Radio Groups not created in Kodi

[Dumyat]

Hi,
I set-up some radio channels to test which are appearing fine on the NextPVR web app with the correct Groups, but when I start Kodi the only radio group I'm getting is for 'All Channels'. 

I should have 2 groups called:-
1) Absolute
2 Easy Listening

For the channels in the 'Absolute' Group, I created a m3u file and used the tag group-title="Absolute". The 'Easy Listening' Group contains 2 radio channels configured using a Hauppauge USB tuner. I manually created this group and added the 2 radio radio. All the channels are using Schedules Direct Guide data.

Not sure what's causing the issue, as all the channels are appearing in Kodi with the correct guide data, just not the groups. Is this likely to be down to NextPVR not passing the radio group info onto Kodi, or Kodi not picking this info up?

Also, as a side question, are radio channels quite slow to open? I've tried 3 different clients with Kodi and all seem to be quite slow at opening Radio channels. The 2 channels I configured from the Hauppauge USB tuner are the slowest to open using both the NextPVR Web App and Kodi which was a bit of a surprise I must admit. The other 3 channels on the m3u file are channel strms extracted from my Enigma2 STB.

Any feedback or pointers to help problem solve the issue would be highly appreciated.
Cheers

[mvallevand]

NextPVR doesn't have the concept of Radio Groups, they are just groups. I am able to filter out the stations in Kodi but decided against building the internal tables needed to filter the groups too so all groups go to TV.

Radio stations can be slow to open mainly because the audio streams don't necessarily start when the TS starts but also it takes longer to fill the Kodi buffer when no video is included.

Personally I use the live streams options which means Kodi uses an internet URL not the tuner url and it is much faster. Most of the UK streams are availabe as m3u8 streams some of very high quality. If the radio stream contains shoutcast data I also see the on air info. Recordings in NextPVR would still be possible.

Martin

[Dumyat]

Great stuff!
Thanks very much for the feedback. I don't generally listen to a very large amount of different radio channels, so if they are all grouped together it's not really a problem. I thought perhaps my config might have been causing the issue in some way.
My Enigma2 device receives the channels fine and has them listed on the channel list file, along with the guide ID, but then has no actual guide data listed for the radio channels.....Most annoying!
Have been using the radio.de addon in Kodi, which I quite like, as the artist name, track and artist thumbnail art is displayed for most of the channels I've tried.
Thanks again

[mvallevand]

If the live stream URL feature is used you will get shoutcast data and the art if it is one of the stations supported in core. If not the feature was desinged to play from plugin:// style URLs too. It is handy navigating radio by channel number.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Sub has kindly exposed the API feature in XML (it was in JSON) that I needed to create separate radio and TV groups.

Martin

[Dumyat]

Great stuff.
I had created some radio groups initially after the my last post using the Kodi Group Manager, which also seemed to work as well.
Cheers