Time shift possible is X-NEWA?

[arkennedy75]

I've replaced my old PCH A-100 with a Raspberry Pi + XBMC + X-NEWA. I've never been able to get "time shifting" (ie catching up to live TV) a recording to work correctly. For instance, if a show starts at 8:00 and I start watching at 8:15, the file doesn't continue to add time to the recording after I've started watching.

Is time shifting possible similar to the old PCH where I could "catch up to live TV"? Thanks.

[mvallevand]

If you share the recording directory you can do it. You might need advancedsettings.xml on the RPI to map the drive if you don't use \\ip\name notation.

Martin

[NYPlayer]

Is there a keyboard shortcut to record currently watching TV show when timeshifting. I can do it with EventGhost using the xbmc plugin ... but I cannot figure out what equivalent keyboard shortcut is.

[mvallevand]

Is there a keyboard shortcut to record currently watching TV show when timeshifting. I can do it with EventGhost using the xbmc plugin ... but I cannot figure out what equivalent keyboard shortcut is.

In web client mode it is Ctrl-K to record live tv but only from the current point forward. Hopefully one day sub will enable EPG mode for web client like he did for NextPVR

BTW I was confused at first because I think of timeshifting like arkennedy75 does ie watch a recording in-progress and start late to skip commercial. Since XBMC came on it's used so many ways.

Martin

[jalin2]

If you share the recording directory you can do it. You might need advancedsettings.xml on the RPI to map the drive if you don't use \\ip\name notation.

Martin

I have a similar setup (Openelec Rpi + X-Newa) and it's working very well. I'm now trying to get time-shifting to work but not quite there yet. When I start to play a TV channel I see some pre-buffering so I think VLC is loading correctly now (I didn't see pre-buffering screen before).

Whenever I pause or try to jump to a time, it seems to go to almost the very beginning of the video.

I get the feeling that it's related to my xbmc not being able to see the livetv directory but I'm not sure. Can you expand on why livetv directory needs to be shared?

Some specifics:
in my nextpvr host I have the livetv buffer set to F:\Media\LiveTV
NextPVR is running on PC with 192.168.0.88 IP.

For my rpi, I created advancedsettings.xml file with the following:
<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>F:\Media\LiveTV\</from>
<to>SMB://192.168.0.88/Media/LiveTV/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

Any ideas?

Thanks,

[dgeezer]

Try changing your windows path to using forward slashes. I also don't know if SMB is case sensitive but mine is not caps.

Here is my advanced settings.xml file which works on both my Amazon Fire TV and my chromebox running openelec:

<advancedsettings>
<pathsubstitution>
<substitute>
<from>D:/NPVR_Record/</from>
<to>smb://192.168.1.14/NPVR_Record/</to>
</substitute>
</pathsubstitution>
</advancedsettings>

[mvallevand]

I have a similar setup (Openelec Rpi + X-Newa) and it's working very well. I'm now trying to get time-shifting to work but not quite there yet. When I start to play a TV channel I see some pre-buffering so I think VLC is loading correctly now (I didn't see pre-buffering screen before).

For clarification for others reading this post, this is the x-newa custom timeshifting mode. The Native Live TV mode is not seekable. PVR mode might also work you have Timeshifting enabled for it in sub's addon, but there are issues using PVR mode too.

I get the feeling that it's related to my xbmc not being able to see the livetv directory but I'm not sure. Can you expand on why livetv directory needs to be shared?

Sure. The way the custom mode works is to create one big temp file in the recording folder that x-newa can read using smb mode. http files can't grow.

in my nextpvr host I have the livetv buffer set to F:\Media\LiveTV

advancedsettings.xml is case sensitive confirm that is what you are seeing in the kodi.log file and also maybe slashes as dgeezer wrote.

<to>SMB://192.168.0.88/Media/LiveTV/</to>

it might be smb:// not SMB

Martin

[mvallevand]

on both my Amazon Fire TV and my chromebox running openelec:

Which do you prefer? I love Kodi on my Chromebox because of the speed, it plays everything I have (I don't have vc1) and boot time and also because of de-interlacing issues I don't use my FTV much. I know there is a test build from koying that is said to improve that but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.

Martin

[dgeezer]

Both devices have their pros and cons.

The chromebox with Openelec works extremely well for playback of my mkv files and as a client with X-newa. It is quick to start and very responsive navigating the menus. Playback of npvr recordings are great. Comskip works very well on my OTA recordings. Also, I really like that my logitech smart hub remote controls the chromebox through bluetooth. Suspend and wake up even works. However, I don't have a good way to view Netflix on this kodi box. Probably about 20 to 30 percent of our tv watching these days is Netflix. I've tried playon and really don't like it. I don't think that there is any other way to get Netflix in Kodi.

The Amazon fire tv also plays back all of my mkv files great. Navigation through the menus is very good. I also really like that I can use the native android Netflix app from Kodi. I used to think that the fire tv had pretty good playback of my npvr recordings. However, I read one of your posts about the lack of deinterlacing on the fire tv and tried to see what you were describing. Now any kind of fast motion on the screen drives me crazy. Thanks :-)

I run comskip on all my npvr recordings. Fairly often I will have recordings that won't play on the fire tv. They hang and never start. Even the ones that do play take about 10 seconds to start. The same recordings play just fine on the chromebox and start up within a second or two.

If there was an official approved way to get netflix on the chromebox, there would be no contest between the two devices.

[mvallevand]

I agree with your comments, although I have multiple HDMI inputs on my AVR and I have no concern whatsoever about have to using multiple players. I have an Android player for Spotify, I opt for the FTV for Netflix but it doesn't have "free" Spotify and then use the Chromebox for everything else except actual BluRay discs I still rent from time to time. At least my FTV remote paired easily with the Chromebox and my Android device.

Netflix on the FTV is nice and my first choice, but I also have it on my TV, my Android Player, my PS and on the BluRay player so I wouldn't buy one just for it (and in Canada the FTV doesn't offer a lot of the services that Americans get). I avoid moving between devices because nothing ruins Netflix for me more than having to update the player to watch a movie.

Sorry for changing the FTV experience hopefully we will have the same improved experience as the others have with the test build.

Martin