Running tvheadend with Sundtek DVB stick in LXC container

Just a short reminder to myself, but maybe helpful to others.

1. Create a privileged lxc container based on debian-bullseye-amd64

2. Create a user for tvheadend on the host, e.g. "lxc-tvheadend"

3. Create the directory /srv/tvheadend and chown it to the created user

4. Write down the UID and GID of the created user ("id lxc-tvheadend")

5. Follow the instructions to install the Sundtek Driver on a Docker host:

   https://sundtek.de/wiki/index.php?title=Docker

6. Provide access to /srv/tvheadend (will be mapped to /srv) and the USB stick within the containers config:

   # Sundtek DVB stick
   lxc.apparmor.profile = unconfined
   lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow = c 212:* rwm
   lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow = c 250:* rwm
   lxc.cgroup2.devices.allow = c 189:* rwm
   lxc.mount.entry = /dev/dvb dev/dvb none bind,optional,create=dir
   lxc.mount.entry = /dev/bus/usb dev/bus/usb none bind,optional,create=dir
   lxc.mount.entry = /srv/tvheadend srv none bind,optional,create=dir

7. Start the container and attach to it

8. Within the container, install curl and tvheadend

9. Create a new user and group "tvheadend" with the UID/GID of the host system

10. Edit /etc/defaults/tvheadend and change the OPTIONS line to

    OPTIONS="-u tvheadend -g tvheadend -c /srv/tvheadend"

11. Install Sundtek driver within the container (not in host mode!)

12. Reboot the container

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