Hey guys,
i bought the "Wetek Play" box to test Kodi.
Currently the box runs with OpenELEC 5.0.8 + Kodi 14.2 + TV Headend 4.x.
I normally use Mediaportal and I miss one feature.
This missing feature prevents me to switch to Kodi permanently.
Apparently it is not possible to show channels without epg data in the timeline view.
They are in the small channel list but not in the timeline.
Further I can't start a channel from the timeline with the "no data" entry.
Are there any workarounds?
Sorry for any mistakes but I'm not an english native speaker.
Greets
This is a known problem with Kodi: if there is no guide data the channel is not in the timeline view. Some backend pvr programs (like the wmc one) implement a fix for this in the backend, but until kodi itself changes this will remain dependent on the backend.
Is there a backend for Linux which supports a fix like the wmc, too?
I do not know. Hopefully one of the linux people will answer.
I use DVBLink (Windows) and I can create a local XMLTV file for the channel that has no EPG (my nursery cam via IPTV) and tell DVBlink to use that. It then gets pulled through in to timeline view of EPG.
I don't think any of the Linux backends have any workarounds for this.
THX!
For the Wetek-Play I have to wait for a fix.
For my main system (Windows) i will try the method with DVB-Link because I want to use the acamd/hadu plugin.
Does ServerWMC support such a plugin?
(2015-09-23, 20:08)negge Wrote: [ -> ]I don't think any of the Linux backends have any workarounds for this.
Would it maybe not be best to implement a solution for this on the frontend (Kodi) side?
Yes, of course. I looked into it once but gave up pretty quickly (it didn't seem that easy to fix).
+1 for a 'show channels without EPG data in guide' option.
Probably creating pseudo hourly 'No Guide Data' entries would work best, but might confuse the backend if someone tried to create an EPG based timer from them, so this would need to be catered for...
Still should be possible IMO (but I haven't tried to actually do it yet!)
fwiw, the workaround we use for this on the serverwmc side is to just give the "empty" channel a single dummy program entry whose title is "No guide data available" and I set its endtime to a couple of weeks into the future.
Yeah I guess that works, although I doubt I'll be adding this kind of workaround to pvr.hts at least. Let's hope someone steps up and fixes the underlying issue.
To be more clear on my latest post: My PR I was referring to is the Kodi core fix/improvement you were talking about here, not a workaround of some kind... :-)
That's great. Thanks for taking it on.