hdhomerun & dvr - prefer tvheadend

[John-Mark Gurney]

Bernhard Frhlich wrote this message on Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:35 +0100:
> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Bryce Edwards <bryce at bryce.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm running FreeBSD 10 and need to setup a DVR (timeshift capability a
> > big plus).  Tvheadend would be my preference, but I'll take anything
> > that Just Works(TM). I got a hdhomerun as the ATSC tuner (dual
> > actually) so that drivers were not a problem but I see that the
> > approach tvheadend takes for that tuner is linux specific with the DVB
> > kernel driver approach.  Please give me suggestions to get this up &
> > running or point me to good alternatives.
> 
> Sorry, but there is no way to get that setup running on FreeBSD. As you
> have already seen the hdhomerun "wrapper" that is used on linux is a
> kernel module that doesn't work on FreeBSD and tvheadend itself does
> not support hdhomerun yet.
> 
> The closes we could get is to ask Hans Petter Selasky if he sees a
> chance to add the hdhomerun module to webcamd/cuse4bsd and how
> much work it would be. (I've CC'd him already)

It may not be that hard... I've written a python wrapper around the
hdhomerun library, and I have also written a python wrapper around
cuse4bsd...  The hard part would be understanding what Linux does,
and what it needs to return...

I can provide either/both python wrappers upon request...

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