A network is the type of carrier for your television signals. Tvheadend supports several different types of network, notably:

DVB-C : Cable TV, delivered via a cable to your house

DVB-S : Satellite (includes S2), so any signal coming in via a dish

DVB-T : Terrestrial, so over-the-air broadcasts received through a traditional television aerial

ATSC : Over-the-air terrestrial, common in north and central America and parts of south Asia

IPTV : IP, so over the Internet

The columns have the following functions:

Network Name

The name of the network. This can be set automatically or you can give it a name that means something to you (e.g. if you have multiple OTA networks).

Network Discovery

Whether automatic discovery is enabled for this network, i.e. whether Tvheadend looks for muxes or simply stays with the list of muxes as defined initially.

Skip initial Scan

Don't scan this network for muxes at Tvheadend start.

Idle Scan Muxes

Max Input Streams

Max Bandwidth

Max timeout

Network ID

Character Set

The character encoding for this network (e.g. UTF-8).