TrueNAS Scale - NextPVR

[mvallevand]

@Tugdwal you should always include all your zipped logs.

Martin

[Tugdwal]

Sorry, forgot about that. Here are the logs.

[mvallevand]

It does look like you need to look at the backend dmesg to see if the drivers are installed fully. There usually are messages about the tuner frontend and firmware. If it is USB you can unplug and plug it in again to see messages at the end. You might need to use jounalctl

Martin

[sub]

Yeah that’s my guess too. It’s likely the drivers aren’t functional because firmware files are needed.

[Tugdwal]

I'm back ! And I managed to make it work in a VM at least !!! You were right, firmware were missing. I tried to manually install one, but it did not work, but using a package it did.

There might be things to improve, but here is what I did :

• Create a VM in TrueNAS
  
• Add tuner(s) to VM (PCI Passthrough device)
  
• Install Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS
  
• Install NextPVR
  
• Add Hauppauge package repository
  
• Install Hauppauge firmware package
  
• Enable dma_reset_workaround=2
  
• Reboot (and profit)
  

Download script

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# download.sh

# https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390
curl -O -C - https://nextpvr.com/nextpvr-helper.deb

# https://bytemeta.vip/repo/b-rad-NDi/Ubuntu-media-tree-kernel-builder/issues/140
echo "options cx23885 dma_reset_workaround=2" > cx23885.conf

Install script

Code:

#!/bin/bash
# install.sh

# https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390
apt install --install-recommends ./nextpvr-helper.deb

# https://hauppauge.com/pages/support/support_linux.html
add-apt-repository ppa:b-rad/kernel+mediatree+hauppauge
apt install linux-firmware-hauppauge

# https://bytemeta.vip/repo/b-rad-NDi/Ubuntu-media-tree-kernel-builder/issues/140
cp cx23885.conf /etc/modprobe.d

I will try with docker again later, but an Ubuntu VM is good for now.