magabriel / tvheadendv

Mobile web app for watching Tvheadend channels over wifi

Tvheadend viewer (Tvheadendv)

Copyright (c) 2012 Miguel Angel Gabriel ([email protected]). All rights reserved.

Released under the GNU GPL V3.

Synopsis

This is a mobile web viewer for the excelent HTS Tvheadend {https://www.lonelycoder.com/tvheadend/} streaming server.

Tvheadend does not provide an adequate mobile version and there are no plans to implement one. There are both an official iPhone client and at least another unofficial one for Android {http://john-tornblom.github.com/TVHGuide}.

I started this project as an excuse to teach myself jQuery Mobile. I would be happy if anyone finds it useful.

Screenshots are available in /doc/screenshots folder.

Features

• Easy integration into TvHeadend installation.
• Show channel tags, channels and EPG.
• When in the channel or EPG list, tapping on an item will open the default video player to play the live stream directly from your server (I personally recommend the excellent MX Videoplayer in the Android platform).

Requirements

• A working installation of TvHeadend.
• A mobile platform with a modern browser (tested under Androd 2.3 / 4.0 and stock browser / Dolphin browser).
• An external media player that can play streaming urls.

Installation

• Instructions are for Ubuntu. Not tested in other distributions. This explanation assumes that TvHeadend is installed in /usr/share/tvheadend, so adjust it according to your installation.

• Download everything under the repository's "public_html" folder and copy somewhere in the same machine that runs Tvheadend (say, "/home/me/apps/tvheadendv"). Do not forget to chmod 664 everything in there.

• From here you have two options (choose either one):

  1.- Make a symbolic link pointing TvHeadend to the directory containing the application:

        sudo ln -s /home/me/apps/tvheadendv/public_html /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/tvhv
  

  2.- Copy the contents of the public_html folder just downloaded to the right directory inside TvHeadend installation:

        sudo cp -r /home/me/apps/tvheadendv/public_html /usr/share/tvheadend/src/webui/static/tvhv
  

  Either way, after that you will be able to access the application opening {http://yourserver:9981/static/tvhv/index.html} from your mobile browser.

tvheadendv's Issues

Configure user/password

Currently TVHeadendv works only if TVheadend is configured to be accesed without user/password.

User/password configuration parameters should be added and used when trying to connect to the backend.

Integrate into TVH upstream

Hey Miguel,

Wasn't sure how best to contact you, wish github would add a simple PM system!

Anyway do you have any screenshots for your interface? And are you interested in integrating this upstream?

Adam

Configure port to connect to JSONP proxy

Currently TVheadend only works if the JSONP proxy its configured to be accesed throughout port 80 in Apache.

A configuration parameter should be added to handle other non-standard ports.

NOTE: The JSONP proxy will be removed in the future when (if) TVheadend implements a native JSONP interface.