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All very interesting. Perhaps if there was enough willing to support
the Pi with some cash, then you never now there may be someone to
take on the challenge.<br>
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I have tried Kodi, worked quite well, but the interface was too much
of a culture change for all of us in the house. At vote was taken,
and we all prefer the simple familiar Mythfrontend. <br>
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P<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/05/15 21:43, Peter Bennett
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Was this a while ago that you had to compile? Perhaps it was
simply an issue with your chosen disto, we all get that
sometimes. I use OpenSUSE 13.2 and the standard RPMs had
everything I needed. Similarly, on Android it was just a case
of downloading the .apk and installing that, no need to root
anything.<br>
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This was a two or three months ago - my distro is "raspbian"
which is the raspberry Pi version of Debian, and the version of
Kodi on there simply did not work with the mythtv pvr plugin
that was there. I located other repositories that were
recommended but there were library issues such as this:<br>
ERROR: Unable to load
/home/pi/.kodi/addons/pvr.mythtv/pvr.mythtv.so, reason:
/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/libstdc++.so.6: version
`GLIBCXX_3.4.20' not found (required by
/home/pi/.kodi/addons/pvr.mythtv/pvr.mythtv.so)<br>
This seems to be a compatibility problem between the library
version installed in Linux and the version the application was
compiled under.<br>
There are other distributions "OSMC" and "Openelec", which are
appliance load and go types of solutions, these work better but
I prefer to have control over the system and these are rather
opaque in how they are set up.<br>
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Also there is a bug in Kodi with the remote I am using and
Raspberry pi - I made a source patch to get around that - I have
logged a Kodi bug and supplied the patch, but nobody seems to be
taking any action about fixing the upstream source.<br>
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Peter<br>
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Ah, see this is where half of the "this doesn't work" quotes come
from. I'm not getting at you, but you have chosen to stick to a
specific distribution, for all the right reasons, and within that
distribution you have specific issues, so it's not a problem with
KODI as such, but with KODI on raspbian.<br>
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I had a similar issue recently when I bought a new Lenovo Z50-70
and installed OpenSUSE 13.2 only to discover that there was a
known problem with the then current kernel version and the left
mouse button on the touchpad. <br>
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The solution was to either put up with it (tapping the touchpad
itself worked fine as a left click), install an external mouse, or
install an "unstable" kernel RPM. I chose to simply go for the
"tap the touchpad", as this is my normal left click action when
using a touchpad, and a month or so later a newer kernel was
pushed out which fixed the problem.<br>
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What I'm trying to say is that you can't really blame KODI for the
issues, rather it's down to a combination of the KODI version,
developers and the distro release folks. You're obviously in a
more restricted position than me, as I can always go and use any
x86 based distro, but the same concept holds, I was just lucky
that KODI worked fine for me, including the MythPVR plugin. Like
you, I choose to use a distro I'm familiar and comfortable with
rather than go and use something like MythBuntu which is reported
to work "out of the box" because I like being able to configure
the system just the way I like it.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Gordon<br>
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