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Kodi, TVH OpenELEC etc.

Added by Tom Johnson almost 10 years ago

Posted this over in the Kodi forum, but also wanted to post here.

After getting my OpenELEC RPi working with TVheadend, I had a thought about how this works and just wanted clarification.

As I understand it, Kodi is pretty much a standalone program. TVheadend allows you to connect Live TV to a Kodi system. So, as I see it I can have a basic Linux box with TVheadend installed on it without Kodi and still be able to stream live TV, correct? I would simply configure OpenELEC to connect to the server just like I do now but instead of it being a Kodi server, it's just a Linux box, right?

Hope I explained this right. I know when I had Plex, I had to have Plex server in the backend and then I could have different clients as the front end. I don't think Kodi works like that. I think Kodi is a stand alone app that allows you to connect to different shared sources, such as TVheadend or a SMB share for media.

Correct me if I am wrong.


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RE: Kodi, TVH OpenELEC etc. - Added by Robert Cameron almost 10 years ago

That is correct (and similar to my setup). I have a small NUC-type computer that runs TVH. It records to a NFS mount on a 6TB NAS. The live feeds are served to other computers in the house that run Kodi and pvr.hts, but the computer running TVH does not have Kodi (or even X/Wayland) installed at all.

RE: Kodi, TVH OpenELEC etc. - Added by Tom Johnson almost 10 years ago

Killer! I'm looking to use OpenMediaVault as my NAS and installing TVheadend on it (now that I know how it works). This way I have a small footprint server that I can store local media on as well as serve up Live TV. Need to buy a couple more RPi's.

Quick question though...which front end client works best with RPi?

RE: Kodi, TVH OpenELEC etc. - Added by A L over 9 years ago

Robert Cameron wrote:

That is correct (and similar to my setup). I have a small NUC-type computer that runs TVH. It records to a NFS mount on a 6TB NAS. The live feeds are served to other computers in the house that run Kodi and pvr.hts, but the computer running TVH does not have Kodi (or even X/Wayland) installed at all.

Could you possibly confirm what your running TVH on (i.e. on your "small NUC-type computer)?

Is there any reason why you do not have TVH running directly on your NAS?

RE: Kodi, TVH OpenELEC etc. - Added by Robert Cameron over 9 years ago

My "NUC" is a Gigabyte Brix with a small i3 processor. The reason it runs TVH and not my NAS is because the NAS is arm-based, and I don't really care to maintain a toolchain to build packages for it. I run a custom build of TVH that allows me to use the HDHomeRun support to tune my CableCARD-based Primes, which reduces continuity errors and makes for reliable recordings. I also use Schedules Direct's JSON service, and the XMLTV grabber requires some binary libraries which are not easily found or compiled for the NAS.

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