Watch free-to-air digital terrestrial television live and schedule recordings on Ubuntu. Plug a supported AVerMedia AVerTV Volar HD USB tuner into your computer, connect an antenna to the tuner and scan for the channels available in your area.
Hardware and system requirements
Arkham TV supports only the AVerMedia A835 and A835B for DVB-T reception. Ubuntu must recognise the tuner through its DVB driver. The Snap includes playback codecs and is available for 64-bit Intel and AMD computers and ARM64.
Watch and browse
Record to your computer
Record the current broadcast or schedule one from the TV Guide. Choose or create a destination folder in Settings. Recordings are saved locally as MP4 files with 1080p video and AAC stereo audio. Open, manage and play your recordings from the app. For scheduled recordings, keep Arkham TV open and the computer awake.
English and Spanish
Switch the interface and changelog from the language menu. Channel names and programme descriptions are shown as supplied by the broadcaster.
Developed by Óscar Peña de San Antonio, 2026. An avid reader of H.P. Lovecraft, as you might imagine ;-)
Recent changes
1.8.13 - Stereo recordings and channel selection
1.8.12 · A language menu that matches the app
1.8.11 · English and Spanish, with clearer channel quality
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Snaps are applications packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build. They update automatically and roll back gracefully.
Snaps are discoverable and installable from the Snap Store, an app store with an audience of millions.
Snap can be installed from the command line on openSUSE Leap 15.x and Tumbleweed.
You need first add the snappy repository from the terminal. Choose the appropriate command depending on your installed openSUSE flavor.
Tumbleweed:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Tumbleweed snappy
Leap 15.x:
sudo zypper addrepo --refresh https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/system:/snappy/openSUSE_Leap_15.6 snappy
If needed, Swap out openSUSE_Leap_15. for, openSUSE_Leap_16.0 if you’re using a different version of openSUSE.
With the repository added, import its GPG key:
sudo zypper --gpg-auto-import-keys refresh
Finally, upgrade the package cache to include the new snappy repository:
sudo zypper dup --from snappy
Snap can now be installed with the following:
sudo zypper install snapd
You then need to either reboot, logout/login or source /etc/profile to have /snap/bin added to PATH.
Additionally, enable and start both the snapd and the snapd.apparmor services with the following commands:
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd.apparmor
To install Arkham TV, simply use the following command:
sudo snap install arkham-tv
Browse and find snaps from the convenience of your desktop using the snap store snap.
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