2016-08-15, 19:50
March Hare Productions presents:
Your Kodi box and missing PVR clients; an adventure in learning.
Well, first things first; Welcome to the NextPVR forum, I hope you find all of the answers you are looking for!
So, you have a burning desire to cut the cable and get rid of (insert company here).
You get an antenna for your TV for live broadcast and researched OTA recording for your TV shows.
You set up your NextPVR recording backend and get OTA recording working; you’re getting your TV shows.
Life is good!
One of your friends raves about this great box that gives them all of the movies and shows on the internet, for free!
So you get one.
You hook up the android TV box you purchased from (insert retailer here) and try to connect to your backend to watch the shows that you’ve recorded.
You launch Kodi and try to configure TV but get a message that there aren’t any PVR clients installed.
Confusion. You double check everything; nope, no PVR clients are installed.
Next stop; the Kodi Forum!
After reading The Kodi Forum Rules and Piracy Policy (you did, right?) you check out the NextPVR forum to find a solution.
You've come to the right place!
First, the good news; this is a fixable problem!
Now, the bad news; that Kodi ‘build’ you have on your box, has to be uninstalled and an official Kodi build installed.
This won't damage your box in any way and will give you a clean install of Kodi with the PVR clients.
When the retailer you purchased your box from installed Kodi, they chose, for whatever reason, to leave out some functionality; so they removed the PVR clients.
Reinstalling Kodi will get the PVR clients installed and remove any other unexpected additions.
Uninstalling Kodi is as easy as going to the Apps section in Settings, finding Kodi and uninstalling it.
Then, go to The Google Store, search for Kodi and install it!
This will get you the official Kodi build with full functionality while at the same time removing the unsupported Addins which are giving Kodi a bad name in some circles.
Now you will be able to configure TV in Kodi and connect to your NextPVR server and watch your recorded shows!
Happy Day!
I know that this works, because it's what I did to the box that hubby dearest purchased.
Enjoy!
-MH
Your Kodi box and missing PVR clients; an adventure in learning.
Well, first things first; Welcome to the NextPVR forum, I hope you find all of the answers you are looking for!
So, you have a burning desire to cut the cable and get rid of (insert company here).
You get an antenna for your TV for live broadcast and researched OTA recording for your TV shows.
You set up your NextPVR recording backend and get OTA recording working; you’re getting your TV shows.
Life is good!
One of your friends raves about this great box that gives them all of the movies and shows on the internet, for free!
So you get one.
You hook up the android TV box you purchased from (insert retailer here) and try to connect to your backend to watch the shows that you’ve recorded.
You launch Kodi and try to configure TV but get a message that there aren’t any PVR clients installed.
Confusion. You double check everything; nope, no PVR clients are installed.
Next stop; the Kodi Forum!
After reading The Kodi Forum Rules and Piracy Policy (you did, right?) you check out the NextPVR forum to find a solution.
You've come to the right place!
First, the good news; this is a fixable problem!
Now, the bad news; that Kodi ‘build’ you have on your box, has to be uninstalled and an official Kodi build installed.
This won't damage your box in any way and will give you a clean install of Kodi with the PVR clients.
When the retailer you purchased your box from installed Kodi, they chose, for whatever reason, to leave out some functionality; so they removed the PVR clients.
Reinstalling Kodi will get the PVR clients installed and remove any other unexpected additions.
Uninstalling Kodi is as easy as going to the Apps section in Settings, finding Kodi and uninstalling it.
Then, go to The Google Store, search for Kodi and install it!
This will get you the official Kodi build with full functionality while at the same time removing the unsupported Addins which are giving Kodi a bad name in some circles.
Now you will be able to configure TV in Kodi and connect to your NextPVR server and watch your recorded shows!
Happy Day!
I know that this works, because it's what I did to the box that hubby dearest purchased.
Enjoy!
-MH