Install Tvheadend on Ubuntu 14.04
Tvheadend is a TV streaming server for Linux. Hardware devices can be managed and live TV can be viewed directly via the web interface albeit with somewhat of an outdated user interface. It makes a great back-end to a media centre such as Kodi. Among other things it can also record based on user defined schedule.
Install Tvheadend
Add a PPA repository.
sudo apt-add-repository -r http://ppa.launchpad.net/adamsutton/tvheadend
Import the GPG signing key.
curl http://apt.tvheadend.org/repo.gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -
Add the repository.
sudo apt-add-repository http://apt.tvheadend.org/stable
To receive more bleeding edge release stable can be replaced by beta or unstable.
Update the package list.
sudo apt-get update
Install the package.
sudo apt-get install tvheadend
Enter administrator username and password when asked.
Configure TvHeadend
Create a system user and group.
sudo useradd -r -s /bin/false -m tvheadend
Optionally add the user to secondary groups.
sudo usermod -a -G nzbget,utserver tvheadend
Run Tvheadend
Create a new upstart script.
sudo nano /etc/init/tvheadend.conf
Copy the script and save the configuration file.
description "Tvheadend upstart script" author "DominicM @ dominicm.com" # What user to run as setuid tvheadend # What group to run as setgid tvheadend # When to start the service start on runlevel [2345] # When to stop the service stop on runlevel [016] # Automatically restart process if crashed respawn # Start the process script exec /usr/local/bin/tvheadend -f -u root -g video -s -C end script
Run Tvheadend with upstart.
start tvheadend
Use TvHeadend
Access Tvheadend in your browser on the default port 9981 and the current IP address. For example http://192.168.0.100:9981/. Log in with the administrator username and password entered earlier.