[mythtv-users] Adding Kodi Library to Myth

Michael Wisniewski mikewiz38 at gmail.com
Fri May 22 16:52:15 UTC 2015


D'oh!  Why did I not think about having mythfrontend and kodi in the same
instance!?!?  I spent about a day or two getting irexec and the remote to
dual boot and switch between grub.conf files and reboot.

Many years ago though, I dealt with building a minimal Ubuntu box and
installing Kodi from the repo.  I got tired of the little goofy details, so
I went to OpenElec.  It's nicer because everything is better organized and
I can backup the configs and rebuild within minutes.  Maybe I should had
done the single boot instead of the dual boot....  :)  But hey, it was a
learning experience.

Thanks for the info about adding it to the videos section in the backend;
I'll check that out.  I was afraid that Myth may rewrite all the nfo's or
rename everything to something that Kodi can't understand.  I boot into
Kodi and it redoes everything again.  I think that's happened to me once.
 lol.

Mike



On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Andréas Kühne <andreas at kuhne.se> wrote:

>
> 2015-05-22 18:29 GMT+02:00 Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Thomas Mashos <thomas at mashos.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 9:19 AM Michael Wisniewski <mikewiz38 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a pretty extensive library of files that are mp4 and mkv and
>>>> used within Kodi.  They are also organized pretty well (IE: Show\Season
>>>> x\Show Name-Number.mkv), and many of them have nfo's that are read by Kodi.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a dual-boot machine right now with Myth's Frontend and Kodi for
>>>> the other boot.  I do this because Myth is a lot better and nicer to use
>>>> for Live TV, but yet I've used Kodi for years and like viewing my library
>>>> within there.
>>>>
>>>> Fairly recently, I need to watch a show from Myth, but rebooting takes
>>>> awhile.  I would like to add the Kodi Library to MythTV, but I don't want
>>>> to mess the library up within Kodi.  In order to do this, do I just add a
>>>> 'storage group' on the backend for the Kodi library?  Is there a better way
>>>> to do this?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advanced.
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>>> Kodi works on Linux too.
>>>
>>>
>> I know....  Kodi's Live TV section, IMHO, is bad compared to Myth.  The
>> EPG is almost impossible to read with Confluence.  I know I can use another
>> skin, but I'm use to Confluence throughout everywhere else and prefer
>> it....everywhere except the EPG.  Also, trying to have guests here
>> (babysitters) use Kodi with Live TV is more complicated than Myth.  A few
>> clicks with Kodi and you are somewhere and confused (live background on
>> main screen).  With Myth, it's easy to get back to Live TV.
>>
>> Until Kodi changes the skin to make the EPG guide easier to use, I'm
>> going to continue to use Myth for the frontend too.  There's also some
>> other features that make Myth a bit nicer to use than Kodi.  I know there
>> was a discussion about Kodi vs Myth a few days ago and didn't really want
>> to turn it back into the discussion again.  I love Myth for Live TV, I love
>> Kodi for my video library.
>>
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> I think you missunderstod. You don't have to dual boot for kodi to work.
> You can just install kodi on the linux machine you are using for mythtv and
> then add a menu item to start kodi from mythtv. That way you'll never have
> to reboot.
>
> You can also add your library to the videos section on the mythtv backend.
> That way it'll be accessible via the mythtv frontend.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andréas
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