DvbLink TV Server, Version 6, on Synology NAS

Some tips and tricks I found while setting up the DvbLink TV Server on my Synology NAS.

If you are using the Synology VideStation application, you'll need to turn off its Digital TeleVision (or DTV) feature in order to install DvbLink TV Server. This is to free up the network connections to any network TV tuners, such as the HDHomeRun tuners I recently installed and also any USB TV tuners you might connect to your NAS. Then you can install DvbLink server and it'll take control of any TV tuners it can find.

Turning off the VIdeoStation DTV features disables it's TV Recording playback function, so if you want to access your TV recordings in VideoStation, you need to add a new library pointing to the DvbLink recorded TV folder. You don't want to add any "video information" to the recordings via the VideoStation indexing feature. It'll generally make a royal mess of things randomly grabbing words out of program file names and using that to match with program database entries that are likely totally incorrect.

Again, if you are using the Synology media server apps, those are served off the NAS IP address via DLNA. The DvbLink TV server also supports DLNA and it's off the same IP address, but a different port. Depending on your DLNA player, you may need to switch back and forth between those two DLNA servers to change content. In a player like Kodi, you can have multiple server connections simultaneously, so no need to switch between them.

DvbLink:
http://dvblogic.com/en/dvblink/

Synology VideoStation:
https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/6.0/multimedia

To be continued, in the next video transcoding on NAS servers:
https://youtu.be/v6beKfeVH04

UPDATE: The last few years I've switched over to the TV Mosaic server from DvbLogic. They closed up operations in 2020:
https://dvblogic.com/
But you can still download and install the Community Edition of the Synology server and it's been working great. EPG data via PercData is fully integrated plus you can install various streaming IPTV services. I've tried that a bit, it does work, but the EPG support is hit or miss. One of the best features is that the server now includes commercial filtering on recordings.

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