[ctharp]

Can someone point me to a "How to" for setting-up IPTV that actually works? I have watched about 10 YouTube videos explaining how to setup Live TV on Kodi. Guess what? None of them worked. The best I've gotten so far is perhaps 2 or 3 channels to work. Never have I gotten any of the HBO or other movie channels to work. I've never gotten CNN or Fox to work either. I have used about 10 PVR's and none of them produced more than 2 or 3 channels that actually worked even though there were as many as 100's and even 1,000's of channels to choose from, only 2 or 3 actually work. What a bummer.

[rpcameron]

Kodi doesn't handle Live TV on its own. It relies upon PVR add-ons to connect with a backend that handles your LiveTV, and then makes those streams available through Kodi's interface; the 2 clear exceptions to this are the HDHomeRun client which implies you have a recent model HDHR receiver on the same network, and the IPTV Simple Client which presents streams, although neither have recording capabilities in their default add-on.

In order to direct you to better help, some information about your setup is required, such as which backend (if any) that you use, and who your TV provider is.

[mellomade]

And Kodi also won't work for channels that are DRM protected - like HBO and probably the good majority of your cable provider's channels. Which is likely the reason only 'some' of your channels tune.