Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 14:32:11 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: Bernhard =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F6hlich?= <decke@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hdhomerun & dvr - prefer tvheadend Message-ID: <20140204223211.GG89104@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <CAE-m3X3DRhnQe1Qa-jNTdMuHHd-Hq=WTNNBWfCv0sg41mO5HLw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAO_ZHU-v%2B=-q03izV6EdCsn81teNkj9irgeBJDAYGZNdg-TZcQ@mail.gmail.com> <CAE-m3X3DRhnQe1Qa-jNTdMuHHd-Hq=WTNNBWfCv0sg41mO5HLw@mail.gmail.com>
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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@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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