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Really Stuck getting to work on android

Added by tv mad almost 10 years ago

Hi all
After reading around all over the www about tvh I'm totally stuck here goes,

My setup is android i9505 with kodi xbmc

My questions are do I need to have something setup on a PC to get this to work and how do I setup if no pc required?

Am a total noob when it comes to tvh setup but am familiar with kodi xbmc

cheers community


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RE: Really Stuck getting to work on android - Added by Prof Yaffle almost 10 years ago

tvheadend is 'back end' PVR software- XBMC/Kodi is 'front end'. Think of it as server and client.

You can theoretically run both on the same box, but it's more normal to run them on separate devices: one backend TV server with multiple front-end clients, for example.

I believe there have been ports of tvheadend to run on Android, but it's more normal to run it under Linux, either on a PC/server or on a NAS that also stores all of your recorded/ripped media (i.e. the Kodi library contents).

So... yes, you need a device to run tvheadend on; yes, you'll need hardware tuners to receive over-the-air (DVB-S/C/T) signals; yes, you might be able to run it on your Android device, but a Linux distro would be easier if you have the hardware; yes, you'll have to do some searching if you want to use Android as the server OS (it needs to support the tuners as well).

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