Linux server native libhdhomerun

[mwnswiss]

I proposed a change to upgrade the current third_party/SiliconDust/libhdhomerun to the newest release from SiliconDust 20150615.

This upgrade impacts the native/so/HDHomeRun2.0/sage_HDHomeRun.cp, the version function call changed from the current version to the latest.

It works for me on Linux (ubuntu 14.04) 64bit with a HDHR hdhomerun3_dvbc, but I couldn't test 32bit and not any US HDHR products (using ATSC and QAM), nor DVB-T.

If you could run a test and log it here for ATSC or QAM would be great in order to get confirmation that still all runs with this upgrade.

The pull request is https://github.com/google/sagetv/pull/27 - use the specific commit to compile and run.

Be aware: this is libhdhomerun native, not using the dvbhdhomerun kernel modules on linux!

[Taddeusz]

I'd been playing around with updating the libhdhomerun today. I actually used the latest one that just came out yesterday, 20150826. Seems to work fine with both ATSC & QAM.

However, looks like in 20150826 they completely deprecated hdhomerun_discover_find_devices_custom and replaced it with hdhomerun_discover_find_devices_custom_v2. Looks like the parameters are identical. Changed it without any apparent consequences.

[mwnswiss]

Discovered that update as well, but I have some troubles with the 20150826 build, could not figure out why. I stay currently on the 20150618 build. I would say now we can pull it in as narflex suggested. Afterwards I will start to work on the 0826 update and will do another loop like this one if it runs on my side.

I started to work on proper discovery of all tuners, which is just hardcoded to 2 tuners per device, however mine has 4. See sage_HDHomeRun.cp and search for "// TODO: get actual number and types of tuners, types needed for DVB-T support" - it just make 2 tuners by default. I see a need to check the number of tuners. I would currently do something like:

// get number of tuners for this device
int tunernumber = 0;
int hdreturn = 1;
for (tunernumber=0; hdreturn > 0; tunernumber++) {
	hdhomerun_device_set_tuner(hd, tunernumber);
}
DebugLog(env, "New HDHomeRun device tuner count %d\n", tunernumber);

[mwnswiss]

libhdhomerun 20150615 merged into sagetv. Updated correct tuner count (including support for devices with more than 2 tuners), as well merged into sagetv.

Will start to work on upgrading to 20150826.

[hugenbdd]

Any word on if the latest HDHR lib was integrated with SageTV?

I'm running the Docker Image on unRAID. It picks up a lot of channels, but seems to be missing some channels that work in windows.

Thanks
Dave