• By Mark H
  (small updates by Khrusher)
  

Instructions compiled from the knoppmyth forum MythstreamTV theads and all the hard work by Khrusher and others.

This page will show you how to add LiveTV streaming. Make sure MythstreamTV (of recordings) is working first!

Prerequesites/warnings

For troubleshooting please see and post to this thread:
http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4778&highlight= (That way everyones questions will follow the same thread and path!)

1a) Assure vlc is built with --enable-pvr config option

Mythstream setup includes a list of config options that are required when VLC is built. The original list did not consider live PVR streams. Be sure you run the vlc config step with --enable-pvr and rebuild

1) assure the webserver process can read the device files

There are two was to do this, add the www-data user to the group that has access to the devices or let everyone have access to devices

Option 1

Option 2

Note: the following two tar files have been added to the wiki as attachments, you can use link at bottom of page

2) Get the scripts

cd /myth/stream
wget http://www.chrismenard.com/mythstreamLive/myth_stream.tar
tar -xvf myth_stream.tar
nano /myth/stream/parseTunerStatus.sh
Change the ip in MYTH_WEB_STATUS? to correct information:
Note: If you have mythweb secured with username/password you can use this:
=http://user:pass@192.168.0.3/mythweb/status.php
(Substitute user, pass and ip with correct information)

3) get the PHP files

cd /var/www/mythweb
wget http://www.chrismenard.com/mythstreamLive/var_www_mythweb.tar
tar -xvf var_www_mythweb.tar
(puts files in /var/www/mythweb and /var/www/mythweb/themes/Default)

nano /var/www/mythweb/themes/Default/mythstreamtvLive_createfile.php and put YOUR server IP in 4 places (search for IP).

Similar to this:
Launch Stream...href="mms://www.mysite.com:8001?">mms://www.mysite.com:8001? and ...href="http://www.mysite.com:8001">http://www.mysite.com:8001
(You can substitute www.mysite.com for the IP of your router too)

4) add a function to the existing channels.php file to list current shows

(backup first)
cp /var/www/mythweb/includes/channels.php /var/www/mythweb/includes/channels.php.save

nano /var/www/mythweb/includes/channels.php

(Add this to the bottom of channels.php before last cury bracket "}"):

(then the last curly bracket will be here)

5) modify mythweb theme to add LiveTV link

cp /var/www/mythweb/themes/Default/theme.php /var/www/mythweb/themes/Default/theme.php.save

Add a link for 'Stream Live TV' to theme.php around line 164 - you'll see similar lines of code

6) running

Connect to mythweb and click on "Stream Live TV".
Click on "stream channel" for the channel you want to watch
Set the options (first time use defaults)
Use protocol http (for me anyway)
Click "Start Live Stream" then click "Play"
Point your video player to the same address as recordings.

Additional Notes

1) The channel selection page will change the channel on the tuner card.

If you are on a cable/sate box you need to comment out the #map frequency stuff and add:
FREQ=61250
(This will keep all changes to channel 3)

If you are using an IRBlaster to change channels put this line just before it calls vlc:
change_channel ${CHANNEL}

Also consider that MythTv really doens't know that this is happening, its kind of 'under the covers'. So if you grab a tuner in the middle of a mythtv recording, its channel will change. Mythtv will blindly continue record from the tuner only now it will be recording what you are watching live. Likewise, if you are watching Live and a scheduled recording is trigged, the live stream will change when MythTV changes tuner channel.

2) if you want to stream fron the Internet (i.e. watch Live from Office) you will need to open a port on your firewall. Step 3 above shows that port 8001 is used (you can change if you like).

Please....consider implications of this or any other security change. It's well documenated that a standard knoppmyth box has NO default security