OpenElec setup

Henk de Vries

Hello all,

I'm new to Tvheadend, so perhaps I'm asking something very obvious here, but here it goes:

I'm running OpenELEC on my ASRock ION 330HT, and I want to use this for watching TV also. I've installed the Tvheadend and oscam-addons, but what's next? I don't see any options in the menu that indicate watching live-tv or anything. I'm guessing I need another addon for this, but I don't know which one...

Does anybody have this same setup as me? Perhaps he/she could be so kind as to give me a few hints or tips?

Thank you!

Alex .

Hoi Henk,

You are being a bit unclear about your problem:

> I don't see any options in the menu that indicate watching live-tv or anything. I'm guessing I need another addon for this, but I don't know which one...

I asume this is in XBMC. Indeed you should specifically activate the tv-plugin under the settings in xbmc.

However, you first need to configure tvheadend. I guess you should go to:

http://192.168.0.y:9981

Where 192.168.0.y is the IP-adress of your ASRock ION 330HT.

Then you should be greeted by the tvheadend-webpage. From there you can configure tvheadend as described elsewhere on this page.

Once tvheadend works, you can use XBMC to watch tv ( using tvheadend).

Hope this gives some pointers in the right direction,

Alex.

Henk de Vries

Hi Alex,

Thanks for the reply! am indeed referring to XBMC in my question. I'm completely new as I said before, so that's probably why I didn't state my question clearly. I was expecting to get a new option in the home-screen of XBMC, next to the existing ones like "Weather", "Videos", "Music", etcetera, somethin like "Live TV" or something.

I just disconnected my HTPC so I can't test anything right now (I'm moving in a couple of weeks, so I'm packing everything), but I'm sure I will refer to your tips again after I've settled in!

Thanks for the pointers!

Henk.

Alex .

Henk de Vries wrote:

> I was expecting to get a new option in the home-screen of XBMC, next to the existing ones like "Weather", "Videos", "Music", etcetera, somethin like "Live TV" or something.

It will appear as an option after you have enabled live tv in XBMC:
Go to System , Settings. There should be an option "live tv" ( next to appearence, video etc ). In the Live TV submenu, the you can activate "life tv".
However, you first need to active the PVR-addon for tvheadend ( available from the addon-menu).

( I am not sure how this is in open elec, but this is how it is in the "regular" version of XBMC.)

This is only the XBMC-part, which only makes sense once you have tvheadend running (as described in the earlier post).

Hope this helps once you have your mediacenter unpacked again and you can try :-)

Alex.

PS: I just found this XBMC/PVR-tutorial on the xbmc-wiki which explains the process step by step.
http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=PVR

Wouter Rijkhoff

There is a TVheadend process Add-On and an TVheadend PVR Add-On. I think he only installed the last one and forgot the first one.