HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

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cata
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by cata »

I checked and the logs are not overlapping.

On the minisatip I did not see anything wrong and as you can see in "Start streaming" messages, minisatip sends data to the client.

But I saw couple of issues in the plex tuner service logs:
[E] sat2ip_streamer::send_describe_command. Zero frontends are detected
WARN - [E] dvb_channel_scanner_t::do_scan. Tune failed for

If you can provide a log that contains the same period I can try to see if something is wrong.
Jondalar
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by Jondalar »

Hi cata,

second try ... just did the scan a few minutes ago. Minisatip output and then plex tuner log.

https://paste.ee/p/nZjbf

Minisatip is at 192.168.242.58 in the logs.

Maybe they "misinterpret" the response/stream ... Shall I run a similar scan with the octopus and paste the log ?

Cheers
Alex
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by cata »

Hi,

the only idea I have is that the signal is reported a bit later. But even after that there are still errors.

Are you in contact with the developers?

I suppose the sources are not free right ?

Thanks
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by Jondalar »

Hi Cata,

strange ... ok. Then we know it is not minisatip per se. I will try to attach a DVB UDB stick to the VM and see if the "lag" is gone by then, I think I still have one somewhere from my EyeTV experiments that might work with Linux.

Yes, I am in the closed Beta group for PlexDVR since the beginning. Shall I ask if they want to get in touch with you? I assume the Tuner code is closed source, although the reuse a lot of OSS projects (e.g. their encoder is FFMPEG).

Cheers,
Alex
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by cata »

Hi,

I am open on discussing with the developers on any existing issues.

Yes, please try the DVB USB stick and let me know how it works. The signal should be read pretty fast after tuning.

Thank you
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by cata »

Try also the latest commit, it should attempt to get the satip signal faster
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by Jondalar »

Hi cata,

I checked with the new version, inkl. my eyeTV USB Stick attached to the VM, and it is the same behavior. I can very quickly tune/switch channels if I use a .m3u in VLC, but PlexDVR still does not "find" any channels in their channel scan step.

Will post you directly on what the plex Team finds/says and try to make contact.

Cheers
Alex
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by tunip »

Same issue here for satellite channels.

Code: Select all

Oct 04, 2017 09:31:50.942 [0x7f3e76496700] INFO - [I] channel_scanner_t::scan_channels. Scanned 10 transponder out of 120. Channels found 0
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:50.991 [0x7f3e75c95700] INFO - [I] CTVSStreamSource::TuneTransponder. Transponder tuning request: diseqc 0, freq 10861000, modulation 1, polarization 0, symbol rate 22000000, LOF 9750000, LNB selection signal 0, FEC 35
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:50.991 [0x7f3e75c95700] INFO - [I] CTVSStreamSource::SelectLNB. Selecting LNB for diseqc value 0
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:50.995 [0x7f3e74c56700] INFO - [I] sat2ip_streamer::control_thread_func. Control thread is finished
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.018 [0x7f3e47fff700] INFO - [I] sat2ip_streamer::reception_thread_func. Reception thread is finished
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.018 [0x7f3e75c95700] INFO - [I] get_sat2ip_tuning_string. Resulting string freq=10861&pol=h&msys=dvbs2&mtype=8psk&sr=22000&fec=23&ro=0.35&plts=off
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.019 [0x7f3e74c56700] INFO - [I] sat2ip_streamer::reception_thread_func. Reception thread is started
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.019 [0x7f3e47fff700] INFO - [I] sat2ip_streamer::control_thread_func. Control thread is started
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.019 [0x7f3e75c95700] WARN - [W] sat2ip_streamer::start_reception. pthread_setschedparam failed 1
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.070 [0x7f3e47fff700] WARN - [E] sat2ip_streamer::send_describe_command. Zero frontends are detected
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.173 [0x7f3e47fff700] WARN - [E] sat2ip_streamer::send_describe_command. Zero frontends are detected
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.276 [0x7f3e47fff700] WARN - [E] sat2ip_streamer::send_describe_command. Zero frontends are detected
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.379 [0x7f3e47fff700] WARN - [E] sat2ip_streamer::send_describe_command. Zero frontends are detected
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.482 [0x7f3e47fff700] WARN - [E] sat2ip_streamer::send_describe_command. Zero frontends are detected
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.581 [0x7f3e79c9d700] INFO - [I] web_service_t::process_device_status
Oct 04, 2017 09:31:51.581 [0x7f3e79c9d700] INFO - [I] sat2ip_tuner_factory_t::get_tuner_info. device uuid:11223344-9999-0000-b7ae-02420a0a0a42, frontend index 0
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by Jondalar »

hi all,

quick update - the root of this is within PlexDVR. It's tuner API simply does not work with minisatip. I am in touch with them and will get information to Cata.

Kind regards,
Alex
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Re: HDHomeRun emulator using minisatip?

Post by Brendann993 »

Jondalar do you know if the Sat>IP supports has been released to plexpass users? I cant find any mention of it.
Jondalar wrote: Wed Sep 06, 2017 5:35 pm hi,

just a side note - I am beta testing Plex DVR since the beginning and right now they added SAT>IP support. For my Octopus A8 (DVBC2) it works fine, but for minisatip there are some quirks. (they call the msys=dvbc instead of msys=dvbc2, and that works on the Octopus but not in minisat from how I read the logs)

However, once this is solved, it will work I guess.

Cheers
J*
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