(2018-10-26, 13:28)docwra Wrote: After a fair bit of testing, this works really well once I setup a static IP address using SSH to my raspberry3b+.
I do find channel switching a little slow compared to my old NUC but once the video starts its perfect.
Has anyone been able to get BBC 1 HD, TWO HD, ITV HD and Channel 4 HD EPG guides working? It seems to work out of the box for the other SD channels but I still have no EPG for the main UK HD Channels.
You need to enable the "Over-the-air UK : Freeview" grabber module in the EPG Grabber Modules config in the TV Headend web interface. By default it only installs the DVB EIT grabber - which only works for the SD channels (which use an open EPG), but not for the HD channels (that use a Freeview HD specific, proprietary, EPG)
Configuration->Channels/EPG->EPG Grabber Modules
Click on "Over-the-air UK:Freeview" (which is probably marked red), then in the right hand panel tick to enable it, and click save top left. The mark next to it should have turned green.
If you want accurate recordings then in the Recordings config tick the 'Use EPG Running state' or similar tick box and that will use the EIT p/f flags in the DVB stream to signal the start/end of recordings. The main broadcasters are good at triggering this accurately (it's controlled by their Playout area)
Configuration->Recording->Digital Video Recorder Profiles and it should open the default "pass" profile (which records with no processing - so identical quality to watching live). In the Parameters panel on the right you should see a tick box for 'Use EPG Running State' - which enables the EPG Now/Next (aka Present/Following) changes to trigger recordings.
If you want UK channel numbers in Kodi - then in Kodi go to PVR/Live TV in System settings, and enable 'Use channel numbers from backend' - otherwise Kodi will allocate its own numbers to each channel.
In the UK, by default, TV Headend correctly detects the "LCN" (i.e. logical/local channel number) for each service that Freeview allocate. You CAN override these numbers in the TV Headend configuration, and you can also disable channels should you wish. (If you want to avoid the Adult or Shopping channels clogging up your EPG in Kodi) I think you can do this either in the SERVICES config menu or the CHANNELs config menu.