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Takes me to navigate around this little Beelink, bit of a learning curve!
Does anyone know if there is a way to add a sort of 'TV Guide' like you get on Sky to show what's available to view? Or is that not possible?
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Does anyone use XBMC for watching TV via a tuner? What is the experience like now, and what backkend do you use?
I currently use MediaPortal with an ArgusTV backend and would like to run Kodi but the live TV was not up to par last time I checked.
I currently use MediaPortal with an ArgusTV backend and would like to run Kodi but the live TV was not up to par last time I checked.
I do, I'm using MythTV on a linux box with 2 dual tuners and it works beautifully.
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Thnansk, good to hear. Can you set recording schedules from the UI now eg. record this prograam anytiime on this channel?
I'm fairly sure you can but I just use Mythweb (MythTV's browser admin page) to do mine as I'm usually on my laptop in the living room anyway.
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Thanks. I'll install it and have a go. I would be happy with a web interface too, but I have the wife to consider
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Another daft question from me. My Sky+ HD has been playing up and constantly dropping signal (I think we need the dish moved to the side of the house as a tree in the garden seems to be causing issues). So fired up the trusty Beelink box and had a hunt for the Euro games and found plenty streams on ITV1 AND ITV4. But what I can never find is anything streamed in HD? It's perfectly watchable but is there any way to get HD streams for live footy etc?
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Theres plenty out there if you have an Android box. look around facebook you can get subs that don't cost much for sports HD. But be careful some are better then others
Does anyone know of a way to start Kodi at the same time i use an activity on a harmony remote to switch the TV on, change inputs etc? It's on a windows 10 machine that's always on and just needs kodi started using a harmony smart remote.
Edit - i seem to have got it to work by adding a step having it use # as a shortcut on the PC to launch it and adding it as a step in the startup sequence but i'd have preferred to add a step using something that would never actually get used on the PC, like ctrl + alt + 1 or something, unfortunately i cant see a way to get the remote to send those keypresses though.
Edit2 - turns out that if you use the Alt+Numpad5 version of # it doesn't interfere with the normal keyboard press so all is good
Edit - i seem to have got it to work by adding a step having it use # as a shortcut on the PC to launch it and adding it as a step in the startup sequence but i'd have preferred to add a step using something that would never actually get used on the PC, like ctrl + alt + 1 or something, unfortunately i cant see a way to get the remote to send those keypresses though.
Edit2 - turns out that if you use the Alt+Numpad5 version of # it doesn't interfere with the normal keyboard press so all is good
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RPI 3 will do for her that's cheap and cheerful and can do much more with them
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Would be a 4K Amazon Fire tv for me personally, especially when they're on offer and reduced to £65
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Definitely, best all in one solution.
Was in the same boat and have just switched from my old RaspberryPi to an ODroid C2, has good support for Libreelec and plays the HEVC 265 codec perfectly, I believe can do 4k as well but not looked in to that yet.
Soldato
Can you install Kodi on a chromecast or is it only possible to cast from a phone/pc to the tv?
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Lads any recommendations for a skin? Just picked up a shield TV so want to put it to good use. Used to like the mq5 skin. Is this still the best around?
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Cool will give it a go.