As I said before - the problem is my tired old brain. I just tried it on my RPi4 setup and yup you are right.
I'm going to need to identify what's coming in on which frequency so I can test properly. At the moment I'm recording BBC1 & BBC2 but anything else I try I get recording conflict .
The RPi4 is running a TVHat
I think basically you are saying what I'm doing.
I don't use TVHeadend server on Windows because as far as I know it won't run. I just checked on line and foundSuccess! TVheadend on Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Note the last bit 
Thanks for that, its very interesting from a technical viewpoint, but as I said earlier replace channels with programmes. From an end user viewpoint with the TVHat I can only access one programme at a time, with the Huappage Dual tuner only two. It doesn't matter how many are multiplexed onto the same frequency. Now if I could get at them to record simultaneously that would be different.
I think its more a case of my tired old brain limiting things rather than CPU/HDD. Still its always interesting to learn new things.
Are there any links you can supply that tell me how to turn this "technically right" into something I can use?
if your tuner is up to it you can record BBC One HD, BBC Two HD, ITV HD, C4 HD and C5 HD simultaneously with just one tuner
I think we may have a communications breakdown. Does replacing channels with programmes alter the sense?
What OS do you run on the Dell?
LibreElec of course. Its one of the nightlys 2023-11-something. I got it working nicely and there doesn't seem to be anything I'm bothered about in the more recent builds to make me want to update.
One reason to stick with LibreElec is this forum - pretty good support
Thanks for the info but I'll leave the August tuner for the PC - it gives me the Hauppage Dual tuner on my Dell Optiplex/LibreElec/Kodi, a TVHat on a RPi4/LibreElec/Kodi and the August on Windows. That means I can record 4 channels simultaneously if I ever go so mad!
I am in the UK and do get Freeview off the Rumster Forest transmitter.
When I started recording/watching TV on computer I had an August T202 on an old Toshiba laptop. After I started using Kodi on an RPi3 I bought another RPi3 and added a TVHat to the second one. I switched to a Hauppauge WinTV DualHD TV Stick. The setup with 1 RPi3 running Kodi to watch DVDs, ripped DVDs and recorded TV and the other acting as a TVHeadend server worked well.
I then bought an RPi4 hoping I could go to a single machine - not to good if I tried recording 2 TV channels and watching from ripped DVD.
Currently I use a Dell Optiplex i5-6500 (second hand from Amazon) which runs Kodi and acts as the TVHeadend server - it works really well.
I also have Kodi and TVHat on the RPi4 in my "office" totally separate from the main system and that's OK.
You're probably right and I'll get round to checking at some point (probably the next time I spot something I want to record). I tested on my sichbopvr setup on a PC using an august adapter which Kodi doesn't recognise and its scan turned up CBeedbies and BBC 4 just with BBC 4 not active
It was BBC4 SD (old eyes not good enough for HD 
) but is was during the day not after 7pm. This "CBeebies uses the same space as BBC Four during the day " may well be the problem since, not having kids, I've removed CBeebies. I'll reenable and see what happens.
Its been a while since I wanted to record anything from BBC 4 but I did today and its vanished from TVHeadEnd on both my Dell Optiplex i5 with Haupage and my RPi4 with TV hat, but its still showing on my TV.
Other channels coming in on the same mux (Rumster Forest 522MHz) are still there. I can't find anything indicating that BBC4 is off the air or something has happened to it.
I'm in the process of trying to reinstall TVHeadEnd on the RPi4 to see if that cures it. Its stuck at 91% mapping the services at present.
Any suggestions as to other actions to try?
That looks like it
Block count: 1465130240
Reserved block count: 73256512
Yet another thing I didn't know about unix
I have a 6TB Seagate formatted to Ext4 connected to my LibreElec machine (Dell Optiplex i5) and a second one formatted to NTFS connected to my Windows laptop and used as a backup. As far as I can tell there are exactly the same files on both (I sync then regularly) but the Ext4 has c400GB less free space than the NTFS one.
Is this normal for an Ext4 drive? If not are there any tools to investigate the difference?
Wild guessing: check if there are any USB (boot) options
If the tablets are just booting into Windows I doubt it. I have a vague memory (probably wrong) that you only get multi-boot if in developer mode.
However, as a slightly heretical thought, if the Windows tablets are running OK under Windows can you not simply install Kodi on one of them. Not as good as running under LibreElec but might give you what you want.
I don't have any of those devices so I'm guessing. The Samsung A8 is running Android so totally different CPU and, looking at the download page, I can't see a download for Android.
The Windows machines (I'm assuming intel cpus) may need putting into developer mode so that you can install third party software that isn't on the MS store. For W10 this link should show you how to get to developer mode
https://www.howtogeek.com/292914/what-is-developer-mode-in-windows-10/
You can try searching for something similar for W8.1 or better still upgrade to W10
I bet it's only the buttons with TV AND Kodi functions, and you don't have any trouble with the color buttons, right?
I'm not sure what you mean by this. I haven't used the colour buttons - if I can't persuade my wife to use the mini keyboard getting her to remember what the colour buttons mean might be a bit difficult
If you really need a fix
Nah I'm good
I need a bit more help (knowing me probably a alot more help). I think I've done it correctly but I can't get Kodi to use the revised translation I've supplied.
I'm trying on my Windows PC to start with so I don't wreck my real Kodi installation.
I've edited AppData\Roaming\Kodi\addons\skin.experimental\language\resource.language.en_gb\strings.po
by copying a couple of items from C:\Program Files\Kodi\addons\resource.language.en_gb\resources\strings.po
#: xbmc/windows/GUIMediaWindow.cpp
#: xbmc/windows/GUIWindowFileManager.cpp
msgctxt "#14076"
msgid "Add to favourites"
msgstr ""
#: xbmc/windows/GUIMediaWindow.cpp
#: xbmc/windows/GUIWindowFileManager.cpp
msgctxt "#14077"
msgid "Remove from favourites"
msgstr ""
altered the msgstr to refer to Watching
but the context menu still refers to favourites
Thanks - that makes much more sense. I've downloaded the free version of poedit and am off to play.
Its only the two customised buttons on the remote and if I flip to TV and back to Kodi they're back again.
I'm quite happy with it working like this and after all the fun and games I had getting CEC to work on this box (buying the adapter & special CEC-less HDMI cable and switching the DVD recorder to SCART) I'm inclined to let well enough alone.
