hdhomerun & dvr - prefer tvheadend

[Bryce Edwards]

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

>
> Am 04.02.2014 20:04 schrieb "Bryce Edwards" <bryce at bryce.net<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bryce at bryce.net');>
> >:
> >
> > On Tuesday, February 4, 2014, Bernhard Fröhlich <decke at freebsd.org<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','decke at freebsd.org');>>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Bryce Edwards <bryce at bryce.net<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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)
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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.
>
> Since virtualbox only supports usb passthrough right now this won't give
> you any benefits. On modern enough hardware you could use bhyve which
> already supports pci passthrough and linux guests but you need a vt-d
> capable hardware.
>
> From hardware side the best solution would be an dvb usb device that is
> supported by webcamd. The you can choose between vdr, mythtv,
> tvheadend/xbmc, vlc and a few more.
>
> With hdhomerun the list is a bit smaller but at least vlc and mythtv
> should still work fine - not sure about the others.
>
> > It's unfortunate that they took an 'integrated'  approach on a network
> based tuner but I understand using a consistent implementation for all
> tuners.
>

Good info, thanks Bernhard.  If getting new hardware for dual tuner
capability in the US for ATSC, what do folks out there recommend for
freebsd+tvheadend?