2026-05-11, 10:16 PM
I am getting ready to start packaging yauiclient3 and was wondering if anyone wants to test a pre-release version. It is quite different from the previous versions with improved performance and multiple OS support and it will be open source too.
For those that don't know UI clients they give the same great PVR experience as NextPVR.exe on Windows on remote PC's and devices. Up to now these device have been limited to Smart TVs, Windows and Android Roku boxes. With yauiclient 3 many more devices are available. There are test versions for macOS Linux and RPis as well as Windows and even with Windows the performance has improved over previous versions. In the next version of NextPVR, the clients will be much faster on localhost too.
If you like using thumbnails they work exceptionally well on yauiclient 3 and if you don't use them, you might start, they work that well.
One new platform that I feel is really is nice is a LibreELEC 12 and 13 version that allow yauiclient to replace Kodi and provide a true NextPVR appliance capable of not only having a hardware player but the server can be installed. This is working with x64, RPi4 and 5 (3 could work but not client and server), and new aarch64 SoC like the Rockchip 358x SoCs. Kodi is a good client too, but there are many people that prefer the NextPVR interface or just don't like the Kodi look and feel and this provides an alternative. I have tested this on 15+ year old laptops I have setting around and the performance is great, better than on today's RPi5. I had similar findings with sub $100 thin clients so while the RPi5 prices make them almost PC priced, this give a cheap way to add more clients. Using LibreELEC as a base makes it easy to use full MCE or Hauppauge remote too.
A big thanks to artmetz and also to the entire NextPVR pre-release time for getting me to this stage. I have to thank Claude too, I would have struggled to get here without it.
Martin
For those that don't know UI clients they give the same great PVR experience as NextPVR.exe on Windows on remote PC's and devices. Up to now these device have been limited to Smart TVs, Windows and Android Roku boxes. With yauiclient 3 many more devices are available. There are test versions for macOS Linux and RPis as well as Windows and even with Windows the performance has improved over previous versions. In the next version of NextPVR, the clients will be much faster on localhost too.
If you like using thumbnails they work exceptionally well on yauiclient 3 and if you don't use them, you might start, they work that well.
One new platform that I feel is really is nice is a LibreELEC 12 and 13 version that allow yauiclient to replace Kodi and provide a true NextPVR appliance capable of not only having a hardware player but the server can be installed. This is working with x64, RPi4 and 5 (3 could work but not client and server), and new aarch64 SoC like the Rockchip 358x SoCs. Kodi is a good client too, but there are many people that prefer the NextPVR interface or just don't like the Kodi look and feel and this provides an alternative. I have tested this on 15+ year old laptops I have setting around and the performance is great, better than on today's RPi5. I had similar findings with sub $100 thin clients so while the RPi5 prices make them almost PC priced, this give a cheap way to add more clients. Using LibreELEC as a base makes it easy to use full MCE or Hauppauge remote too.
A big thanks to artmetz and also to the entire NextPVR pre-release time for getting me to this stage. I have to thank Claude too, I would have struggled to get here without it.
Martin
