*** Official Kodi (née XBMC) Thread ***

I was the same mate, jumped in with the rpi3 and haven't looked back.
Just looking for something with a little more grunt now.
 
IainR said:
I was the same mate, jumped in with the rpi3 and haven't looked back.
Just looking for something with a little more grunt now.
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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?
 
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.
 
Baboonanza said:
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.
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I do, I'm using MythTV on a linux box with 2 dual tuners and it works beautifully.
 
Baboonanza said:
Thnansk, good to hear. Can you set recording schedules from the UI now eg. record this prograam anytiime on this channel?
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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.
 
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?
 
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 :)
 
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Can I ask what the current recommended box for kodi is, my daughter has a non smart tv and is looking to try kodi and I am lost at what to tell her to get cheap and cheerful

Thanks
 
IainR said:
I was the same mate, jumped in with the rpi3 and haven't looked back.
Just looking for something with a little more grunt now.
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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.
 
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