2015-10-16, 19:40
I've been researching for a solid week and can't seem to get an accurate answer so I thought I would bring it to the pros! In a nutshell, my ultimate goal is to have my OTA and IPTV all in one guide. Here's my ramblings
I'm running Kodi on windows.
I'm using NextPVR
I have the newer HDHomerun Connect (Network accessible Dual Tuner)
I currently have the hdhomerun addon installed in Kodi
I have the NextPVR addon installed in Kodi
Here's the rub. If I have the following setup. HDHomerun Addon enabled in Kodi (Don't know if I need it with this setup but it's on), I have the Tuner configured in Next PVR and the channels are scanned in there. I have Live TV enabled in Kodi. If I go to the TV section in Kodi, I see my Over-The-Air channels as well as the EPG data for each channel. I don't know if the guide data is coming from NextPVR, from the HDHomerun Addon, or from something in Kodi that's pulls guide info but it's there. If I wanted to stop there I would be good. I'd have my 13 local OTA channels, the EPG info, and the ability to record & play the shows with nextPVR. But I want more channels.
So I turned on IPTV Simple Client and installed iVue and everything went haywire. My OTA channels were gone from the guide that came with Kodi. I'm not 100% sure but I think they were replaced with the same ones that showed in my iVue guide. I did a lot of research and saw a lot of people having issues with multiple TV sources. A lot of them were having to stop and restart Kodi multiple times to get the right channels to show in the guide. Each restart was toggling which channels were showing in the guide, the OTA stuff or the IPTV ones.
I want to be able to open either the guide included in Kodi or an iptv guide such as ivue and see my OTA channels listed first, then all the iptv channels listed.
I thought about finding a way to alter the m3u and add my OTA channels but then they wont be coming through NextPVR and I wouldn't be able to record them right?
This isn't THAT high on the list but I would like to be able to record the iptv channels as well.
Where is the guide data coming from for the iptv channels? I though if there was a PVR backend that let me add either a m3u playlist for iptv channels or even ad each iptv stream manually as a channel to the PVR then I would do that but then how would they get their EPG data? Plus I don't know of a PVR backend that could do that.
I wouldn't even mind if my OTA stuff ran through NextPVR and the Kodi guide and I had to open up the iVue guide to see the IPTV channels but it seems like as soon as I set up Ivue or another IPTV addon then the Kodi guide OTA channels get wiped out.
Ultimately, and I doubt we are there yet, I wish there was a (FREE) PVR backend that I could add multiple TV sources such as OTA tuner, individual IPTV streams, and m3u playlists then create channel groups to show the channels I want to see in the Kodi guide and use the PVR backend for all the EPG and recording of ANY channel.
Lastly, and this is more of a question, when I install an IPTV addon and put the m3u fill in there it's usually a link to a website. Is the m3u list being regularly update on that site? I thought about creating a custom m3u list that has the OTA channels at the start and some of the IP channels below but then when the IP channel links go bad I would have to find new links for those stations each time and manually update the playlist right? Plus, do the channels have to be coming through the PVR backend before they can be recorded or as long as they are in Kodi the PVR can record them?
Any guidance at all on how to add multiple TV sources effectively and how to merge them all into one guide without overlap?
I'm running Kodi on windows.
I'm using NextPVR
I have the newer HDHomerun Connect (Network accessible Dual Tuner)
I currently have the hdhomerun addon installed in Kodi
I have the NextPVR addon installed in Kodi
Here's the rub. If I have the following setup. HDHomerun Addon enabled in Kodi (Don't know if I need it with this setup but it's on), I have the Tuner configured in Next PVR and the channels are scanned in there. I have Live TV enabled in Kodi. If I go to the TV section in Kodi, I see my Over-The-Air channels as well as the EPG data for each channel. I don't know if the guide data is coming from NextPVR, from the HDHomerun Addon, or from something in Kodi that's pulls guide info but it's there. If I wanted to stop there I would be good. I'd have my 13 local OTA channels, the EPG info, and the ability to record & play the shows with nextPVR. But I want more channels.
So I turned on IPTV Simple Client and installed iVue and everything went haywire. My OTA channels were gone from the guide that came with Kodi. I'm not 100% sure but I think they were replaced with the same ones that showed in my iVue guide. I did a lot of research and saw a lot of people having issues with multiple TV sources. A lot of them were having to stop and restart Kodi multiple times to get the right channels to show in the guide. Each restart was toggling which channels were showing in the guide, the OTA stuff or the IPTV ones.
I want to be able to open either the guide included in Kodi or an iptv guide such as ivue and see my OTA channels listed first, then all the iptv channels listed.
I thought about finding a way to alter the m3u and add my OTA channels but then they wont be coming through NextPVR and I wouldn't be able to record them right?
This isn't THAT high on the list but I would like to be able to record the iptv channels as well.
Where is the guide data coming from for the iptv channels? I though if there was a PVR backend that let me add either a m3u playlist for iptv channels or even ad each iptv stream manually as a channel to the PVR then I would do that but then how would they get their EPG data? Plus I don't know of a PVR backend that could do that.
I wouldn't even mind if my OTA stuff ran through NextPVR and the Kodi guide and I had to open up the iVue guide to see the IPTV channels but it seems like as soon as I set up Ivue or another IPTV addon then the Kodi guide OTA channels get wiped out.
Ultimately, and I doubt we are there yet, I wish there was a (FREE) PVR backend that I could add multiple TV sources such as OTA tuner, individual IPTV streams, and m3u playlists then create channel groups to show the channels I want to see in the Kodi guide and use the PVR backend for all the EPG and recording of ANY channel.
Lastly, and this is more of a question, when I install an IPTV addon and put the m3u fill in there it's usually a link to a website. Is the m3u list being regularly update on that site? I thought about creating a custom m3u list that has the OTA channels at the start and some of the IP channels below but then when the IP channel links go bad I would have to find new links for those stations each time and manually update the playlist right? Plus, do the channels have to be coming through the PVR backend before they can be recorded or as long as they are in Kodi the PVR can record them?
Any guidance at all on how to add multiple TV sources effectively and how to merge them all into one guide without overlap?