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2016-12-29, 16:02
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-29, 16:04 by Spirou.)
Ok, thanks for clarifying. I was hoping to create a general timer rule searching for a specific title over all channels, like I can do from the guide with "Find similar". Couldn't that ("find similar") be triggered on a regular base to create timers from kodi instead of passing the task to the pvr directly?
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2016-12-29, 19:04
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-29, 19:05 by ksooo.)
You can do this yourself. Use "find similar" and use the context menu of any of the found events to "record" what is of interest for you.
But please note that the backend is possibly able to find events not available in Kodi, for instance, because you set the days for epg events to fetch from the backend to only 3 days. "find similar" only finds what's available to Kodi locally.
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2016-12-30, 03:52
(This post was last modified: 2016-12-30, 03:53 by Spirou.)
Yes, I am using it already that way. Sometimes I miss a program and it is re-broadcasted on another channel. With "find similar" I can easily spot the next broadcast and schedule it for recording.
As in this case, the vdr backend does not seem to be able to search all channels for a given program/title I had hoped one could trigger "find similar" on a recurring schedule (e.g. once EPG has been updated) and then automatically add a new timer for any matching event.
Maybe. if "any channel" cannot be implemented, it would be possible to select multiple channels from the channel list to create one or multiple EPG based timer rules?
Anyway, thanks a lot for looking into this.
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2017-01-05, 18:51
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-05, 18:59 by yumar.)
Hello FernetMenta,
thanks for the great work on integrating Kodi with vdr. EPG search timer was what I was waiting for.
Unfortunately I can't get them to work.
I'm using vdr-2.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 as backend and updated it with version 1.5.2 of the vdr-plugin-vnsiserver from your git repo.
Jan 5 16:56:51 rotsrv1 vdr: [23005] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-vnsiserver.so.2.2.0
Jan 5 16:56:51 rotsrv1 vdr: [23005] initializing plugin: vnsiserver (1.5.2): VDR-Network-Streaming-Interface (VNSI) Server
Jan 5 16:56:51 rotsrv1 vdr: [23005] starting plugin: vnsiserver
Jan 5 16:56:51 rotsrv1 vdr: [23005] VNSI: Starting vnsi server at port=34890
As frontend I'm using the latest LibreELEC 7.09.010 Alpha which contains Kodi v17-beta7. The Add-on VDR VNSI Client is reported as 2.6.11.
Live-TV works and I can see all the timers created by search timer rules I've setup using the vdradmin-am webinterface directly on the server.
But the timer rules are not shown in the Kodi frontend and it seems I can't add a new search rule either.
The "Add timer" dialog below "Timer rules" looks exactly like the dialog below "Timers". No way to enter a search string or anything.
When trying to add a timer fom the EPG I get a "Timer rule creation failed. The PVR add-on does not support a suitable timer rule type." error message.
Is there something I am missing?
Regards
yumar
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2017-01-05, 20:08
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-05, 20:13 by yumar.)
Too bad... is there a reason to base this on 2.3.1?
Since 2.3.1 is not really that common supporting 2.2.0 would make this useful to a lot more people.
Never compiled vdr myself, now I need to figure out how to do that.
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btw: 2.6.14 is currently the version supposed to be used with Krypton.
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Do I need the epgsearch plugin for 2.3.1?
Trying to compile it I get an error
*** Plugin epgsearch:
grep: /opt/source/vdr-2.3.1/PLUGINS/src/epgsearch/Makefile: Ist kein Verzeichnis
ERROR: plugin epgsearch doesn't honor APIVERSION - not compiled!
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epgsearch plugin is outdated and not maintained anymore. therefore I decided to implement required functions in vnsiserver directly.
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2017-01-05, 23:24
(This post was last modified: 2017-01-05, 23:24 by hoppel118.)
Which plugins do we need to install for vdr 2.3.1 at least to get the full pvr function of kodi krypton?
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Just install the vdr-vnsiserver plugin (latest release 1.5.2) and you're good. That's all you need for kodi.
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Fine. Do you know, if the live plugin is compatible?
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