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Is it possible to to run IceBox & Kodi in Ubuntu ?

No, not as it currently stands.

IceBox is based on LibreELEC.  LibreELEC is a minimal Linux distribution that has Kodi pre-installed and an easily installable TVHeadEnd module.

The IceBox bundles all of this, plus their own Kodi add-on that interfaces between the ICE TV servers and TVHeadEnd.

So, you can install Kodi and TVHEadend on Ubuntu, however, the ICE TV add-on expects to see a LibreELEC installation with certain pre-installed files in certain locations and will not run unmodified on a standard Ubuntu platform.

Thanks.

Oh well. I had hoped.....

Is it possible to to run IceBox & Kodi in Ubuntu ?

I Have kept my Topfield for old times sake, and it is still supported by IceTV. Like many PVRs of its vintage it suffered failure of its power supply, which after being fixed by Warkus will probably outlast all of us.

I had to replace my Toppy TF7100 after Thor decided that I needed to have a lightning strike hit the phoneline right outside my door a couple of years ago.
The strike fried the modem, and then my ethernet network, and the ethernet port on the Toppy :(

Switched to the Humax and it's been nothing but shite !
I will give IceTV props for support in arranging replacements while Humax was still a going concern in the PVR field here in Oz, but I'm on my third in 3 & 1/2 years, and the current one has had a HDD replacement in 18 months since I got it, and has started doing the spontaneous crash and reboot.

Which is why I'm exploring the IceBox software on a BYOD.
(just don't have the $449 sitting in my bank account, to buy a complete IceBox solution)

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If you have a single USB Turner then you can simultaneously record all the programs being transmitted by one network. My record is recording 14 concurrent programs over 5 tuners.

How did you manage to get the IceBox to allocate all the recordings on one network to a single tuner ?

Inquiring minds.....

...so TVheadEnd will share the load across both USB dongles:

I'm not quite sure what sharing the load across the USB dongles will achieve, if they are all fed from a common RF source.

You can check performance at Status|Stream.

My thought was that if I was recording two programs at the same time, and have set the dongle priorities as I described, then I'd get one program through each dongle, and therefore one program through each USB port/pipe ?

On a side note:

Is it worth while in the "Advanced Settings" section setting the priority value across the two tuner dongles, so TVheadEnd will share the load across both USB dongles:

Recording #1 on USB Tuner 1, input 1, then if I have a second recording scheduled that overlaps, then:
Recording #2 on USB Tuner 2, input 1, then if I have a third recording scheduled that overlaps, then:
Recording #3 on USB Tuner 1, input 2, then if I have a fourth recording scheduled that overlaps, then:
Recording #4 on USB Tuner 2, input 2.

So the priority values would be:
USB Tuner 1, input 1: 100
USB Tuner 1, input 2: 60
USB Tuner 2, input 1: 80
USB Tuner 2, input 2: 40

Actually, clicking through the TVheadEnd interface in the browser I think I've solved it ?

In the TVheadEnd "webpage" I went into Configuration>DVB Inputs>TV adapters  I noticed that the parameters of the active dongle were different to the inactive one.

In Basic Settings, I enabled the two tuner inputs on the second dongle, and also enabled the "Over-the-air EPG: checkboxs

I'm currently recording programs across ABC, SBS, Ch 10 and Ch 9

I'll wait for them to finish, and see if there's anything there to confirm....



Hopefully smarter heads will see this and confirm I've gotten it right ?

I think (Ouch that hurts !) I may have partly answered my own question ?

Reading through: https://forum.icetv.com.au/iceforum/index.php?topic=7630.0 I read about accessing the "TVheadEnd" through a web browser, and discovered I can see lots of useful info ?

In DVB Inputs I can see I have 4 tuner inputs ?
So evidently IceBox is seeing the tuners but can't use them all ?

