[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kodi

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 5:14 AM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:

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> On 6/25/2015 9:55 AM, Joseph Fry wrote:
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>  On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Kirk Bocek <t004 at kbocek.com> wrote:
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>> On 6/24/2015 10:26 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
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>>> Sounds good - I may give that a go. I have been using Kodi but not as a
>>> frontend for MythTV. When it comes to recording and watching TV I think the
>>> functionality on Mythfrontend outweighs what's available in Kodi. As an
>>> example, I have a recording template for Movies which has a set of
>>> customised settings that are used when recording a program listed as a
>>> movie. I don't think Kodi allows you to do this, and neither does Mythweb
>>> for that matter - so Mythfrontend has some features that are really useful
>>> and not available using any other frontend UI.
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>>  Small logical disconnect here. When I started this thread (I love it
>> when a thread takes off like this!) I never intended to use Kodi for
>> recording -- that's the function of Myth*Backend*. That's why I have a big,
>> beefy server with terabytes of storage in the garage for. Mythfrontend, of
>> course, does not perform recording. When you have a unified solo box it
>> runs both mythfrontend and mythbackend. Perfectly acceptable and the way I
>> started using MythTV many years ago.
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>> But my inquiry was on replacing my frontends with something small. I mean
>> really small. Raspberry Pi small. The consensus is that the hardware has
>> arrived for frontend functionality. Now we need the software.
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>  I don't think anyone is suggesting using Kodi for recording... I'm not
> even sure it can do that.  What he is talking about is scheduling
> recordings.  Most Kodi frontend users just use mythweb to schedule
> everything as the capability built into Kodi is pretty weak at the moment.
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> Oh yeah. I meant to address that in my post. I was expecting Kodi to be
> weak or non-existant with scheduling. I mostly use MythWeb right now anyway
> on my laptop or tablet. I would expect to fall back to that route.
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Being worked on http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=230145
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