[ablack42]

I've been working on my own add-on for HDHR (not my purpose for posting - not an advertisement!) and have found that Silicondust's statement about 2 weeks of guide data for subscribers is misleading. The standard bulk-download guide data only has about 4 hours worth of information in it, this is what you're seeing in Kodi. You can also get guide data per channel, which gives you closer to 8-10 hours worth of information, but at the cost of having to sit there and loop over potentially hundreds of channels and slam your network while doing it.

I believe their statement about 2 weeks of guide data relates to an ability to ask the backend for all airings of a specific SERIES. In that case you do get data that goes out about that far into the future. Think about how the HDHomeRun VIEW app works; when you use their in-app "EPG", you can only tab out a few hours per channel. When you look at a series recording rule, you see about 2 weeks or so worth of episodes. This methodology seems to be what they developed their backend services to support.

When coding for a regular grid-style EPG, you would need to somehow generate a list of every series on every channel and go completely bonkers against the backend to generate a full 2 weeks of EPG data. Not pretty and would probably end up being a nearly constant operation, by the time it was all downloaded and normalized and added to the Kodi EPG, it would likely be about time for Kodi to come asking for more!

Unfortunately, getting Silicondust to deliver more guide data with the bulk data request would be the simplest way to solve it for everyone.

Oh yeah -- accessing HDHR DVR recordings would require the PVR Client to work with the HDHomeRun RECORD engine, which not everyone has, but programmatically wasn't difficult. I don't think this is within the scope the author of this PVR client had in mind, but I certainly cannot speak for him/her

I get the EPG stuff. I'm not sure how HDHR does it vs WMC as I'm not a programmer by trade. It seems to be some sort of caching on the WMC side of things that krusty's app is able to utilize. I think the biggest feature gap right now is interfacing with the HDHR recording engine. I don't even need to be able to setup recordings. I just need the ability to play them through the PVR addon.

I understand that it is still in beta on HDHR's end but it would be helpful in my conversion away from needing a WMC htpc that is basically just a DVR and streamer.