synology installation

[campbejo]

Any idea how I can install on my synology 218+? I have updated to dsm 7.0 beta which creates a problem. I do not know how to use docker although I have it installed.

thanks,

Joe

[sub]

I haven't used the dsm 7.0 beta, but assuming it's largely like previous versions, you run the Docker application, click on the Registry tab, search for NextPVR. Double click the nextpvr_amd64 one, select 'stable' and hit ok to install.

In the Synology Docker app you can sepecify where the various directories should be stored on your NAS. You want to configure the following:

/config
/recordings
/buffer

You'll also want to map TCP port 8866 to port 8866 in the container.

[johnm0101]

I've managed to get nextPVR running on my DS718+ 
only trouble is it does not see the TV (Hauppage) USB DVB-t sticks in the usb port of teh DS719+
TVHeadend sees and identifies them as Sony products - I've stopped TVheadend in case there's some conflict and restarted docker
Is there some trick to get nextPVR to look for USB devices or does it only work with IP servers?

[sub]

By default, application running within a docker container will not be able to see USB devices. To make them available in the container, your container needs to have been created with the "--device /dev/dvb:/dev/dvb" paramater. I'm not sure you can specify this with the Synology Docker UI. You can however SSH into the Synology, and run the command line to create the container. After this it'll show up in the Synology Docker UI, where you can start/stop etc.

To install NextPVR on my Synology NAS, I SSH'd into it and ran:

Code:

sudo docker pull nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64:stable
sudo docker run -d --name nextpvr --volume /volume1/nextpvr/config:/config --volume /volume1/nextpvr/recordings:/recordings --volume /volume1/nextpvr/recordings:/buffer --publish 8866:8866 --device /dev/dri:/dev/dri --device /dev/dvb:/dev/dvb nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64:stable

If you've already got it installed, and want to upgrade to the newest version, you can just delete the existing NextPVR container from the Docker UI, then run that command above. Deleting the NextPVR container doesn't get rid of your configuration etc, since that lives outside the container.

[johnm0101]

Oh Sub   - serious worship!!!
It worked 
I am getting familiar with all that sudo stuff from working with raspi pi's

I eventually got the right folder and hey presto  (Volume1\nextpvr   for anyone else) 

Just a quick follow on - not sure its a nextpvr config but when I try scanning channels on one of the usb tv sticks - all I get are german channels 
On the other I get UK but only UK Mainland transmitters  - in the win10 installation there is an option to select "UK all"  
( I live in Guernsey and we have one transmitter and a repeater. Actually its so far behind the times I'm surprised it is not semaphore) 

Any ideas on the above      fyi its to do with my repeated prbs with win 10 ( I posted elsewhere) everytime Win 10 upgrades there are problems 
So I was looking at whether a linux set up might be more stable whne I came across the Synology set up 

Thanks a million for yor help 
I am already in awe of nextpvr 

all the best 
John