2015-09-07, 00:02
If you are sick of waiting for this to be fixed AND you are running Ubuntu 14.04 AND you would not mind going back to Kodi Helix to fix this, here is a way that SEEMS to work. No guarantees, but it worked one box I tried it on.
Follow the procedure at http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=234322 to revert back to Kodi Helix. If you have any problems uninstalling the current version, install Synaptic and do a "complete removal" of the Kodi packages from there, and don't forget to delete (or at least rename) the .kodi subdirectory in your user directory. Also remove the kodi-pvr-hts package! Then, while you are using dpkg to install kodi and kodi-bin, watch the output, if it says there are unmet dependencies you will need to install them and/or use "sudo apt-get -f install" to resolve them, then do the dpkg thing again and make sure there are no remaining complaints about missing dependencies before proceeding.
Now here is the part that's a little dicey, but SEEMS to work. In order to get the previous TVHeadend addon, you could edit your repository list to tell it to use the Kodi precise repo rather than the trusty repo. This is pretty easily done inside Synaptic, and maybe can be done inside Ubuntu's Software Center program as well, but I'm more familiar with Synaptic. And then you will want to install the xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts addon. Alternately, and this is probably the better way but it's not the way I tried, you can get a .deb file of version 1.9.31-15 built for Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit version) here: https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/..._amd64.deb (if you need a build for a different version of Ubuntu just use the search function, such as https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text...rch=Search ).
After you have this working I would disable all Kodi repositories temporarily, so you don't accidentally reinstall Isengard before they fix the problem (hope springs eternal).
I take no responsibility if you try this and screw up your system; if you don't know what you are doing then maybe you should just wait for a fix. I managed to do this on a system I don't use much anymore, but I'm not quite ready to do it on my main HTPC yet. And if you read the thread in my first link above, you will see that the Kodi developers (one in particular) seem to really, REALLY hate the idea of anyone going back to an older version of Kodi. Well unfortunately, this problem is annoying enough to me that if it's not fixed before the fall TV season starts in earnest I probably will go back, not because I really want to (I have no issue with Isengard overall) but because this particular problem rises to the level of a major annoyance, and so far it doesn't really seem like the developers of the addon care at all, seeing as how they appear to have gone silent on us.
EDIT: It looks like they REALLY don't want you to do this, because that thread has completely disappeared! Better look at Google's cached version before it disappears as well!
Follow the procedure at http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=234322 to revert back to Kodi Helix. If you have any problems uninstalling the current version, install Synaptic and do a "complete removal" of the Kodi packages from there, and don't forget to delete (or at least rename) the .kodi subdirectory in your user directory. Also remove the kodi-pvr-hts package! Then, while you are using dpkg to install kodi and kodi-bin, watch the output, if it says there are unmet dependencies you will need to install them and/or use "sudo apt-get -f install" to resolve them, then do the dpkg thing again and make sure there are no remaining complaints about missing dependencies before proceeding.
Now here is the part that's a little dicey, but SEEMS to work. In order to get the previous TVHeadend addon, you could edit your repository list to tell it to use the Kodi precise repo rather than the trusty repo. This is pretty easily done inside Synaptic, and maybe can be done inside Ubuntu's Software Center program as well, but I'm more familiar with Synaptic. And then you will want to install the xbmc-pvr-tvheadend-hts addon. Alternately, and this is probably the better way but it's not the way I tried, you can get a .deb file of version 1.9.31-15 built for Ubuntu 14.04 (64-bit version) here: https://launchpad.net/~wsnipex/+archive/..._amd64.deb (if you need a build for a different version of Ubuntu just use the search function, such as https://launchpad.net/+search?field.text...rch=Search ).
After you have this working I would disable all Kodi repositories temporarily, so you don't accidentally reinstall Isengard before they fix the problem (hope springs eternal).
I take no responsibility if you try this and screw up your system; if you don't know what you are doing then maybe you should just wait for a fix. I managed to do this on a system I don't use much anymore, but I'm not quite ready to do it on my main HTPC yet. And if you read the thread in my first link above, you will see that the Kodi developers (one in particular) seem to really, REALLY hate the idea of anyone going back to an older version of Kodi. Well unfortunately, this problem is annoying enough to me that if it's not fixed before the fall TV season starts in earnest I probably will go back, not because I really want to (I have no issue with Isengard overall) but because this particular problem rises to the level of a major annoyance, and so far it doesn't really seem like the developers of the addon care at all, seeing as how they appear to have gone silent on us.
EDIT: It looks like they REALLY don't want you to do this, because that thread has completely disappeared! Better look at Google's cached version before it disappears as well!
