Pandaboard ES and Cubox with TV Headend

[stephen...@gmail.com]

Hi all

New in these parts. Apologies in advance for any poor etiquette.

Have got both a Pandaboard ES and a Solid-run Cubox (I know - sucker for low power ARM stuff)

I've installed Geexbox 3.0 releases on both, and as I've run TV Headend on Pogoplug and other stuff in the past thought I'd give it a go.

Bit of a learning curve as I'm used to Ubuntu/Debian standard install shells - so Busybox a bit baffling for someone as new to this as me.  But fired up vi and edited the /etc/pvr.conf file.

Experience so far :

Pandaboard release doesn't appear to have TV Headend package? (Compared the rootfs with the Cubox version which does). When I tried an opkg update / opkg install tvheadend I got an error along the lines of no such package.  However the XBMC experience on Panda is pretty slick - very responsive. (Much faster than Raspberry Pi)

Cubox release does have TV Headend - but even after opkg update / opkg upgrade when I go to http://my.cubox.ip.addr:9981 I get a blank page with the title HTS Tvheadend at address my.cubox.ip.addr/extjs.html  XBMC feels a bit more sluggish - and there is a lag between key presses and sound effects.

I thought I'd try vdr instead on my Cubox - but I don't seem to be able to run (or install) w_scan as suggested in the PVR guide (is that a non-ARM package?) to create a channels.conf file. Can't see it in the opkg list or anywhere in the cubox tar.bz2

Sure it's something simple I'm doing wrong.

Useful to have some pointers if anyone has time?

Thanks for the great work here.

[Thomas Genty]

Le 26/09/2012 02:00, nog...@invalid.net a écrit :
> Hi all
>
> New in these parts. Apologies in advance for any poor etiquette.
>
> Have got both a Pandaboard ES and a Solid-run Cubox (I know - sucker
> for low power ARM stuff)
>
> I've installed Geexbox 3.0 releases on both, and as I've run TV
> Headend on Pogoplug and other stuff in the past thought I'd give it a go.
>
> Bit of a learning curve as I'm used to Ubuntu/Debian standard install
> shells - so Busybox a bit baffling for someone as new to this as me.
> But fired up vi and edited the /etc/pvr.conf file.
>
> Experience so far :
>
> Pandaboard release doesn't appear to have TV Headend package?
> (Compared the rootfs with the Cubox version which does). When I tried
> an opkg update / opkg install tvheadend I got an error along the lines
> of no such package. However the XBMC experience on Panda is pretty
> slick - very responsive. (Much faster than Raspberry Pi)

I will add it, mistake from my side

>
> Cubox release does have TV Headend - but even after opkg update / opkg
> upgrade when I go to http://my.cubox.ip.addr:9981 I get a blank page
> with the title HTS Tvheadend at address my.cubox.ip.addr/extjs.html
> XBMC feels a bit more sluggish - and there is a lag between key
> presses and sound effects.
>

there was a bug in released version, version2 of tvheadend should work.
uploaded

> I thought I'd try vdr instead on my Cubox - but I don't seem to be
> able to run (or install) w_scan as suggested in the PVR guide (is that
> a non-ARM package?) to create a channels.conf file. Can't see it in
> the opkg list or anywhere in the cubox tar.bz2

fixed

>
> Sure it's something simple I'm doing wrong.
>
> Useful to have some pointers if anyone has time?

that is the problem : time
should be fixed for cubox
Please, update & upgrade with opkg
Need time for Panda

>
> Thanks for the great work here.

Tom

[Thomas Genty]

Le 26/09/2012 08:44, Thomas Genty a écrit :
> Le 26/09/2012 02:00, nog...@invalid.net a écrit :
>> Hi all
>>
>> New in these parts. Apologies in advance for any poor etiquette.
>>
>> Have got both a Pandaboard ES and a Solid-run Cubox (I know - sucker
>> for low power ARM stuff)
>>
>> I've installed Geexbox 3.0 releases on both, and as I've run TV
>> Headend on Pogoplug and other stuff in the past thought I'd give it a
>> go.
>>
>> Bit of a learning curve as I'm used to Ubuntu/Debian standard install
>> shells - so Busybox a bit baffling for someone as new to this as me.
>> But fired up vi and edited the /etc/pvr.conf file.
>>
>> Experience so far :
>>
>> Pandaboard release doesn't appear to have TV Headend package?
>> (Compared the rootfs with the Cubox version which does). When I tried
>> an opkg update / opkg install tvheadend I got an error along the
>> lines of no such package. However the XBMC experience on Panda is
>> pretty slick - very responsive. (Much faster than Raspberry Pi)
> I will add it, mistake from my side

done

Tom

[stephen...@gmail.com]

Brilliant - many thanks Tom.  Have just installed TV Headend on the Pandaboard ES and it's happily tuning channels using my USB DVB-T/T2 tuner stick.  

Will give the Cubox a go a bit later - the Pandaboard experience seems to be a bit better in general XBMC terms so far.

Very much appreciated.

Steve

 

[Jaap van Otterdijk]

I have a problem with the cubox build. It could be that I did something wrong during the build. But I cleaned it an rebuilded it several times. But each time the image is not found during the boot. Do I have to post some debug information to help you guys reproduce the problem?

Best regards

Jaap

[Thomas Genty]

Le 27/09/2012 22:12, Jaap van Otterdijk a �crit :

> I have a problem with the cubox build. It could be that I did something
> wrong during the build.

i you use defconfig, no

But I cleaned it an rebuilded it several times.
> But each time the image is not found during the boot.

did you flash your cubox with latest u-boot from Solidrun ?
you need it, else revert r15871

Tom