[MichaelJDK]

Hi.

It's really nice to see the added Live TV support, although I haven't been able to try it out just yet.

My setup:

HTPC in the living room. (E-350 w. SSD)
NAS (dedicated PC running Windows) store elsewhere in house. (all media is located here)
My computers are running in a gigabit network.

I'm having a Hauppauge WinTV-Nova-TD-500 laying around. A dual tuner DVB-T card. I was wondering if I can use Live TV this way:

1) Put the DVB-T card in my NAS.
2) Record TV and store recorded TV on my NAS.
3) Schedule recordings via webbrowser from my laptop.
4) Watch live TV and TV-recordings in XBMC 12 on my HTPC
5) Is dual-tuner supported in XBMC? So I can record one show while watching another

edit: actually it would be nice to have the following too:
6) Access to "TV Guide"
7) Schedule recordings directly from XBMC (TV Guide)

Can these steps be done? Any help is appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Michael

[Jönke]

Yes to all questions! Install dvbviewer or nextpvr as backend

[MichaelJDK]

Fantastic!

I guess it's possible to shift channel too

What would you recommend as backend? what is easiest "out-of-the-box"?

[bluewizard]

If you are in the UK, the easiest to set-up is a slightly hacked version of Media Portal however it doesn't (as far as I know) allow recording to be set-up via a web browser. Its a 30-40min set-up including EPG set-up.

Heres a quick copy and paste from another thread I wrote on.


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Do the full set-up. The reason why I choose Media-Portal is that some-one has created a slightly hacked version which can add all the Sky Channels including Genres (i.e entertainment, sport, news etc...) at practically a touch of the button. It makes this the quickest install that I know of. It also does FreeSat channels.

If you use this... first install the real MediaPortal and then the modified version after.
Normal link;
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-download

Here is a link to the modified version including instructions.
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/thread...ber.96767/

I use 1.3.0. I haven't noticed any issues with it.

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The back-end does the hard job. You set-up the channels, EPG etc... there and XMBC simply will reflect how you set it up. You watch TV through XBMC with the stream created from the back-end. If you set it up correctly XBMC will have an EPG, and also allow you to set-up recordings and watch them back.

All the back-end's do basically the same job and it comes down to personal preference.

I like MediaPortal as its easy to set-up.
I used to use Next-PVR years ago and it was always robust. It used to use less resources than Mediaportal. I'm expecting will be similar now. Not as easy to set-up as Mediaportal though.
Argus TV, has an EPG that you can use via a web browser. I find it a bugger to set-up to others here like it.

Most people though seem to agree that that Linux TV-backends are more robust. If you are setting your server up from scratch it is maybe something you should look into.