[mythtv-users] MythTV on Kodi

[Kirk Bocek]

On 6/24/2015 10:26 PM, Phill Edwards wrote:
>
> 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.
>

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.

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.