Feel free to add comments and suggestions and re-read the sticky post for questions, I will try and keep it current until some sort of wiki develops
Thanks to everyone involved in this, analog from MythBox for the original code, Ton for the first GBPVR code this is based on, UJB for the great help adding extra things to NEWA web service to make this work so well, and of course, sub for such a wonderful PVR, a great frontend and backend that keeps getting better.
I'm looking to move to NextPVR as the backend for my XBMC installation. Is there a way to create a recurring recording without first finding the show in the EPG? I'd like to pre-create my recurring recordings before moving my tuners from FTR to minimize the risk of missing recordings and making the wife and kids angry.
This forum is for the support of knewc (Kodi New Client) If you see one of the following screens, which I call the dashboard you are using knewc and to avoid confusion I hope that everyone refers to it by name and not the the Kodi NextPVR plugin or addon which should refer to sub's excellent Kodi PVR addon called pvr-nextpvr
The UI client offers pretty much the complete NextPVR look and feel in Kodi using Kodi for playback in both version 4 and 5 of NextPVR
I thought I'd post my a video of my experience with the PivosXS in linux and Android, I'd expect the RPi would be about the same. Here is an out-of-date video showing an older UI of my plugin running live tv from NextPVR (720p h264 passthrough AC3 5:1) ATSC is a lightly faster to start, this is from an HDPVR
I will send some improved video when I have my HDPVR2 running.
I can get it in town for $100-115 CDN and that is a complete unit with remote case etc. On the XBMC forum it is pretty much regarded as the best cheap player right now, but I am sure better ones are coming.
just a quick post about my experience with the pi so far.
setup
NPVR 2.5.9
RaspberryPI model B revision 1
RaspBMC RC5 downgraded xbmc to 0929 build
npvr addon build: sub3-xbmc-pvr-addons-573ca4d
DVB-S/S2 with FTA and encrypted channels using oscam
MPEG2 + VC1 license for RPI
what works well
SD channels, perfect, plays in sync, runs for hours without any issues
super easier to configure, just specify ip address
what doesnt work well
HD channels, stutters for a few seconds then just freezes and needs to be stopped. UPDATE: appears to be issue with raspbmc/rpi cant handle the 1080 ts files, cannot playback ones recorded by 4tr either
tuning time is pretty slow, takes a while to start a tv channel (maybe 5-10 seconds), not sure if this is NPVR specific or RPI specific
currently no signal quality in the XBMC stream info (pushing "o" button during live tv)
channel logos?
timeline in xbmc looks odd, doesnt have the grid lines/background colour on most entries (probably xbmc issue not npvr addon issue)
Add timer text is missing when you select a program in the timeline (probably xbmc issue not npvr addon issue)
when playing back a recording a error message saying "This channel cannot be played. Check the log for details." is shown, once you click "OK" recording plays normally.
Aspect ratio for SD channels is wrong, should be 16:9 but appears to be 4:3 and have to switch zoom mode to "Stretch 16:9"
i had a few setup issues, but that was just my specific setup and mostly around encrypted channels, but once i got past those NPVR was fairly easy to setup (most people wont be decrypting channels).
couple of feature requests
add a concept of "user" to nextpvr, in my house there is 4 adults and 1 kid, ideally i would like to have 4 users each with their own recordings/schedules. this is a complex issue, esp around conflicts and recording the same show, but will likely become more and more requested. i want my son to have a pi in his bedroom with his recordings (no access to game of thrones/dexter etc, just thomas etc). dont expect this anytime soon, but would love to see it one day
merge SD and HD channels into 1 channel. configure the client to "support HD channels", and if that is set to true, send the HD feed, if its set to false, send the SD feed. probably need an option for scheduled recordings too, "Use SD Source?" (default false, can always transcode recordings). this will be helpful for low powered clients that cant support HD streams, or if running over wifi and network cant handle HD
all and all im impressed, sub once again has done a great job in not a lot of time, xbmc addon is pretty solid and NPVR is pretty easy to setup (easier than mepo, 4tr and tvheadend IMO, all of which ive recently used)
usually ive just used packages.pulse-eight.net and run their install-xbmc script to keep my xbmcbuntu machines running with pvr. but they are still on eden (v11) so need to update to frodo (v12) of xbmc.
but whenever i enable PVR with NPVR addon enabled, xbmc crashes are restarts.
im trying to get two old HTPCs up and running with NPVR as backend (they were using 4tr before, but attempting to switch back to npvr, working great on my pis), so want a lightweight OS like xbmcbuntu or openelec, but cant find a build that works with these.
anyone know of a build of xbmcbuntu or openelec that will help me out?
Thats the best title I could come up with for what I am wishing for.
Most people want to fully switch, well I don't because of the investment.
This might be more geared toward a plugin for each Piece of software
I have a STV DVR with 4 extenders (one is at a friends house and he uses the placeshifting feature of one extender) that works pretty good.
I have NPVR installed on the same box and I am working out the Kinks here and there.
I have 2 boxes I am going to
STV is using a few tuners and NPVR is as well.
What I am looking for is something that would allow me to use STV to browse the NPVR Live TV and stream/watch it live, as well as have NPVR do the same.
Both Apps offer web streaming. Both use local file directorys as well as network shares, and both have databases. There is and ODBC Driver for the SQLITE V3 DB that could be used.
