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XBMC comes to AndroidXBMC comes to AndroidPosted Jan 10, 2013 15:56 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501)Parent article: XBMC comes to Android
Does it do PVR? I like XBMC, but the thing keeping me using mythtv on main machine is getting over the air TV as well as stuff off the internet. OK, I could have a separate myth backend - but it shouldn't need two computers and two software systems to receive/watch TV. I've been waiting for XBMC-PVR for my ARM hardware (I did look at building it myself, but the monstrous build-deps list scared me off for the time being!). So does this Android version have the PVR features? I suspect not.
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XBMC comes to Android Posted Jan 11, 2013 0:28 UTC (Fri) by nickbp (subscriber, #63605) [Link]
XBMC 12 brings PVR frontend support for various backends.
XBMC comes to Android Posted Jan 11, 2013 0:57 UTC (Fri) by n8willis (editor, #43041) [Link]
Yes and no. Or sort of. There is support for generic PVR front-endedness -- a different add-on than the preceding MythBox add-on, which only browsed Recorded Programs. Though like I mentioned, it's a couple of releases behind MythTV (and since Myth changes its db format regularly, that's a serious incompatibility (though ultimately that's MythTV's fault, since the way it is designed requires all front-ends to open a live MySQL connection to the back-end database....)).
Anyway, the thing about the new XBMC PVR functionality is that it is front-end stuff only. It does have an EPG and a UI for scheduling and managing record rules, but it requires a separate back end, and on Linux that means, yep, MythTV. Ans as you're no doubt aware, MythTV is so screwy to configure that any change to ditch part of it is a welcome opportunity, but the back-end config is probably more convoluted than the front end, so this is just a partial fix.
Maybe someday, though....
XBMC comes to Android Posted Jan 11, 2013 1:00 UTC (Fri) by grantma (subscriber, #5225) [Link]
Android RC3 build includes cmyth PVY client which works on MythTV 0.26.
Am I going to Y E A H!
XBMC comes to Android Posted Jan 11, 2013 12:22 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]
OK. Nice. That's definitely progress.
MythTV's design choice requiring version sync across all clients/backend does indeed turn out to have been an unhelpful one, but I guess that wasn't obvious when they started.
There are other PVR backends are there not? Such as 'DVR' and I see 'TVHeadend' on the myth wiki. I've not tried either of these but they are probably easier to configure than mythtv :-) The backend when doing digital recording from USB is pretty simple: select channel and record stream at specified time, keep and expose a list, optionally run transcode and ad-remove processes. It's rather more fiddly with analogue TV cards. Most of the hard bit (UI, display technologies) seems to me to be in the front end. Hmm. I suppose the EPG database has to be in the back-end if delivered over the air. That complicates matters.
XBMC comes to Android Posted Feb 14, 2013 8:50 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link]
It took me literally 10 minutes to insert an old DVB-T USB stick in one of my AppleTV's running OpenELEC, install the tvheadend service addon, scan and configure the channels through the tvheadend web interface (automatic) and install the tvheadend client addon on both devices and point it to this AppleTV.
In 10 minutes I could watch DVB-T channels (TV and radio) on both boxes, read EPG information and schedule recordings. No reboot, no command line fiddling, no prior knowledge needed. And with this information, maybe you can do it in 5 minutes :-)
BTW I never heard of tvheadend before, but it looks like a great piece of software.
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