Tvheadend failed to install on RPi3

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Hello everybody,
using XBM/Kodi for a long time, now for a new challenge. Our TV transmission will change from DVB-T to DVB-T2 (HEVC) - that my TV set doesn’t do. So I want to use tvheadend on my RPi3.

When installing tvheadend from GUI an error appears.“Error installing armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc. Please report to the osmc forum.” and “Some packages were not installed/removed. Details have been written to the Kodi log.”

I uploaded logs: http://paste.osmc.io/pucuwosemu

Is it impossible to install tvheadend before the USB TV tuner is installed???

Thanks in advance for your help!

Greeting, Arnd

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Job for tvheadend.service failed. See 'systemctl status tvheadend.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
dpkg: error processing package armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u7) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc

You should check the journal to find out why TVH won’t start.

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thank you sam for your quick reply.

when i ask for systemctl status tvheadend.service it says loaded, active, exited status=127.
And no journal files found.
From the error in the GUI it looks like not installed - but here it looks like installed but exited.
Perhaps I really have to put in a tuner stick first?
I still do not know which tuner will work for my situation…
Greetings, Arnd

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127 indeed means not installed

try sudo apt-get install --reinstall armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc

We’ll produce some TV tuners soon I think. Do you want DVB-T2 or DVB-S2?

Sam

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Good morning!
From reinstall I get: E: Internal Error, No file name for armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc:armhf - ???
The tuner question … at the moment we have DVB-T and from october DVB-T2 with HEVC ie H265.
Best would be a tuner that does both for testing now and quick change then.
Greetings, Arnd

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Assuming that you also want to watch the encrypted channels of DVB-T2 there is currently no such stick with Linux support and the likelihood that it will come anytime soon is low.

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Seems you have a bigger problem than. When I run the command I get

osmc@osmc:~$ sudo apt-get install --reinstall armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
rbp2-image-4.4.27-7-osmc
Use ‘apt-get autoremove’ to remove it.
The following extra packages will be installed:
dvb-firmware-osmc dvb-tools libdvbv5-0 libhdhomerun1 liburiparser1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc dvb-firmware-osmc dvb-tools libdvbv5-0 libhdhomerun1 liburiparser1
0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 9 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,415 kB of archives.
After this operation, 18.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

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Thanks for your answer. And no, I don’t need the encrypted channels. How about this one: http://www.ebay.de/itm/282388805408 ?

Okay the installation thing. I removed tvheadend again + autoremove and started over again. Looked like you posted. Hit Yes and after installing lots of packages machine said same things like before :frowning:

Greetings, Arnd

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Well as it doesn’t have much details about the brand or the chipset it’s hard to say. Your first step for support in OSMC is finding a device that has Linux kernel driver support, see here DVB-T2 USB Devices - LinuxTVWiki

But that being said the issue still remains that German DVB-T2 is kind of special so you need to watch out having the right support.
I think I one time read (here on the forum) that sundtek sticks works but not sure if the driver problems with OSMC have been solved

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Provide grab-logs -A once more

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okay here it is: http://paste.osmc.io/zotijubuwi
Thank you!

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Okay so this is the first time things went wrong. So I suggest your remove whatever you have wanted to install there

Also remove deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org jessie main non-free from your sources

Start-Date: 2017-03-24 19:34:32
Install: libswresample1:armhf (2.6.9-dmo1, automatic), libx264-146:armhf (0.146.2538+git121396c-dmo2, automatic), libzvbi0:armhf (0.2.35-3, automatic), libbluray1:armhf (0.7.0-dmo1, automatic), libzvbi-common:armhf (0.2.35-3, automatic), liburiparser1:armhf (0.8.0.1-2, automatic), liborc-0.4-0:armhf (0.4.22-1, automatic), libfaac0:armhf (1.28-dmo3+deb8u1, automatic), libhdhomerun1:armhf (20140604-2, automatic), libx265-51:armhf (1.6-dmo1, automatic), libopus0:armhf (1.1-2, automatic), libopencore-amrnb0:armhf (0.1.3-2.1, automatic), dvb-tools:armhf (1.6.0-2, automatic), libavutil54:armhf (2.6.9-dmo1, automatic), libvo-aacenc0:armhf (0.1.3-1, automatic), bzip2:armhf (1.0.6-7+b3, automatic), libaacplus2:armhf (2.0.2-dmo2, automatic), libspeex1:armhf (1.2~rc1.2-1, automatic), libfdk-aac1:armhf (0.1.4-dmo1, automatic), libutvideo15:armhf (15.1.0-dmo2, automatic), libopencore-amrwb0:armhf (0.1.3-2.1, automatic), dvb-firmware-osmc:armhf (1.0.1, automatic), libdvbv5-0:armhf (1.6.0-2, automatic), libopenjpeg5:armhf (1.5.2-3, automatic), armv7-tvheadend-app-osmc:armhf (4.0.9-3), libmp3lame0:armhf (3.99.5-dmo4, automatic), libswscale3:armhf (2.6.9-dmo1, automatic), libtheora0:armhf (1.1.1+dfsg.1-6, automatic), libvo-amrwbenc0:armhf (0.1.3-1, automatic), libxvidcore4:armhf (1.3.3-dmo1, automatic), libavformat56:armhf (2.6.9-dmo1, automatic), libavcodec56:armhf (2.6.9-dmo1, automatic), libgsm1:armhf (1.0.13-4, automatic), libschroedinger-1.0-0:armhf (1.0.11-2.1, automatic), libvpx1:armhf (1.3.0-3, automatic)
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
End-Date: 2017-03-24 19:38:43

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Okay, sorry for beeing lazy. I burned a new OSMC image to new microSD card and tvheadend installed without errors. Restored settings backup - fine.
Thanks for your help so far. Im waiting for the DVBT2 USB dongle to arrive. To be continued …

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Hello Everybody,
only back to say anything is good upto now. Tvheadend works on my Rpi3, the dongle linked above is fine. It has inside:
Panasonic MN88473 and Realtek RTL2832 PLUS a IR Remote sensor so you can use your TV Remote for Rpi too without soldering.
Upto now means DVB-T(1) works fine. In September we get DVB-T2 with H265 and we will see.
Best regards!