hdhomerun & dvr - prefer tvheadend

[Bryce Edwards]

On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Bryce Edwards <bryce at bryce.net<javascript:;>>
> 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)
>
> --
> Bernhard Froehlich
> http://www.bluelife.at/
>

What about other DVR software options?  FreeBSD and hdhomerun support are
my ideal requirements. I'll also play with running linux under virtualbox
but was hoping to avoid that and use a jail.

It's unfortunate that they took an 'integrated'  approach on a network
based tuner but I understand using a consistent implementation for all
tuners.