[stiebs]

As the title says, I'm new here. And I just wanted to take a little time to thank the Kobi community for such an easy and seamless experience getting my setup up and going.

Here's my experience to date.

Few weeks ago, bought a new QNAP NAS. Found support for DVBLink. Looked promising. Bought a HDHomeRun. With almost no effort, I had DVBLink playing and recording live TV. Looked more promising. Looking really promising. Bought a Raspberry Pi 2 and a FLIRC.

Last night I gathered up all my bits and pieces, including cables, power supply, Harmony remote, and laptop for internet help. Got myself ready to pull and all-nighter to make everything work. Grabbed a stiff drink, and got to it..

Plugged my SD card into my new Raspberry Pi 2, plugged in keyboard/mouse/HDMI and turned in on hoping for the worst.
I was presented with NOOBS and selected the RPi2 OPENELEC installation.

Five minutes later, I was presented with the Kodi setup. I installed the DVBLink add-on, and I was watching and recording live TV. And to my surprise, my TV remote was controlling Kobi through CEC before I even thought about plugging in the FLIRC.

So instead of spending the expected 3-4 hours getting everything working, it was 20-30 minutes getting it all working, and 2-3 hours of playing with settings and skins, and actually watching TV.

Kudos and a big thank you to everyone in Kodi community that has contributed to make it so effortless to get started!

[nickr]

Welcome and thanks for your positive 1st post.

[Martijn]

Good to hear that at times everything works as smooth as we sometimes hope it will go

[zag]

Amazing, although there is still work to be done to make it even easier!

[bry]

the fun is just beginning

[h.udo]

What's Kobi? Where can I find that amazing software?

[stiebs]

What's Kobi? Where can I find that amazing software?

Oops.. Looks like I posted in the wrong forum! Not sure what this Kodi thing is, but you should give this Kobi a try. It's well worth the effort!

[stiebs]

the fun is just beginning

So I'm finding out.. Instead of having to make do with the shortcomings of a store-bought device, if there's something I don't like I just know that there's something I can do to make it better.. I can see plenty of time being spent on this..

[Fail$tyle420]

So glad to hear a positive success story! Not that Kodi is "idiot-proof" but so many times you hear complaints and it's something in the settings. Glad to hear it worked out for you and welcome to the black pit that is kodi!