How do I install TVHeadend server 4.3 on my RPi3B+

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I can’t find TVHeadend server 4.3 in the standard repositories. Please point me in the right direction (documentation or guideline).
Greetings from Vienna/Austria,
Heinz

2

Version 4.3 has never been officially released. The TVH devs have been struggling but there’s now new blood in the team and a 4.4 might emerge in due course.

Meanwhile you can grab this that I’ve made from the latest ‘rolling’ version and install it with

systemctl stop tvheadend
sudo dpkg -i armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc.deb
systemctl start tvheadend

It works on Vero - no reason why it shouldn’t work on RPi3B+.

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Hello grahamh,
many thanks for your help.
It’s a fresh installation of OSMC and there is no previous TVHeadend, so no need to stop tvheadend.
sudo dpkg -i armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc.deb has a lot of dependency errors (sorry they are in german but I’m shure you understand what’s missing:

Entpacken von armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc (4.2.8-6) …
dpkg: Abhängigkeitsprobleme verhindern Konfiguration von armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc:
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von dvb-firmware-osmc; aber:
Paket dvb-firmware-osmc ist nicht installiert.
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von dvb-tools; aber:
Paket dvb-tools ist nicht installiert.
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von liburiparser1; aber:
Paket liburiparser1 ist nicht installiert.
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von libhdhomerun4; aber:
Paket libhdhomerun4 ist nicht installiert.
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von bzip2; aber:
Paket bzip2 ist nicht installiert.
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von liburiparser1; aber:
Paket liburiparser1 ist nicht installiert.
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc hängt ab von libdvbcsa1; aber:
Paket libdvbcsa1 ist nicht installiert.

dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc (–install):
Abhängigkeitsprobleme - verbleibt unkonfiguriert
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc

How do I solve this?
Greetings from Vienna/Austria,
Heinz

4

First install tvheadend from the AppStore. Then follow the procedure above.
After installing the new version,
sudo apt-mark hold armv7-tvheadend-osmc will stop it reverting to 4.2.8.

Soon, we’ll make ‘4.3’ the default as it seems to be stable.

5

curious, any particular bug fixes or new features that stand out? I use TVHE a lot, and it’s running on a Vero, so interested in potential updates. Thanks.

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You can have a look at the TVH site and/or github. For everyday use with UK FTA channels I haven’t noticed any improvements or regressions after building and installing it a year ago. Having said that, it may have reverted to 4.2.8 at some point as I didn’t do that apt-mark hold thing - only noticed that problem today. At least it means you can try the deb I linked and if it doesn’t work, just dist-upgrade and it will revert.

I was alarmed to find the tag 4.3 dates from 2017 but they’ve never managed to declare a ‘stable’ version. Apparently it is stable but ‘rolling’ - so any new commit could cause it to become unstable. Go figure.

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