[ksooo]

Why does Kodi shit itself so badly when it comes to Live TV issues? For software that otherwise works brilliantly I keep having to tediously work Kodi through unshitting itself when it comes to Live TV problems.

This is across various add ons, backends, varieties, versions of Kodi. It's not one specific issue. It's Kodi. I've had it on OSMC, Librelec & Linux.

By shitting itself I mean a few things. Kodi crashes when enabling and disabling PVR add ons (addons restart are required for config changes but Kodi can't handle it, why was the option to disable Live TV removed?). One PVR not starting correctly (even with something like a server IP change) stops the other correctly configured addons being accessed via Live TV, just says PVR Manager is starting. This is crazy. Another issue is that Kodi can't reset TV data when a PVR hasn't started correctly, stalls at 10%, yet another reboot scenario. You can't even gracefully disable TV anymore while you change PVR add on settings or change backends/addons. Also, there is no error reporting on screen. Eg when the Kodi log gives you a 401 on an IPTV add on why not tell the user that on screen?

Again, this is not a criticism of Kodi as such. I'm not ungrateful and I do donate. Kodi works flawlessly for me except when it comes to handling even small issues with Live TV. Which is why this is so frustrating. Is this a general experience, are there changes coming or am I just unlucky?

Thanks.

We are constantly working on improving PVR. For more than three years I was basically the only Kodi PVR core developer and I spend hundreds of hours of my free time to make Kodi PVR better. Sorry, but I don't have more time!

Assuming you are talking about v17 I suggest to give v18 a try. Though not final yet, it runs very stable for many people and PVR was greatly improved. But please do not expect it to be 'perfect'. There is still some work to do...

Fort instance, I fixed many things in the area of enabling/disabling add-ons and support for simultaneous use of multiple pvr add-ons was improved and fixed.

BTW: I understand that error handling is important, but why don't you just try to get a stable setup as a "workaround" for the shitty error handling you encounter?