![]() You’ve completed the basic setup of TVheadend, and have scanned you channels in, so go ahead and click Finishīefore we get into setting up our Electronic Programming Guide (EPG), I wanted to show you a couple of other configuration options in TVheadend, so go ahead and click the Configuration tab, followed by DVB Inputs and Networks. You can choose to check off Create provider tags and Create network tags or not, but they simply provide various ways to tag your channels. Once the scan is complete click Save & Next This will take a bit of time so be patient. In any case, this is a setting that you can change later and see if it changes the results of your channel scan.Īfter you click Save & Next, TVheadend is basically going to run a channel scan based on the mux list you selected to see which TV stations that it can pick up and will list the number of channels that it found next to Found services. Since I am located in the Niagara region, I am able to pull in channels from both Toronto and from Buffalo, so in my experience I’ve found that I get better results selecting United States: us-NTSC-center-frequencies because it includes all of the Toronto frequencies plus more. This however would be a mistake that would result in missing a number of channels. ![]() Since i’m in Canada it may seem logical to assume I should select Canada: ca-ON-Toronto from the drop down list. Depending on your area, TV stations may have to follow different rules for which frequencies that they can broadcast on. The next screen is going to ask you to select from a list of pre-defined muxes, but what exactly is a mux anyway? Basically, the mux list is the list for frequencies that TV channels broadcast on to give you your channels. Select ATSC-T Network as the network type for both tuners, then click Save & Nextīy the way, you may have noticed that the IP address of my HDHomeRun is on a different IP range, well that’s because I changed my router after i started writing the article, so for the remainder of this article seeing just imagine that it’s all on the same network. Since my model of the HDHomeRun support dual tuners we see it show up twice as Network 3 and Network 4. When you’re done click Save & NextĪfter this we are going to set up the network type for our HDHomeRun. We’ll use the administrator account when making configuration changes in Tvheadend and the user account to connect KODI to our Tvheadend server. Go ahead an create a administrator account and a user account. Just remember that 192.168.1 represents the first part of your IP address, so you need to replace that to match the first three numbers of you IP. This step isn’t strictly necessary to get Tvheadend working, however is does provide an additional layer of security. Next we are going to setup our network access restriction to only allow devices on our local home network to access Tvheadend. Go ahead and configure your desired language and click Save & Next. Once you’ve logged in, you’ll be presented with a welcome wizard. You’ll most likely be prompted to enter a username and password which will be that of the Tvheadend administrator that you configured as part of the installation. If you’re unsure what your IP address is, go ahead and refer back to part 2 in this article series. Since Tvheadend is managed through a webpage, go ahead and open your browser and navigate to the following page where 192.168.1.111 represents your servers IP address. If you’re just joining us and haven’t yet setup your Ubuntu server with Tvheadend and the HDHomeRun, make sure you check out part 1 and part 2 of this article series. Today we’re going look at configuring some settings in Tvheadend, such as scanning in Channels, setting up our EPG (Electronic Programming Guide) and some basics of scheduling recordings.
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