TVHeadend is a TV streaming server for your ReadyNAS supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, IPTV, SAT-IP and Analog video (V4L) (up to version 3.4) as input sources.
Requirements:
To be able to use TV Headend you’ll need at least the following:
- kernel drivers matching your ReadyNAS OS
- a supported TV USB stick (see notes below)
Also, if you want to use live streaming you’ll also need:
- either a frontend system with TV Headend support (Xbmc/Kodi, Myth TV, …)
- or an iOS / Android app that supports TV Headend backends
Please Note:
Although TV Headend supports the ATSC standard used in North America it may be most useful for european users. That’s because there’s no integrated EPG system for the U.S. channels (yet?). In most of Europe EPG information is transmitted together with the TV signal, so there’s not much need for additional EPG services there. If anyone has information about the situation in Africa, Asia and Australia, please let me know.
Supported USB TV Sticks
Since the market for TV sticks is quite diffuse and since some of the manufacturers change the hardware of their sticks without relabeling them, I can’t provide a comprehensive list of adapters supported. Also not all adapter supported by modern Linux distributions are supported on the ReadyNAS because of the kernel revision used there. So instead of providing a list of adapters here is a “negative list” of drivers from the LinuxTV project that were not built for use on the ReadyNAS:
| Driver Name | Reason |
|---|---|
| VIDEO_CX231XX | Requires at least kernel 4.7.0 |
| VIDEO_SOLO6X10 | Requires at least kernel 4.5.0 |
| VIDEO_MUX | Requires at least kernel 4.13.0 |
| RADIO_WL128X | Requires at least kernel 4.13.0 |
| VIDEO_DW9714 | Requires at least kernel 9.255.255 |
| VIDEO_OV5670 | Requires at least kernel 4.10.0 |
| VIDEO_OV13858 | Requires at least kernel 4.5.0 |
| DVB_M88DS3103 | Requires at least kernel 4.7.0 |
| DVB_CXD2820R | Requires at least kernel 4.6.0 |
| DVB_RTL2830 | Requires at least kernel 4.7.0 |
| DVB_RTL2832 | Requires at least kernel 4.7.0 |
| DVB_SI2168 | Requires at least kernel 4.7.0 |
| DVB_LGDT3306A | Requires at least kernel 4.7.0 |
| INTEL_ATOMISP | Requires at least kernel 9.255.255 |
For more information about supported hardware and the corresponding drivers please consult the list at LinuxTV.org.
Configuration
Configuration of TVHeadend is explained in detail on the TVHeadend configuaration page.
| Release date: | December 27, 2014 |
| Last updated: | February 23, 2018 |
| Current version: | 4.3-1112 |
| Product type: | ReadyNAS OS 6 Add-On (x86) |
| File format: | .deb |
| File size: | 13M |
| Requirements: | ReadyNAS OS 6.x (x86) |
