. I am only going to use ATSC-T

Click Save & Next

Pre-defined Muxes: United States: us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB

Good explanation of TVheadend terms:

- - Mux is the carrier signal of the service
  - Services map to channels

Click Save & Next

and then wait until it completes (100% - My scan takes about 17 minutes and I end with 68 muxes and 13 services)

Click Save & Next

Step 5. When the scan completes

Select Map All Services, Create Provider and Network tags

Click Save & Next

Click Finish

Next: Configure TVheadend

Troubleshooting

Completely remove tvheadend and start over. Remove tvheadend and then everything that depended on it

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove tvheadend

$ sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

$ sudo userdel -r hts

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