Tvheadend and minisatip

[balanga]

I'm trying to set up tvheadend with minisatip but it seems like hard going. Has anyone come across a guide for setting this up?

 

[balanga]

I noticed when booting FreeBSD that it reported:-

Starting tvheadend.......................................................................................................................................................
Feb 14 10:20:33 Vbox tvheadend[813]: satips: use --satip_bindaddr parameter to select the local IP for SAT>IP............................................................
Feb 14 10:20:33 Vbox tvheadend[813]: satips: using Google lookup (might block the task until timeout)...........

Anyone know what this means?

Here are some cmd line options which mentions the above

tvheadend/docs/markdown/cmdline_options.md at master · tvheadend/tvheadend

Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server for Linux with ATSC, DVB-C/C2, DVB-S/S2, DVB-T/T2, IPTV, SAT>IP and unix pipe input sources - tvheadend/tvheadend

github.com

but I'm not sure what to put in... Is it the IP address of my STB?

 

[Sebastian]

I was never able to get tvheadend working correctly on freebsd. Did you use the dev branch from github ? Or did you use ports ?

From time to time I'm checking the tvheadend repo and they were commits specific for the combination IPSAT and freebsd. Maybe you're still on 4.2 ?

 

[balanga]

I'm using 4.2.8 - not sure of the source, probably a pkg. Is there something more recent available?

And what is the FreeBSD IPSAT combination you refer to?

With IPSAT, I'm not sure how to set that up. When I use my PCTV DVB-S2 USB stick then scanning doesn't pick anything up, but I think that must have something to do with the driver in use - webcamd().

 

[Sebastian]

I thought you have to use SAT-IP , but if not , it should work .

My own experience is that , I have never get freebsd and tvheadend running correctly... , but my setup is not that straightforward.

That's why I switched to linux for this case...

Does the os find your DVB Card and what about tvh ?