/etc/astra/astra.conf /etc/astra/conf.d/adapters/ /etc/astra/conf.d/streams/ /etc/astra/conf.d/filters/ Example master config:
mkdir /dev/shm/astra_logs astra --log-dir /dev/shm/astra_logs --log-level 3 Use logrotate to flush RAM to disk hourly. Never use kill -9 . Use the management API: astra cesbo install better
sudo setcap 'cap_net_admin,cap_net_raw,cap_sys_nice+ep' /usr/bin/astra Run the service as the astra user. Edit /etc/systemd/system/astra.service : /etc/astra/astra
# Find your device (e.g., /dev/dvb/adapter0) # Set affinity for the Astra process running this adapter taskset -cp 2 $(pidof astra) For a 4-adapter system, assign core 0 to adapter 0, core 1 to adapter 1, etc. If you use --transcode , the default software encoder is slow. Force vaapi (Intel) or nvdec (NVIDIA): Edit /etc/systemd/system/astra
*/1 * * * * curl -s http://localhost:8000/stat/stream | jq '.[].errors' If errors > 10, trigger sudo systemctl restart astra . Don't log to syslog. Write to a RAM disk to save SSD wear: