[OTADVRsRUS]

Hi there Kodi fans!

We're very excited to announce the release of the Tablo Add-On for Kodi.

About Tablo
For those of you not familiar with Tablo, we make a hardware DVR for Over-the-Air HDTV antennas: www.TabloTV.com.



Tablo connects your antenna to your router to enable you to discover, record and stream free broadcast TV. You can check out some setup diagrams and videos here: https://www.tablotv.com/how-tablo-works/



About the Add-On
The Tablo Add-On for KODI was designed to mirror our popular Roku app, offering playback of both live TV and recordings.

You can browse the Live TV grid guide for programs airing in the next 24 hours, or discover programming airing in the next 14 days using the TV shows, movies and sports screens.





You can also set recordings and view episode and series-level synopses.




It is not possible to edit the Tablo’s settings via KODI but, just like Roku, some basic details are available for your reference.



NOTE - It is also not possible to rewind live TV nor watch in-progress recordings due to the limitations of the integration.



Shut Up and Just Let me Download It
The Tablo Kodi Add-On is compatible with the latest Tablo firmware (2.2.10).

LINK TO OFFICIAL REPOSITORY (Jarvis & newer): http://addons.kodi.tv/show/script.tablo/
LINK TO ZIP (Isengard & older): https://github.com/Nuvyyo/script.tablo/a...gotham.zip



Why Don't You Have PVR Integration?
In order to provide the same beautiful interface experience our users enjoy via other apps, we chose not to integrate with Kodi's PVR functions.



Can I Tinker With It?
If you want to play with the code, head over to the Kodi thread on the Tablo Community, let us know and we'll get you hooked up with our developer program.


If you have any feedback or questions, let us know below or on the official thread on the Tablo Community! Thanks!

[hdmkv]

Used to have Tablo, but this is good news. Switched to TiVo OTA DVR since as lifetime is now included. Hard to beat for $299 when I got my 500GB version, or even with $399 1TB version now available.

Only things I didn't care with Tablo were slow-ish navigation and lack of DD5.1, and also that recordings are reencoded on the fly to MPEG4 (so no original MPEG2 streams).

But, having Kodi integration now gives Tablo at least one feature TiVo doesn't.

[nickr]

Nice to see the kodi support. If organisations like netflix got on board with kodi it really would be sweet.

Can i clarify though? This is ATSC only right? No DVB-T/S/C?

[OTADVRsRUS]

Can i clarify though? This is ATSC only right? No DVB-T/S/C?

That's correct. The tuner is ATSC and Tablo is available for customers in the US and Canada at the moment.

[nickr]

That's a pity.

[OTADVRsRUS]

@nickr - We know there's a HUGE market in the UK, OZ & NZ but we need to conquer North America first. We have several folks who'd volunteer to head up a 'down under' Tablo HQ so hopefully we can make it your way soon.

[Ruckus]

what are the plans for ISDB-T if any? its very difficult finding a tuner for it.

[OTADVRsRUS]

@Ruckus - Sorry, no plans for that in the near term. Although it would be awesome to have a reason to go to Costa Rica in the middle of the Canadian winter

[Ruckus]

its rainy season here right now so definitely wait until november for your visit, but by no means let that stop development of isdb-t

[natethomas]

Hi OTA, I'm curious if you have any plans for unencrypted US cable tv, or are you sticking to OTA? Also, since you auto-reencode, have you ever considered after recording episodes making it easy to list the episode in the Kodi library?

[OTADVRsRUS]

Hi OTA, I'm curious if you have any plans for unencrypted US cable tv, or are you sticking to OTA? Also, since you auto-reencode, have you ever considered after recording episodes making it easy to list the episode in the Kodi library?

We're purely focused on OTA at the moment.

Can you clarify what you mean by 'making it easy to list the episode in the Kodi library'? Do you mean downloading it for offline storage?

[Tobor]

I suspect he means renaming the recordings such as "Big Bang Theory -> S01E08 The Grasshopper Experiment.mp4". If the Tablo drive is added as a video source, the renamed recording will be integrated into the TV library.

tobor

[OTADVRsRUS]

@Torbor - The recordings remain on the Tablo drive and accessible within the Tablo Add-On.

If you want them to be accessible via other areas or have custom naming, one of the 3rd party download utilities available via our Community forum would do the trick.

[RockerC]

We're very excited to announce the release of the Tablo Add-On for Kodi.

That's nice, but are there any plans to develop a true "PVR addon for Kodi" that uses Kodi's native "PVR API" instead?

As asked here: http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=279870 and quoting myself from my reply there:

For an addon to be a true "PVR addon for Kodi" it needs to use Kodi's native "PVR API" and utilize Kodi's integrated GUI for Live TV and EPG

Read => http://kodi.wiki/view/PVR and => http://kodi.wiki/view/PVR_backend to understand that concept and the difference here.

Kodi's "PVR API" only also support addons written in C++ (or C, but not Python script or other scripts), at least for now, see:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=263952

You can checkout the full source code for all the existing PVR client addons here as examples:

https://github.com/kodi-pvr

I for one would love to have a Tablo PVR client addon for Kodi that using Kodi's native PVR API and therefor support Kodi skins.

This is the same issue we have with HDHomeRun which also doesn't have an addon for Kodi that uses Kodi's native PVR API, hence:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=246658

Could be that someone does the same thing for Tablo an creates a third-party PVR addon if Tablo first-party does not step-up themselves.

One quick solution could be to hire someone like zcsizmadia (Zoltan Csizmadia) who created the native PVR addon for HDHomeRun, or someone else familiar with writing native PVR addons for Kodi, and get him to do the initial porting of a similar native PVR addon for Tablo, then take over that yourselves and make it officially supported by your own developer for continuous development in-house.

Also, since you auto-reencode, have you ever considered after recording episodes making it easy to list the episode in the Kodi library?

If this addon was ported into a true native "PVR addon for Kodi" that uses Kodi's native "PVR API" instead then that would automatically solve that issue, as true PVR addons for Kodi add their content to Kodi's library,

[OTADVRsRUS]

We're very excited to announce the release of the Tablo Add-On for Kodi.

That's nice, but are there any plans to develop a true "PVR addon for Kodi" that uses Kodi's native "PVR API" instead?

We mentioned it in the post above:

Why Don't You Have PVR Integration?
In order to provide the same beautiful interface experience our users enjoy via other apps, we chose not to integrate with Kodi's PVR functions.

Long story short, one of Tablo's key strengths is to provide a beautiful interface and the integrated PVR function doesn't really allow for that. Other folks have created OTA PVR integrations so we plan to continue to focus on the pretty/easy and let others handle the more basic/integrated UIs.