Application

Tvheadend

Description

Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and recorder for Linux, FreeBSD and Android supporting DVB-S, DVB-S2, DVB-C, DVB-T, ATSC, ISDB-T, IPTV, SAT>IP and HDHomeRun as input sources. Tvheadend offers the HTTP (VLC, MPlayer), HTSP (Kodi, Movian) and SAT>IP streaming. Multiple EPG sources are supported (over-the-air DVB and ATSC including OpenTV DVB extensions, XMLTV, PyXML).

Build notes

Latest stable Tvheadend release from Arch Linux AUR.

Usage

docker run -d \
    -p 9981:9981 \
    -p 9982:9982 \
    --name=<container name> \
    -v <path for data files>:/data \
    -v <path for config files>:/config \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    --device=/dev/<tuner type> \
    -e HEALTHCHECK_COMMAND=<command> \
    -e HEALTHCHECK_ACTION=<action> \
    -e HEALTHCHECK_HOSTNAME=<hostname> \
    -e UMASK=<umask for created files> \
    -e PUID=<uid for user> \
    -e PGID=<gid for user> \
    binhex/arch-tvheadend

Please replace all user variables in the above command defined by <> with the correct values.

Access HTTP

http://<host ip>:9981

Access HTSP

http://<host ip>:9982

Example

docker run -d \
    -p 9981:9981 \
    -p 9982:9982 \
    --name=tvheadend \
    -v /apps/docker/tvheadend/recorded:/data \
    -v /apps/docker/tvheadend:/config \
    -v /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro \
    --device=/dev/dvb \
    -e UMASK=000 \
    -e PUID=0 \
    -e PGID=0 \
    binhex/arch-tvheadend

Notes

User ID (PUID) and Group ID (PGID) can be found by issuing the following command for the user you want to run the container as:-

id <username>

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