Wintermute_BBS
@Wintermute_BBS@oldbytes.space
half grown-up Commodore 64 kid, RC2014 enthusiast, Linux platform engineer and hobbyist retro coder (C / FORTH / BASIC and a little bit of ASM). FORTH aficionado and Z80 convert. Remember: 64K should be enough for everyone! SysOp of telnet BBSes "Wintermute BBS" (wintermutebbs.ddns.net:23) and the infamous "RC-BOX BBS" (rc2014.ddns.net:2014), the world's first and (currently) only #rc2014 based telnet BBS !! Website: https://ufud.org
oldbytes.space
Yet another toot regarding #FreeBSD and #tvheadend with a #Hauppauge WinTV duoHD - while it is possible for me to pass the #v4l2 driver via #webcamd to the userspace and actually get DVB devices like /dev/dvb/adapter01 etc. the programs I want to use with these devices just won't work properly.
Unfortunately, tvheadend or the commad line tool w_scan simply can't find any station over DVB-C. Using the same hardware that works without problems on Linux. Meh.
So one solution I found is to set up a #bhyve instance on your FreeBSD desktop system runing Linux/tvheadend and then pass the #usb #dvb device through to that bhyve instance.
Sounds a bit like cheating - after all I want to replace my infrastructure Linux server (serving CUPS, dnsmaq and tvheadend) with FreeBSD .
But if that's the only way for FreeBSD to handle DVB-T2 devices, then it shall be that way ... (I only hope that it will work) 🤷
