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tvheadend(1) General Commands Manual tvheadend(1) NAME Tvheadend - Advanced TV streaming server/relay and personal video recorder. SYNOPSIS tvheadend [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION Tvheadend is a streaming server/relay supporting a variety of sources and multiple output formats. It can be used as a standalone PVR or in conjunction with media players such as Movian (Showtime), Kodi (XBMC), VLC and others. OPTIONS All arguments are optional. Generic Options -v, --version Show version information. -h, --help Show built-in help information (may be more up to date). Service Configuration Options -c, --config Specify an alternative config path; the default is ${HOME}/.hts/tvheadend -B, --nobackup Don't backup configuration tree at upgrade. -f Fork and become a background process (daemon). Default is no. -u username, --user username Run as user username. Only applicable if daemonizing. Default is to use the uid of 1 ('daemon' on most systems). -g groupname, --group groupname Run as group groupname. Only applicable if daemonizing. Default is to use the 'video' group. If the 'video' group does not ex- ist, gid 1 ('daemon') will be used. -p pidpath, --pid pidpath Specify alternative PID path file (default /var/run/tvhead- end.pid). -C, --firstrun If no user account exist then create one with no username and no password. Use with care as it will allow world-wide administra- tive access to your Tvheadend installation until you edit the access-control from within the Tvheadend UI. -U, --dbus Enable DBus. -e, --dbus_session DBus - use the session message bus instead of the system one. -a, --adapters Only use specified DVB adapters (comma separated, -1 == none). --satip_rtsp SAT>IP RTSP port number for server (default: -1 = disable, 0 = webconfig, standard port is 554). --nosatip Disable SAT>IP client. --satip_xml URL with the SAT>IP server XML location. Server Connectivity -6, --ipv6 Listen on IPv6. -b address, --bindaddr address Specify an interface IP address on which incoming HTTP and HTSP connections will be accepted. By default, connections are ac- cepted on all interfaces. --http_port Specify alternative http port (default 9881). --http_root Specify alternative http webroot. --htsp_port Specify alternative HTSP port (default 9882). --htsp_port2 Specify extra HTSP port. --useragent Specify User-Agent header for the http client. --xspf Use XSPF playlist instead of M3U. Debug options -d, --stderr Enable debug on stderr. -n, --nostderr Disable debug on stderr. -s, --syslog Enable debug to syslog. -S, --nosyslog Disable syslog (all messages). -l, --logfile Enable debug to file. --debug Enable debug subsystems. --trace Enable trace subsystems. --fileline Add file and line numbers to debug. --threadid Add the thread ID to debug. --libav More verbose libav log. --uidebug Enable web UI debug (non-minified JavaScript). -A, --abort Immediately abort on startup (for debug). -D, --dump Enable coredumps for daemon. --noacl Do not perform any access control checking. --nobat Disable DVB bouquets. -j, --join Subscribe to a service permanently. Testing Options --tsfile_tuners Specify number of tsfile tuners. --tsfile Use ts file (mux file) as input. LOGGING All activity inside tvheadend is logged to syslog using log fa- cility LOG_DAEMON. SETUP Access to video adapters In order for Tvheadend to control the video adapters on the system it must be granted access to those devices. Most systems have a 'video' group with write access to the video adapter devices. When Tvheadend is started as a daemon it will automatically change its primary group to 'video' in order to access these groups. If your system is configured in a different way you can either change the group membership of the video adapters (/dev/dvb, etc) or reconfig- ure the Tvheadend startup parameters. This is most likely the behavior if you have installed Tvheadend from a distribution package. If Tvheadend is started without the '-f' argument it will neither dae- monize nor change its primary userid/groupid. Instead, it will run with the permissions granted to the user executing the binary. If that's the case then you must make sure that the current user is granted access to the video devices. Configuration All configuration in Tvheadend is maintained via its embedded web server running on port 9981. Just point your browser to: http://hostname:9981/ By default everyone (also from remote hosts) is allowed full access to all features / settings in the web user interface. If this is the first time you're setting up Tvheadend, you are strongly encouraged to enter the web user interface, selected the 'Configuration' + 'Access Control' tab and make reasonable changes. Further help and documentation can be obtained inside the web interface. Settings Settings are stored in the current user's home directory. Thus, if Tv- headend is run as a system daemon a dedicated user needs to be created and Tvheadend should be launched with the '-u' argument. Also notice that XMLTV will read/ store cache and configuration from the same user home directory. If daemonizing, tvheadend will writes its pid in /var/run/tvheadend.pid AUTHOR Tvheadend and this man page is maintained by the Tvheadend team. Please see the application for credits. You may also visit #hts at irc.freenode.net COPYRIGHT 2006 - 2016 Andreas man, et al. Licensed under GPLv3 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it subject to the provisions of the license above. There is NO WARRANTY, to the ex- tent permitted by law. SEE ALSO https://tvheadend.org tvheadend(1)
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