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Hello all,
To explain, I set up a second Kodi to use in our bedroom (a all in one computer - no TV screen) Manage to get the two Kodi to share an emby database.
However we are currently using our tablet to watch the TV with the Virgin TV Anywhere app - it would be obviously much better to stop using the tablet altogether and be able to watch the tv from the computer also.
I have been searching for a solution either a good video addons which will have UK tv channel or even better an hack to be able to use virgin on Kodi - I know that's very unlikely.
Any tips or suggestion?
many thanks,
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A quick google reveals only piracy addons. You are welcome to Google and follow some instructions, but don't come back here for help! (Refer forum rules)
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The only legit add-ons I know of for UK TV are iPlayer-WWW, the ITV player one and the TVCatch-up one from BLXD. But those are just a few freeview channels, you won't get any of the premium ones that you could via the Virgin TV one.
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There was some effort to make a plugins for Virgin Anywhere (my account was used for testing) but we didnt get far (anywhere)
Im happy to give credentials out again should someone want to restart development - but im not sure there is that much interest.
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2016-05-27, 19:42
(This post was last modified: 2016-05-27, 19:44 by MikeKL.)
Another possibility for freeview is to enable/utilse PVR Filmon under kodi's Live TV.
(sImulates terrestrial tv connection for Filmon available channels without any Ariel & hardware etc)
As long as you have a free web account with Filmon your then able to save your favourite channels on web which then (after including user info in PVR Filmon kodi settings) become available via main kodi TV interface. I benefit of this method is you will then also have EPG information for channels and intuative channel switching within main kodi interface etc.
It's a bit slow to load up Filmon favourite channels at startup of kodi, but once up and running working well for me albeit with only an acceptable level of SD quality. (OK for a second room, with no Ariel connection etc)
RPi4, (LibreELEC 11.0) hdmi0 -> Philips 55PUS7304 4K TV, hdmi1 -> Onkyo TX-SR608 AV Receiver