Movistar

Regular Movistar TV channels travel over Multicast/UDP, but everything you ask for yourself (a movie from the video store, rewinding what is currently on, a cloud recording) travels over Unicast, and that is where a home-made Linux router chokes. In this post I explain how that traffic works today, measured with the TV switched on, and what you need to put on the router to make it play. There is a surprise: not everything uses RTSP anymore. More than a decade ago I wrote Video on Demand for Movistar, the first time I wrestled with this on my Linux router. Recently I felt like checking whether igmpproxy and the kernel RTSP helper were still needed, I took another look at the whole thing, and this post is the result. Yes, I was bored and decided to do an academic study. …

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 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. …

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). …

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. …

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. …