Thu Oct 11, 2012 5:34 pm
Disable Feed Expiry?
Here's a curiousity for you. I have the following setup:
* Dual LNB feeding into DVB-S2 card on a Linux box running TVHeadEnd and Serviio
* Pair of Sony 2011 Bravias (Freeview - DVB-T)
We have some Kids channels that are not available on Freeview which I wanted to make available via Serviio's online content ; disabling transcoding and configuring TVHeadend to serve content as passthru (mpegts) ensures the Bravia's can play this content ...
I am using the LiveFeeds plugin to service my contents as rss feeds : e.g
The only problem is, when it comes to serviio checking the content ; it is polling the next stream before TVHeadend can close down the transponder ; which either causes the stream to be marked not available on Serviio, or causes a crash in TVHeadend (a different matter).
To resolve this, I temporary added a virtual host on my local Apache configuration to listen on the same port as TVHeadend's HTTP server listens on and added a rewrite rule that would respond with a valid transport stream regardless of the URI:
This would fool Serviio into thinking "Aye - that's a valid stream ; no problem" and thus make it available. Once the polling is complete, I can disable the Apache service and we are able to select the stream with no issue in order to watch the appropriate channel.
The downside of this is that this polling will happen at the very least every 999 hours (the default is 24 hours) for feed expiry.
What I request is one of:
a) The ability to tell Serviio to not bother checking this online content (I fear this may not be possible)
b) The ability to tell Serviio to no re-poll specific content (i.e. Disable Feed Expiry) - I guess this is the simplest?
c) The ability to pass Serviio a dummy URL to poll in place of the actual content stream
(i.e. while my stream may be http://localhost:9981/stream/channelid/37, I would tell Serviio to poll http://10.100.69.3/test.ts instead when checking the feed
What do you think?
I suppose this may be useful for online streams where the link disappears from time to time?
* Dual LNB feeding into DVB-S2 card on a Linux box running TVHeadEnd and Serviio
* Pair of Sony 2011 Bravias (Freeview - DVB-T)
We have some Kids channels that are not available on Freeview which I wanted to make available via Serviio's online content ; disabling transcoding and configuring TVHeadend to serve content as passthru (mpegts) ensures the Bravia's can play this content ...
I am using the LiveFeeds plugin to service my contents as rss feeds : e.g
The only problem is, when it comes to serviio checking the content ; it is polling the next stream before TVHeadend can close down the transponder ; which either causes the stream to be marked not available on Serviio, or causes a crash in TVHeadend (a different matter).
To resolve this, I temporary added a virtual host on my local Apache configuration to listen on the same port as TVHeadend's HTTP server listens on and added a rewrite rule that would respond with a valid transport stream regardless of the URI:
This would fool Serviio into thinking "Aye - that's a valid stream ; no problem" and thus make it available. Once the polling is complete, I can disable the Apache service and we are able to select the stream with no issue in order to watch the appropriate channel.
The downside of this is that this polling will happen at the very least every 999 hours (the default is 24 hours) for feed expiry.
What I request is one of:
a) The ability to tell Serviio to not bother checking this online content (I fear this may not be possible)
b) The ability to tell Serviio to no re-poll specific content (i.e. Disable Feed Expiry) - I guess this is the simplest?
c) The ability to pass Serviio a dummy URL to poll in place of the actual content stream
(i.e. while my stream may be http://localhost:9981/stream/channelid/37, I would tell Serviio to poll http://10.100.69.3/test.ts instead when checking the feed
What do you think?
I suppose this may be useful for online streams where the link disappears from time to time?
