[mythtv-users] Android TV boxes

Gerald Brandt gbr at majentis.com
Sat Aug 26 16:02:35 UTC 2017



On 2017-08-26 10:18 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Sat, 2017-08-26 at 09:51 -0400, Steve Greene wrote:
>> I'm seeing a wealth of cheap Android TV boxes on Amazon. Assuming
>> they can
>> run the Android mythfrontend client
> Is the Android MFE client functional enough?  Last I looked, it
> couldn't delete recordings.
>
> If you really want to go the Android box way, you would probably be
> better off with Kodi.  But you also have to engineer getting recordings
> from MythBE to Kodi in a way that is useful in the Kodi context.  The
> filenames on MythBE recordings are pretty useless outside of the BE for
> example.  There is a Myth PVR plugin for Kodi but I have found it makes
> Kodi pretty unstable and so gave up on it and just started having the
> BE hand off the recorded programs to Kodi with a post-recording job.
>
> Cheers,
> b.
>

Hi,

I'm interested in your post-recording job. I assume you rename the file 
and move it to where Kodi can find it?

Gerald



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