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I'm still running MythTV frontend to watch LiveTV. I would like to use Kodi and I like all the progress in the PVR section of Kodi.
But I have one question, that MythTV frontend cant handle. It is when you watch a show and decide to start recording that show. If you then want to change channel you are "stuck" on the channels that are on the same mux as the channel you are recording. Even though there are free tuners, MythTV frontend cant automatically change to one of them. The user must have knowledge of the internals of the computer you are using an know that there are free tuners and then manually change to another tuner.
I don't think that the user should have to know anything about the internals of the box. If there are a free tuner it should automatically be used when the user switches channel.
Can this be handled by Kodi and the addon automatically?
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2016-03-04, 04:44
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-04, 04:45 by LeKodeur.)
Perhaps you have not configured your Mythbackend properly. In Kodi, if I watch a TV channel from a broadcaster (OTA), press record and change to another OTA channel then as long as I have a free tuner I can change to another broadcaster. Check the way you configured your tuners and 'inputs' in Mythbackend.
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If you have multiple tuners, when you initially set up your backend it should be configured to automatically give you a second tuner when you want to switch away from an in-progress recording; this is generally done by assigned the same input to the tuners.
If you have multiple tuners, and this behavior is not happening (whether in mythfrontend or Kodi), then your problem is most likely with your backend setup. If mythfrontend is not working correctly, then it does not follow that Kodi would behave differently. You should get your backend setup, configured and tested wholly with MythTV before assigning blame to Kodi.
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I'm not sure how MythTV works with multiple services on the same mux, but I have heard that as long as your channel is a different service on the same mux, then you can continue recording and it will switch the display to the new service without using a different tuner.
I'm in the US, and our corporate overlords have decided that DVB is too corporate unfriendly. Therefore our cable systems don't really support this type of freedom. My setup involves 2 HDHomeRun Primes, each of which has 3 tuners. In MythTV I had to mark each tuner of each device as a tuner, and I've assigned them all to the same input. MythTV automatically set it up so that when a request for a new channel occurs when a recording is in progress that it will stream the channel on a new available tuner.
(As an aside, why is it that no backend seems to be able to determine that if a tuner is already on a channel when a new client requests that channel that it cannot just stream that one tuner to multiple clients? Why does it need to allocate a secnd tuner? This would also solve the problem of allowing back-to-back recordings to have larger before and after paddings ... Oh well)
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I haven't had the time to investigate my setup yet, but it is on the todo list.
Appreciate all the testing you have done.