Movistar on Technical Notes

Home PBX

Sat, 13 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Asterisk is a free software program (under GPL license) that provides PBX (Private Branch Exchange) functionality. You can connect phones to make calls between them within your home (or office) and even access external communications, to the PSTN (like Movistar) or by connecting to a VoIP provider or ISDN links (basic or primary).

WebGrab+Plus with Tvheadend

Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

WebGrab+Plus is a multi-site EPG guide collector capable of working incrementally. It downloads the programming schedule and generates an XMLTV format file that you can use to feed your media center or Tvheadend. I first tried installing it on MacOSX and now (this article) it’s time to install it on my Linux server and of course integrate it with Tvheadend.

Media Center Pi+KODI/XBMC

Sat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Por el 2015 andaba yo buscando un Media Center casero de siguiente generación conectado a mi TV, un “pata negra” que no sea demasiado caro, que pueda conectarse por cable ethernet a un “mundo” de múltiples fuentes que incluya música, fotos, videos familiares o películas o series (tanto SD o HD) y que sea capaz de reproducir TV en tiempo real (SD o HD), que soporte bitrates altos (~40Mbps) independiente de cual sea la fuente (antena, satélite, internet).

Home Media Center

Mon, 26 Jan 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Having a DVD player is so 90’s. Nowadays it’s possible to combine everything into a single home Media Center with one remote to watch streaming internet channels, DTT or Satellite channels, Movistar TV, movies from your DVDs or series, home videos, listen to your music, or browse your photo collection.

Ethernet Bridge

Sun, 19 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Proof of concept to extend my home network to a remote site through the internet, from where I could consume Movistar’s IPTV services. I used a pair of Raspberry Pi 2s, connected to each other by a pair of IPSec tunnels.

This post is related to Linux Router for Movistar and video on demand with Fullcone NAT on Linux.

Video on Demand for Movistar

Sat, 18 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The IPTV video streams used by Movistar come in two types: regular channels (Multicast/UDP) and video on demand (Unicast/UDP). In this post I describe what needs to be done on the Linux router for Movistar to make “Video on Demand” work. They use the RTSP protocol which requires our router to support Full Cone NAT.

The set-top boxes request videos via RTSP from their control server, but the video is sent from a different server with an unknown IP, so if we do nothing the video traffic will be dropped. Let’s see how to solve this.

Linux Router for Movistar

Sun, 05 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This post describes what’s behind (at a technical level) the IP service offered by Movistar Fusion FTTH (Fiber) and how to replace the router they install with a GNU/Linux-based machine that will act as a Router (along with an Ethernet Switch) to provide the same Data, Television (IPTV), and Voice (VoIP) services.

After reading this post, I recommend continuing with video on demand for Movistar and the lab to extend your local network to a remote site with an Ethernet Bridge.