I have a NAS on which I have installed Jellyfin.\u00a0 I chose Jellyfin from the usuals, because I didn’t want to pay for another streaming service (if you have to pay to watch tv, it might as well be a streaming service).<\/p>\n
Anyway, jellyfin automatically detected the HDHomerun (2 tuner, old) connected to my network.\u00a0 And while I could watch live tv via the Silicondust\/HDHomerun app, the ability to see all of the tv programming on Jellyfin was just too enticing to pass by.<\/p>\n
Turned on logging in scheduled tasks.\u00a0 Errors, added group docker with admin privileges.<\/p>\n
synology task scheduler run result interrupted – https:\/\/community.synology.com\/enu\/forum\/1\/post\/150119?reply=467768<\/p>\n
sudo chmod 666 \/var\/run\/docker.sock – https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/48957195\/how-to-fix-docker-got-permission-denied-issue\u00a0 chmod 666.<\/p>\n
changed save directory web folder – issues with writing outside the web folder<\/p>\n
then setup user permissions in nas – control panel > shared folder > web > edit > permissions > system internal user (drop down) > jellyfin initial user (during setup) > give it read access<\/p>\n
cron job to get tv guide xml data:<\/p>\n
<?php\r\n\r\nfunction SaveFile($file, $fileDestination) {\r\n if (isset($file) && isset($fileDestination)) {\r\n try {\r\n $fHandle = fopen($fileDestination, \"w\");\r\n if(!$fHandle){\r\n throw new Exception(\"Could not open file destination ({$fileDestination}).\");\r\n }\r\n \r\n if (fwrite($fHandle, $file) === FALSE) {\r\n throw new Exception(\"Cannot write to file ({$fileDestination}).\");\r\n }\r\n\r\n fclose($fHandle);\r\n }\r\n catch (Exception $e) {\r\n throw $e;\r\n }\r\n\r\n return TRUE;\r\n }\r\n\r\n return false;\r\n} \/\/ end SaveFile\r\n\r\n\/\/ ip address and hd homerun location on your lan\r\n$hdHomerunUrl = 'http:\/\/xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\/discover.json';\r\n\r\n$ch = curl_init();\r\n \r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $hdHomerunUrl);\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:52.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/52.0');\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, \"\");\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);\r\ncurl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);\r\n\r\n$hdHomeRunData = curl_exec($ch); \/\/ curl hdhomerun for data\r\n\r\ncurl_close($ch);\r\n\r\n$dataDecoded = json_decode($hdHomeRunData, true); \/\/ decode data\r\n\r\n$authCode = $dataDecoded['DeviceAuth']; \/\/ get device authorization\r\n\r\nif(isset($authCode) && $authCode != ''){\r\n \/\/ using device auth, query api.hdhomerun for data\r\n $xmlTvUrl = 'https:\/\/api.hdhomerun.com\/api\/xmltv?DeviceAuth=' . $authCode;\r\n\r\n try {\r\n $ch=curl_init();\r\n\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $xmlTvUrl);\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'GET');\r\n \/\/ 'Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:52.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/52.0'\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla\/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:52.0) Gecko\/20100101 Firefox\/52.0');\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_ENCODING, \"\");\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 0);\r\n curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 120);\r\n\r\n $xmlData = curl_exec($ch);\r\n\r\n curl_close($ch);\r\n }\r\n catch (Exception $ex) {\r\n error_log($ex, 0);\r\n die();\r\n exit();\r\n }\r\n\r\n $fileLoc = '\/STORAGE_LOCATION_ON_YOUR_NAS\/';\r\n \r\n \/\/ tried saving to database\r\n \/\/ mariadb error Got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes tried updating - forget it for now\r\n \r\n if (isset($xmlData) && $xmlData) {\r\n if(file_exists($fileLoc . 'xmltv.xml')){ \/\/ if file exists\r\n try{\r\n \/\/ rename appending date\r\n $renamed = rename($fileLoc . 'xmltv.xml', $fileLoc . 'xmltv-' . date('Y-m-d') . '.xml');\r\n if(!$renamed){\r\n throw new Exception('Something went wrong. Either file was not found or could not rename');\r\n }\r\n } \r\n catch (Exception $e) {\r\n error_log($e, 0);\r\n die($e);\r\n exit();\r\n }\r\n } \r\n\r\n try{\r\n SaveFile($xmlData, $fileLoc . 'xmltv.xml'); \/\/ try saving new curled file\r\n }\r\n catch (Exception $e){\r\n error_log($e, 0);\r\n die($e);\r\n exit();\r\n }\r\n }\r\n}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\nSet up above script as a cron job.\u00a0 Point jellyfin to storage location for tv guide xml data and you’re done!\u00a0 Sorry for the scarce details, as I did this quite a while ago.\u00a0 Personally, I have gone back to using hdhomerun’s recording control, but it’s still nice to see the tv guide data in Jellyfin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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