[jyavenard]

Hi.

Just installed Kodi on a Fire TV 4K ; all working well when it comes to browser recordings, watch one, create a new recordings etc.
But no go with LiveTV.

Playback starts, I have a picture showing and a tiny bit of audio and then it exists.

I tried running Kodi on a macOS device and I see the exact same behaviour.

It's a rather old backend installation (mythtv 29) but upgrading that would be a headache and I haven't tinkered with mythTV in a while.

In the Kodi logs I see no particular errors:
https://paste.kodi.tv/ozuboxeval.kodi
But I'm no expert in Kodi, I've virtually only installed it less than one hour ago.


On the mythtv backend I see nothing indicating an error, just that a new frontend connected, a recording was started and then got immediately closed.
https://paste.kodi.tv/yifayoworo
(now for mythtv however I do know the backend code pretty well and it's definitely the frontend that disconnect, not the backend kicking it out).

Sometimes in Kodi logs I do see this line:

2021-08-08 23:46:43.665 T:33144 ERROR <general>: SignalQuality: Add-on 'MythTV (mediaserver.surrey1.avenard.org):http://192.168.10.14:6544' returned an error: rejected by the backend

but there's nothing indicating as such on the mythtv side, just that the client (kodi) disconnected.

If I start a recording of the channel I'm trying to watch, I can immediately start watching that recording.

Just LiveTV gives this behaviour

Now this is a log when watching LiveTV with a real mythfrontend
https://paste.kodi.tv/esodezipac

We can see that there's a few connection/disconnection happening before playback starts, which is curious.

Any ideas?

Am I using a too old version of mythtv-backend?

[stuckinthehome]

Your backend isn't too old. Mine is older since the driver for my OTA card will only work on an older release of Ubuntu and I don't have any issues. Are you using the Mythtv PVR Client. Make sure in the settings that you have enable livetv set to on.

[jyavenard]

Your backend isn't too old. Mine is older since the driver for my OTA card will only work on an older release of Ubuntu and I don't have any issues. Are you using the Mythtv PVR Client. Make sure in the settings that you have enable livetv set to on.

I updated to 31 and the issue remains the same.

What Live TV settings are you referring to? I'm not aware of such option existing.

LiveTV works with the MythTV frontend android app and Leanfront (though it takes over 15s for playback to start, but this is documented).

I like the interface of Kodi plugin much better than leanfront, and playback performance of the MythTV frontend isn't particularly optimum, lots of stuttering there.

[stuckinthehome]

Your backend isn't too old. Mine is older since the driver for my OTA card will only work on an older release of Ubuntu and I don't have any issues. Are you using the Mythtv PVR Client. Make sure in the settings that you have enable livetv set to on.

I updated to 31 and the issue remains the same.

What Live TV settings are you referring to? I'm not aware of such option existing.

LiveTV works with the MythTV frontend android app and Leanfront (though it takes over 15s for playback to start, but this is documented).

I like the interface of Kodi plugin much better than leanfront, and playback performance of the MythTV frontend isn't particularly optimum, lots of stuttering there.

I had to install the MythTV PVR Client in order for Kodi to work with mythtv.

https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:MythTV_PVR_Client