Posts by LybsterKodi

    Naturally I can no longer find the web page that told me it would switch between freely & aerial depending on stream / signal quality. It didn't really make sense when I read it anyway.

    Overall it seems a good way to track what people are watching. In my case it will get very confused. I record a fair number of films that the first 5 minutes of convince me not to watch the remainder.

    From what I can read on the internet I can't quite figure it out. On the face of it it looks similar to the Plus 1 or various catch up services but incorporating live TV as well. Firstly it looks as though you have to log on to watch anything (some of the hubs are like that now and maybe the TV will remember but I don't know about Kodi or TVH) but it looks as though the stream can switch between internet & antenna depending on the existence of the internet connection.

    Very confusing

    Yesterday I started thinking about buying a new TV (my old Panasonic is no longer supported on TV Hub) went to currys.co.uk & Amazon to see what was on offer and found a lot now offered Freely rather than Freeview.

    Anyone any idea how this will work with LibreElec/Kodi/TVHeadend?

    I found out that my little iPazzport objects to being dropped on a hard floor, i fact it objected so much I need a new one. Naturally the nmodel I have is no longer made. I contacted iPazzport and they are helpful but they no longer have an Amazon store (in the UK at least).

    Any recommendations for a replacement IR (for the TV) and WiFi keyboard combination?

    noggin

    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

    HarryH

    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 :D


    noggin

    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.

    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

    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

    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?

    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.

    bm93

    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