[MarkT]

Thanks to Milhouse I could get vdr-addon installed. I used http://milhouse.openelec.tv/builds/addons/RPi2/ though to manually install and then updated vdr addons until nothing was left to update.

Some impressions in random order, figuring people googling will find this useful:

- USB on RPi/RPi2 is sadly mediocre only, compared to say an Intel desktop board. I had to ressort to the dwc_otg.fiq_fsm_mask=0xF cmdline.txt hack to get a H264 720p stream at around 10 Mbps working even somewhat reliably. Lots of "FIQ reported NYET. Data may have been lost." before. And even now, every minute or half there is a serious dropout with blocky video and brief pause in audio. 30 minutes into viewing, audio/video is getting pretty skippy to the point where Kodi tries to resample audio, producing squeaky voices.

- Latest vdr-addon Live-TV web interface on port 8008 crashes with segfault on browser connect.

- Quality 2A+ USB power supply is key and even more key is using a thick and short (0.5m) cable from the power supply to the RPi2.

- Snapshot 5.95.3 RPi2 OpenElec does not boot on my RPi2. I have a Hifiberry Digi+ and DS3231 RTC attached, maybe it does not like the new DTBs or those devices.

- If your zd1211rw stick is not recognized (no wlan0 showing up), be aware that new_id was changed in later kernels. The syntax with FFFFFFFF's no longer works. I got mine working using this:

# cat zd1211rw.rules
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0ace", ATTRS{idProduct}=="a215", RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 0ace a215 0 0586 3413 > /sys/bus/usb/drivers/zd1211rw/new_id'"

Coming from Windows with MPC-HC, external Lavfilters (with dtsdecoder.dll) and DVBviewer/vPlug, I may have expected a bit too much of this box.

I'll revisit in a couple of months to check you guys out again. Thanks!