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[veskop]

Is it possible to add this great Feature in PLi images?I see it at new BlackHole image 1.7.1 for VU+


About new feature Tuner Server:

This feature will allow you to share the tuners of this box with another Vu+ box, a PC, a Ps3 and/or a compatible UPnP device in your home network.
The server will build a virtual channels list in the folder /media/hdd/tuner on this box.
You can access the tuner(s) of this box from clients on your internal lan using nfs, cifs, UPnP or any other network mountpoint.
The tuner of the server (this box) has to be avaliable. This means that if you have ony one tuner in your box you can only stream the channel you are viewing (or any channel you choose if your box is in standby).
Remember to select the correct Audio track in the audio menu if there is no audio or the wrong language is streaming.
NOTE: The sever is built, based on your current ip and the current channel list of this box. If you change your ip or your channel list is updated, you will need to rebuild the server database.




After the server has been built you can access it from the Media Player of the client.
1) To connect via lan you have to mount the /media/hdd folder of this box in the client /media/hdd folder. Then you can access the tuners server channel list from the client Media player -> Harddisk -> tuner.
2) To connect via UPnP you have to start Mediatomb on this box and then start Djmount on the client. Then you can access the tuners server channel list for the client Media Player -> DLNA -> MediaTomb -> playlists.
You can access via the client Media Player, the channel list on the server:



Warning: because UPnP Mediatomb uses alot of system resources it is STRONGLY suggested you connect to the Tuner server via Lan and not via UPnP.
NOTE about UPnP: Because UPnP requires alot of memory, you should only use it if you need to access your box from a PS3 or other device that cannot be mounted via Lan. Also, After the server has been built we strongly suggest you delete the Bouquets directory that are not really needed BEFORE you start Mediatomb. This will save alot of memory and resources..
If you want to use UPnP remember that Mediatomb will take some time to import all the channels in the database. Connect to the Mediatomb webif to follow the importing progress when you start Mediatomb for the first time.
To share your Vu+ box hdd in the easiest way possible, the Black Hole mount wizard has been removed and substituted with the default network wizard and mount manager.
The Nfs Panel has also changed. Now you won't need to provide complicated Nfs settings to activate client and server on your boxes. The NFS server is now fully auto-configured and enabled by default and you can use it like cifs and samba to simply mount the device.



The Server Tuner Feature have been tested and reported working with
VU+ server -> Vu+ client on Lan
VU+ server -> Vu+ client on DLNA
VU+ server -> Ps3 client on DLNA
Vu+ server -> Pc client lan
Vu+ server -> Pc client DLNA
NOT working with TV DLNA systems
Many Thanks to Piefav for Ps3 testing

[veskop]

nobody?

[Messi]

http://openpli.org/f...and-developers/

http://code.google.com/p/vtuner/

Edited by Messi, 29 January 2012 - 08:19.

[littlesat]

Please note when you "share" a tuner on a box with vtuner that tuner is not available on enigma2 on the box itself... So I do not see a lot of advantage of these kind of functionality... Then you can better play streams via the standard webinterface....

[trycatch]

http://openpli.org/f...and-developers/

http://code.google.com/p/vtuner/

that is not the same thing. with blackhole tuner server, you can watch e2 channels directly from PS3 or popcorn etc (UPnP). no need to extra linux machine.

it would be great if we have that option in pli also (et9000).

thanks any way,

[razorback]

it would be really nice to have the possibility to "mount" a tuner via LAN on a MediaPlayer device like the PopcornHour since it is a mediaplayer far superior to everything we can lay our hands on on any STB.

Could you therefore give it some consideration ???

I agree however that this feature is really not necessary for accessing the STB by another STB (Partnerbox already there) or by a PC (Webinterface and VLC perfectly cover this topic)

Razorback

[trycatch]

it would be really nice to have the possibility to "mount" a tuner via LAN on a MediaPlayer device like the PopcornHour since it is a mediaplayer far superior to everything we can lay our hands on on any STB.

Could you therefore give it some consideration ???

I agree however that this feature is really not necessary for accessing the STB by another STB (Partnerbox already there) or by a PC (Webinterface and VLC perfectly cover this topic)

Razorback

could it be get from black hole and put into openpli ? or it is not the right way?

[greatred]

Sorry to ask here. But this is related to the topic. I would like to ask for a possibility to add a virtual tuner to my VU Uno. I`m sharing a DVB-S2 PCI card from my PC, I`m able to add streams to particulars channels to the Bouquets List. What is the magic keyword to search for a solution how to use that DVB-S2 card as virtual tuner?

Screenshot shows how ths tuner can be configured for sharing from the "Server" side:
[attachment=46681:Service_Options_DVBServer.png]

Edited by greatred, 1 March 2012 - 10:30.

[trycatch]

could it be get from black hole and put into openpli ? or it is not the right way?

maybe it is open source...
https://github.com/E...n-BhTunerServer

i will try it on open pli et9000 tonight....