TVheadend and Comskip Works Great on the Nvidia SHIELD

Tvheadend is a popular open source TV streaming PVR backend (TV tuner and DVR recording server) software application for Linux supporting DVB-S(2), DVB-C(2), DVB-T(2), ATSC, IPTV (UDP/HTTP), and Analog video (V4L) as input sources. Tvheadend can be used as a PVR backend of Kodi.

TVHeadend, is a server app that can run on a Nvidia SHIEld and it can read video streams from LinuxTV sources and publishes them as internet streams. It can also record streams directly from an HDHomeRun tuner and play it back and automatically skip any commercials.

If you own a HDHomeRun, TVheadend basically is a lightweight, easily-configured, general-purpose TV/video streaming server and recorder (PVR/DVR) that along with their apk works great on the Nvidia SHIELD and Kodi.

Comskip - This is is a commercial detector that will let you automatically find and skip advertisements without any user input. It is now included in the TVheadend apk. Kodi will auto-skip the commercials when the recordings are played back. Comskip files are automatically deleted once you delete a recording.

To take advantage of the Free TVheadend DVR app, this is what you need and you may even own some already.

1. Nvidia SHIELD - This is an Android TV box that has some serious fire power and is in a league all to its own when it comes to Android TV Boxes. Running DVR server software is a job for the big boys and wimpy Fire Sticks or Fire TVs need not apply. Nvidia designed the SHIELD at the time to be far beyond any other media streamer. This was several years ago and even to this day, no other Android box comes close to both the performance and user experience you get from a Nvidia SHIELD.

2. HDHomeRun - This is the Network tuner that attaches to your TV antenna and also to your Router with an Ethernet wire. Yes, they make other tuners that use WiFi and can transcode a 1080p raw mpeg2 stream into a H.265 more WiFi friendly compressed format. Being able to play the raw mpeg2 video recording is identical to your source. This give you a much crisper and clearer stream than a compressed H.265 stream. This is why if possible always use Ethernet to your HDHomeRun.

If you don't yet own one you can get their new latest and greatest Dual Tuner Connect model, or their Four Tuner Quatro Connect model. These new HDHomeRun models just came out earlier this year and they have more sensitive tuners then their last generation and now have one with Four Tuners which only needs one antenna input.

They did remove the LED lights, so both the Quatro and Dual HdHomeRun models no longer have status lights. Probably needed to cut some costs to make up for the more expensive sensitive tuners.

Other supported tuners Hauppauge with WinTV-dualHD, Tablo Rebranded WinTVdualHD and Xbox One tuner.

3. USB FLASH Or Eternal USB Drive Storage - To record your shows, you will need either a USB Flash Drive or external USB Hard Drive for your Nvidia SHIELD unless you sprung for the super spendy SHIELD Pro model which comes with its own 500GB Internal Hard Drive.

The Nvidia SHIELD is a little fussy about which Flash storage it likes and NVIDIA recommends getting either the SanDisk Extreme CZ80 USB 3.0 Flash Drive 32GB to 128GB or the SanDisk Ultra CZ48 USB 3.0 Flash Drive. They come in sizes from 64GB to 256GB.

If your SHIELD is the first generation model, it also supports microSD with a Class 10 rating.

If you set up your external storage device as internal storage, it will replace your existing internal onboard storage. You can only have one internal storage drive so make sure your USB Flash card or external drive is larger than your existing internal storage.

Once you set your USB storage to be used for internal storage, it will encrypt your storage device and you can no longer swap it back and forth between your computer without reformatting it. Apps on the SHIELD can only be installed on internal storage.

Download TVheadend.1.25.18.apk

For TVheadend support and instructions visit: https://tvheadend.org/

You will need to set a few things up to get Comskip to work.

The best place to get instructions is from their site at http://www.kaashoek.com/comskip/ or Read the Comskip Manual

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