[Jeroen]

I was wondering if the following would be possible down the line.

I do not own a TV Tuner card, and I have no need for one either. However I want my skin to be as complete as possible and support all features XBMC offers.

Would it be feasible to add a way for skinners to look at the EPG without actually using a tuner card by displaying a fake listing or something along those lines? Maybe by a setting in advancedsettings.xml? Or by starting XBMC with a startup parameter? I'm just throwing stuff out there, I have no idea if that makes sense at all

Skinning the various dialogs related to the pvr doesn't seem to be a problem, but the PVR seems a bit too complex to skin "blind"

Some sort of solution would be much appreciated.

Greetings,
Jeroen

[jmarshall]

Well, to be fair it hasn't been looked at by most of the team, so most of us don't know how good the UI is or whether we need something a little more streamlined, so I suspect that there's going to be changes after it moves into SVN anyway

And yes, we'll definitely want a way to be able to skin it (or use it generally) without PVR capability hooked up as not all of us have PVR stuff anyway - some sort of dummy PVR addon for instance that populated things with dummy data would do the trick.

Cheers,
Jonathan

[Jezz_X]

I have a feeling that unfortunately its going to be a little more complicated than that
The best Idea I've had so far is to find someone who will let you remotely connect to a server they have running already.

The other option is go out a buy a really cheap usb tuner and use that, once you get it working its not that hard

Or maybe find someone with a tuner to skin it for you with guidance

But I totally agree its a pain to get it working without one

[EqUiNoX]

Maybe a 3rd option, im sure stuff like virtual tv tuners exist or some kind of software that for example windows media centre thinks is a tuner. How ever not sure if it will be the same case for XBMC.

[Jeroen]

Hmm did a quick search on it and there seems to be stuff like that indeed. I'll look into it, thanks