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I appear to be missing something here. I've installed Kodi onto a HTPC with Win7 and it's terrible to use. I've looked at countless videos and tutorials on YouTube about installing add ons for TV and Movies and almost all of them don't work completely. With regards to the Live TV i have over 8000 channels which are in a completely random mess where only basic channels like BBC work properly. With the amount of people going on about XBMC i'm really struggling to see what's so good about it!
 
SimonT said:
I appear to be missing something here. I've installed Kodi onto a HTPC with Win7 and it's terrible to use. I've looked at countless videos and tutorials on YouTube about installing add ons for TV and Movies and almost all of them don't work completely. With regards to the Live TV i have over 8000 channels which are in a completely random mess where only basic channels like BBC work properly. With the amount of people going on about XBMC i'm really struggling to see what's so good about it!
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Live TV is a recent addition and is completely dependant on the backend that you use. XBMC merely "displays" whatever the backend hands it.

XBMC (at least for me) is more about viewing local content than anything else. I don't use any add-ons as I have a 16TB NAS with all my movies and tv shows on it. This is where Kodi excels.

In short, I guess it depends how you use it as to which direction your experience goes.
 
Mediaportal is still king when it comes to TV, get the sky epg plugin and it will sort the channels out into groups then tell it to hide the encrypted channels.
 
SimonT said:
I appear to be missing something here. I've installed Kodi onto a HTPC with Win7 and it's terrible to use. I've looked at countless videos and tutorials on YouTube about installing add ons for TV and Movies and almost all of them don't work completely. With regards to the Live TV i have over 8000 channels which are in a completely random mess where only basic channels like BBC work properly. With the amount of people going on about XBMC i'm really struggling to see what's so good about it!
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My LiveTV experience is pretty good, but took a while to set up and get it how I like it. By the way you wrote that post it sounds like your using some sort of IPTV channel list with loads of rubbish in there.

If you're looking for plugins that stream online content (like netflix but less legitimate) then you're correct in that a lot of them don't work correctly, or stop working (shut down) after a period.


Like ubern00b states above, if you treat it as a local media player its great. Anything else you can do via plugins for online content is a bonus.
 
Well didn't take me long, all parts ordered to build my HTPC, should arrive Wednesday, once its all setup and working the 2TB Sky box will be getting punted to foot some of the bill, cancelled the subscription last night.

Have gone for:

Core I3-4160 Haswell
120GB Kingston V300 SSD (for OS, Kodi etc)
2TB WD HDD (for Satellite Recording and other bits and bobs)
8GB Corsair 1600MHz RAM
TBS 6982 Dual Satellite HD Low-profile PCIe TV Tuner Card DVB-S2
Silverstone ML06B Mini ITX Case

Looking forward to shedding the Sky bill, the more I have thought about it the more I can't believe I didn't get rid of it years ago, can't remember the last time I used anything that wasn't on Freeview.
 
@JonnyCasino

Have a similar setup with a PCIe DVB-S2 card and I love the ML06B case, basically I packed in a couple of hardrives and the OS SSD in where the PSU should have gone and stuck with the nano PSU
 
One last thing I want to do with my RPi Kodi install. Change what the 4 colour buttons do on my TV remote.

I want..

Red = Info
Green = Subtitle toggle
Yellow = Context menu
Blue = Watched status toggle

I did try the addon that can do it, but couldn't find the exact behaviour that I wanted..
 
Subliminal Aura said:
@JonnyCasino

Have a similar setup with a PCIe DVB-S2 card and I love the ML06B case, basically I packed in a couple of hardrives and the OS SSD in where the PSU should have gone and stuck with the nano PSU
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Nice, looking forward to building it haven't put a PC together in about 8 years, I have all my Media on a 8TB Synology NAS, so should be fine with the one HDD for recording and other bits and pieces.

The only bit I haven't started looking up yet is setting up the Freesat Live TV, EPG etc
 
bledd. said:
One last thing I want to do with my RPi Kodi install. Change what the 4 colour buttons do on my TV remote.

I want..

Red = Info
Green = Subtitle toggle
Yellow = Context menu
Blue = Watched status toggle

I did try the addon that can do it, but couldn't find the exact behaviour that I wanted..
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You just need to edit remote.xml. Here is mine:

<keymap>
<global>
<remote>
<red>XBMC.ActivateWindow(Home)</red>
<green>Info</green>
<yellow>OSD</yellow>
<blue>ToggleWatched</blue>
<title>PreviousMenu</title><!-- Return -->
<guide>ContextMenu</guide>
</remote>
</global>
<FullscreenVideo>
<remote>
<blue>ShowSubtitles</blue>
</remote>
</FullscreenVideo>
</keymap>

Note some things might need a name change for kodi
 
Will be interested to see how the TBS 6982 gets on, looking to get one for my htpc and get rid of my Humax box which just keeps crashing, doing my head in!
 
LizardKing said:
Mediaportal is still king when it comes to TV, get the sky epg plugin and it will sort the channels out into groups then tell it to hide the encrypted channels.
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That's an interesting comment, I'm a long time XBMC user and never heard of media portal. I am about to upgrade from 13.1 to 14 on my main frontend/backend which has TV tuners in it, but may try Mediaportal out for size, I seem to remember XBMC has MediaPortal PVR plugins, but I may be making that up!
 
Evening all :)

New to XBMC and finally got round to buying a Raspberry PI and installed OpenElec on it with no difficulties, all seems good so far but I am completely stuffed when it comes to repositories and add ons? I don't know where to look for any good sources and everything on Google seems to be out of date and no longer available. I'm just after the must haves for movies, TV shows and sports. Can anyone help?

Email in trust if necessary, would be much appreciated. :)
 
There's a website which isn't very hard to find, because basically you want add ons for your TV, you don't have to be a *genesis to find it.

On this add on, there is a programme which will let you browse pretty much every add on you'll need, I only use 1, because it's brilliant for TV shows and Movies. Google is very much your friend, and it's easy to find.

*clue
 
How does netflix and spotify work on Kodi now?

My nephew (the wee **********) smashed my laptop screen so I'm thinking I'll just turn it into a media player. I use spotify a lot and it would be nice if I didn't have to drag out my laptop to alt/tab everytime.

I can use my phone to control spotify remotely, so I imagine that aslong as it's running in the background it would work the same? Has anyone tried this before?
 
Built my HTPC last night, really like the size of the case, the fan I got is near silent.

The TBS 6982 was setup with MediaPortal within about 10 minutes and working brilliantly, just need to setup the XBMC Media Portal addon so I can run everything through Kodi, the SSD is the first time I have used an SSD for years in a windows computer (I have a Macboor Air and iMac for work / home use nowadays), and forgot how quickly you can have windows booting, the animation didn't even get a chance to play :)

If anyone else is running Live TV through Kodi another way I'm interested to hear about it but so far the MediaPortal setup looks good, will get some images of everything once I'm done.
 
Begbie said:
How does netflix and spotify work on Kodi now?

My nephew (the wee **********) smashed my laptop screen so I'm thinking I'll just turn it into a media player. I use spotify a lot and it would be nice if I didn't have to drag out my laptop to alt/tab everytime.

I can use my phone to control spotify remotely, so I imagine that aslong as it's running in the background it would work the same? Has anyone tried this before?
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Spotify works well using SpotiMC.
Netflix has NetfliXBMC, but I hear that it can be flakey, at best.
 
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