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TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - SikeMo - 2014-09-16
I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this, but having a TV guide that links to the UPnP streams from my HDHomeRun would be excellent. I am planning to watch TV on my OpenElec box without running an external backend and thought it would be a great addition.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - bry - 2014-09-16
(2014-09-16, 09:32)SikeMo Wrote: I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this, but having a TV guide that links to the UPnP streams from my HDHomeRun would be excellent. I am planning to watch TV on my OpenElec box without running an external backend and thought it would be a great addition.
pseudo tv live hdhomerun integration
this is a better way for strm information - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169032&pid=1770588#pid1770588
tv guide will also work - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=120377
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - Ned Scott - 2014-09-16
What I do is I select the UPnP folder for my HDHomeRun and select queue, then save it as a playlist. Then I use the Simple IPTV PVR add-on, select the playlist, and it works with XBMC/Kodi's native live TV features (except recording, of course). I even have a downloaded EPG in xml format that downloads to my NAS that gives me the full EPG.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - Ned Scott - 2014-09-16
(2014-09-16, 17:29)bry- Wrote:(2014-09-16, 09:32)SikeMo Wrote: I'm not sure if there is already a way to do this, but having a TV guide that links to the UPnP streams from my HDHomeRun would be excellent. I am planning to watch TV on my OpenElec box without running an external backend and thought it would be a great addition.
pseudo tv live hdhomerun integration
this is a better way for strm information - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169032&pid=1770588#pid1770588
tv guide will also work - http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=120377
Meh, those are the old ways. Using UPnP is much better, because it dynamically allocates available tuners, instead of having to generate STRM files for each tuner.
Re: RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - bry - 2014-09-16
(2014-09-16, 22:34)Ned Scott Wrote: What I do is I select the UPnP folder for my HDHomeRun and select queue, then save it as a playlist. Then I use the Simple IPTV PVR add-on, select the playlist, and it works with XBMC/Kodi's native live TV features (except recording, of course). I even have a downloaded EPG in xml format that downloads to my NAS that gives me the full EPG.
What do you use to pull your xmltv? Mc2xml?
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - Ned Scott - 2014-09-16
Yep, mc2xml and Schedules Direct for US programming.
I did have to edit a couple of channels in the generated .m3u playlist that XBMC made from my UPnP sources, in order to get the channel names to line up with the EPG XML file, but most channels should be fine.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - bry - 2014-09-17
(2014-09-16, 22:35)Ned Scott Wrote: Meh, those are the old ways. Using UPnP is much better, because it dynamically allocates available tuners, instead of having to generate STRM files for each tuner.
Look at the second link - its the upnp strm information for each chan.
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=169032&pid=1770588#pid1770588
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - Ned Scott - 2014-09-17
Sure, but generating the m3u playlist is easier for me than making individual STRM files, even if the STRM files are using a UPnP path (or in this case, they're technically using http, but it's the same virtual channel interface for either protocol).
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - RockerC - 2014-09-17
I don't have one but you could probably just add HDHomeRun to a real PVR backend like Tvheadend or MediaPortal server for EPG, ex checkout https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/pull/425 ?
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - SikeMo - 2014-09-17
That's not the point of this thread, unfortunately. My point is that I don't want to run a backend. I will try Simple IPTV PVR.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - SikeMo - 2014-09-18
Hi Ned Scott,
I have successfully added the playlist and can watch my channels now. However I am still having difficulty importing guide info. I am using mc2xml with Schedules Direct and am pointing Simple IPTV to the xml file on my NAS. Still no guide info. Any ideas?
Regards...
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - Ned Scott - 2014-09-18
It could be how Schedules Direct names the channels, but you should at least get a couple of matches. Simple IPTV will try to match channels using the name in the guide XML and the name in the playlist file, but sometimes the name from the playlist isn't quite right.
For example, HDHomeRun called Comedy Central "COMEDY-W", so that's how it was saved in the playlist
Schedules Direct's xml file has "39 COMEDYP", "39", "COMEDYP", and "Comedy Central (Pacific)".
Even if the HDHomeRun simply called it "Comedy Central", it probably would still mess up. Since the EPG file gets generated every few days I decided it was easier to edit the .m3u playlist file (should be in the userdata folder (wiki)) and correct the channels that were wrong.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - SikeMo - 2014-09-18
It worked! Thanks very much. Now my last problem... channel icons keep disappearing.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - kmallick - 2015-01-04
(2014-09-16, 22:34)Ned Scott Wrote: What I do is I select the UPnP folder for my HDHomeRun and select queue, then save it as a playlist. Then I use the Simple IPTV PVR add-on, select the playlist, and it works with XBMC/Kodi's native live TV features (except recording, of course). I even have a downloaded EPG in xml format that downloads to my NAS that gives me the full EPG.
@ned, Can you please elaborate on how exactly you do this? On what type of machine or client?
"What I do is I select the UPnP folder for my HDHomeRun and select queue, then save it as a playlist."
Thanks a lot.
RE: TV Guide with UPnP HDHomeRun Streams - Ned Scott - 2015-01-05
You just make a playlist from the UPnP folder within Kodi by using the basic playlist (wiki) feature.