 TV adapters
● /dev/dvb/adapter0 [DiBcom 7000PC #0] ● DiBcom 7000PC #0 : DVB-T #0
● /dev/dvb/adapter1 [DiBcom 7000PC #1] ● DiBcom 7000PC #1 : DVB-T #0
● /dev/dvb/adapter2 [DiBcom 7000PC #2] ● DiBcom 7000PC #2 : DVB-T #0
● /dev/dvb/adapter3 [DiBcom 7000PC #3] ● DiBcom 7000PC #3 : DVB-T #0

So is there something I can do to enable access to both USB Tuner Dongle ?

cheers

furbies
                                           

On a BYOB (HP EliteDesk 800 G4 SFF) and I've got two Elgato Diversity (dual tuner) USB dongles I want to use...

If I have one dongle plugged in (both antenna plugs connected), I can record two programs.
If I plug in both dongles (all antenna plugs connected), I can still only record two programs.
(IceBox complains when the timers trip, and reports a "conflict", even though it let me schedule more timers than I'm allowed ?)

Is there a way to enable both dongles so I can record 4 programs simultaneously ?
And is there a way to see just how many dongles IceBox/LibreElec can actively see ?

And is there some way to "manually edit" the channels directly ?
IceBox has "mistuned" 9GO! to be on channel 99 instead of channel 93 which is what my (failing) Humax has it on.

cheers

furbies

Well off topic but:

...and that's where the faecal matter impacted the air movement device. 

Wot a expressive turn of phrase....

Hi,

I suppose it's possible that the capacitor could cause intermittant reboots on it's way to failure. In my experience (a sample size of 2), the symptoms are a boot loop on power-on that never resolves. The boxes I put a 2.5in drive in are still working fine.

Ned

Don't suppose you documented your repair process so I could see which cap it is, and how you did the repair ?

(fingers crossed)

furbies

I don't know if anyone is looking at this, but I think I've answered my own question. Further research has indicated that this problem is caused by a failed electrolytic capacitor in the 12V HDD power supply. This causes the Humax to detect a faulty power rail and reboot when the disk is powered up. This explains why the SSD and the 2.5in HDD worked, while 3.5in drives didn't, as those form factors only use the 5V supply. For the moment, I'll use these two disks to keep the boxes going until something else fails :-(

Ned

Ned

does your "failed electrolytic capacitor" idea also maybe cause the Humax to go into a bootloop at times ? Or to spontaneously decide to reboot ?

regards

furbies...

Dear EPG Gnomes

Tonight's episode 14/Dec/2017 @ 8.00PM WAS NOT A REPEAT, but was marked as a repeat by IceTV !

I would have missed it except I knew not to trust the IceGuide, and so I manually told EyeTV to record it.

Please triple check your data  !

I had the IceTV EPG set to record both (SBS VICELAND) Full Frontal With Samantha Bee and (ABC) The Checkout, but ended up with two recordings of The Checkout instead. Why, oh why did this happen ?

Even more weirdly, in EyeTV, the program info for the Full Frontal ep appears to show correctly. Right program info/channel/start time, but EyeTV recorded the signal from ABC instead of SBS VICELAND

regards

VERY ANNOYED (to put it politely)  >:(

furbies

Hi furbies,

I hope you are monitoring this thread of yours.

I have been testing the 30 minute version of your EyeTV EPG Updater V3 and the update intervals seem quite random. Worst case was a 2 hour interval and best cases were 31 minutes and 43 minutes.

• When you were testing it did you try increasing the delays from 1 to 2? (I assume "delay 1" is 1 second)
• Did you try using fixed schedules? Maybe on the hour and half hour instead of waiting 30 minutes from the last update.

cheers
Dave

Dave

The script works on elapsed time since start.

If you're looking in the EyeTV preferences / Guide window where EyeTV indicates when it last updated, that time/date doesn't always correctly show when it actually last updated. I suspect there's a a UI update bug involved.  A way to confirm EyeTV is updating I found is to leave the Preferences / Guide window open.

Dave check my user account "furbies" and it should show how often my IceTV is updating via my AppleScript "widget". I'm running the 2 hour update variant.

Regards

furbies