XBMC TVHeadend HDHomerun questions

V Asbridge

Forgive me if these questions have been covered elsewhere, I searched but did not find.

I have 2 HDHomeruns from Silicon Dust (ATSC, USA). I am trying to replace WMC, which Microsloth is trying to kill.

Can someone point me to the following answers?

- Does TVHeadend support tuner LOCKING on the HDHomerun. Windows does, it sets a lock by IP on any tuner currently viewing or recording. Locking ensures multiple client don't kill each others recordings

- Does TVHeadend plan on supporting Series Recording? So I could, for example say "Record every episode of XX", or "Record new episodes of XX" This must be accessible from the XBMC GUI, (remote) not via a side app (like the web app)

It's a great piece of code, thanks, but until it can do series recording from inside XBMC it doesn't pass the spouse test.

Thanks in advance
HDMan

mpmc

V Asbridge wrote:
> Forgive me if these questions have been covered elsewhere, I searched but did not find.
>
> I have 2 HDHomeruns from Silicon Dust (ATSC, USA). I am trying to replace WMC, which Microsloth is trying to kill.
>
> Can someone point me to the following answers?
>

> - Does TVHeadend support tuner LOCKING on the HDHomerun. Windows does, it sets a lock by IP on any tuner currently viewing or recording. Locking ensures multiple client don't kill each others recordings.

If a tuner is in use by another subscription (viewing, recording or epggrab) it'll try to use the next free adapter. However it will cancel subscriptions based on configurable priorities as long as the recordings have higher priority they won't be cancelled, same goes for viewing subscriptions. The default is Recordings > Viewing > EPG.

> - Does TVHeadend plan on supporting Series Recording? So I could, for example say "Record every episode of XX", or "Record new episodes of XX" This must be accessible from the XBMC GUI, (remote) not via a side app (like the web app).

I know it is possible to set series recording via the webui and you can record programmes via Kodi but I'm not sure pvr.hts does series recording, I do know there was talk of it so it may have been added by now in newer versions but the version I use doesn't have it yet IIRC.

pvr.hts is written by the kodi guys mainly (there is some over spill) you could open an issue on github here if you like: https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts/issues.

>
> It's a great piece of code, thanks, but until it can do series recording from inside XBMC it doesn't pass the spouse test.
>
> Thanks in advance
> HDMan

mpmc

Just found this.. https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.hts/pull/38 might want to read through it :p

Edit, I just learned something new myself. It is possible to do series record via Kodi, you have to go into the guide and select Timer and vola!

E.g.

http://i.imgur.com/2Pb94vy.png?1

V Asbridge

Mark,

That's great! Can you do me one small favor and post the versions of all the parts you're running to see this menu above?

TVheadend version
Kodi version

pvr.hts version

Also, I'm encouraged by the way you try tuners and prioritize recordings, but I'm implying by your reply that your code does not understand locking / unlocking by IP address of the HDHomerun network based tuners. This is not a giant issue, because I can dedicate a couple of tuners to TVHeadend and leave two behind on the Windows WMC box, but it would be nicer if WMC and TVheadend could cooperate with the lock / unlock capabilities of the HDHomerun because then a user could expose all tuners to all systems and not worry about one system leaving the tuner locked. Again, not a big deal.

mpmc

V Asbridge wrote:
> Mark,
>
> That's great! Can you do me one small favor and post the versions of all the parts you're running to see this menu above?
>
> TVheadend version
usually git master..
> Kodi version
Nightly / unstable
> pvr.hts version
Whatever version comes with Kodi. The Timer menu has been there a while though from the looks of it.
>

> Also, I'm encouraged by the way you try tuners and prioritize recordings, but I'm implying by your reply that your code does not understand locking / unlocking by IP address of the HDHomerun network based tuners.

I don't have a HDHR but most tuners don't drop active sessions just to start a new one for a different user..

This is not a giant issue, because I can dedicate a couple of tuners to TVHeadend and leave two behind on the Windows WMC box, but it would be nicer if WMC and TVheadend could cooperate with the lock / unlock capabilities of the HDHomerun because then a user could expose all tuners to all systems and not worry about one system leaving the tuner locked. Again, not a big deal.

All I can suggest is that you try WMC and Tvheadend together with your HDHR and see what happens..