I am looking to build a TV server for my parents (they know how to use Kodi). I want to stream DVB-S2 via TVheadend.
I’ve been reading around a bit, looks like the DVB board has support when you use a certain android version.
What about linux? Is there a linux build that has support for the DVB Chipset? Has anybody got TVheadend running on it and supporting/receiving FTA DVB-S2 streams?
I cant install it because I dont have the board (Khadas Vim OR the DVB board). My purchase of it hinges on that idea, that I could use it on a linux system.
I only tested the DTV Board in Android Nougat environment, by flashing the VIM2 with the VIM2_Nougat_vTV_V171024 firmware and I only tested the DVB-C. It didn’t find all the channels that my TV does - only found 13 channels out of aprox 120.
For DVB-S2 testing, I found a video on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyNafoA2zl0 regarding it - it is in russian but the guy seems to be pretty happy with the purchase.
If you do have the VIM2 + VTV extension it can display the 1080i channels…if the tuner manages to get the channel. Out of the aprox 130 DVB-C channels that my TV gets, I only got 13 channels on my VIM2+VTV under android.
That’s why I’m waiting for an Ubuntu VTV driver or more details on how to use the VTV under LibreELEC. I think that under other OS-es the VTV will behave differently.
But, like I said…it did manage to find and display correctly 1080i channels.