(2020-03-19, 22:59)el_gonz87 Wrote: Hi Everyone,

First off let me start by APOLOGIZING to you all for being MIA for so long. That is not the first impression I wanted to make in this community trust me.
Had some unexpected things happen in my life that required me to pull away and focus on living (won't bore you all with the details  )...

Now that I am in a better place in life and with all this COVID-19 going around I find myself with an abundance of free time...

There are a couple things I am looking to occupy my time with and one of them was getting back to programming. Was dusting off my old flash drives and found by luck my most recent code I had developed for this addon.
It's going to take a little bit to port to Kodi 18, but was thinking about doing that as a possible start.

I understand it has been a LONG TIME and people might have already found other solutions to recording IPTV, but would anyone still have interest in a development of this addon?

The OS I was going to begin with would be:
Linux
Windows x86 and x64

Possible avenues:
Android Fire OS
LibreElec (is this Raspberry PI?)

Let me know your feedback, even if negative I understand.

Thx!

1. Supports loading Season & Episode from XMLTV (has some strict assumptions, based on what EPG123 provides, can expand to other sources w/ examples provided).
   
2. Added Timer Rules!! (BIG UPDATE & Will require much more testing!!).
   
   1. Now you can record entire shows with a simple click!
      
3. Added support for text style genre from XMLTV no more categories required.
   
4. Fixed previously reported issue w Padding (start & stop), now this info is preserved.
   
5. Added client & server mode, these new features will be a little bit taxing on low end CPUs, so added a setting to stick to just a DVR extender (can manage timers & recordings, but will offload FFMPEG to server ideally a HTPC)
   
   1. Will Demo this on another video soon.
      
6. Added option to filter channels on only those with EPG (I like this personally but defaulted it to off).
   
7. Added periodical reload of M3U & XMLTV (based on schedule in settings e.g. daily/weekly/on startup).
   
8. Fixed video duration, I now pipe FFMPEG stderr to a log for debug and to get accurate video duration!
   
9. Added channel numbers from M3U playlist if available (via tvg-chno="#")
   
10. Probably more, it was really a complete rewrite. 
    

(2020-03-31, 06:18)el_gonz87 Wrote: Hi All,

Wanted to provide an update. I have been working on this plugin pretty hard the last few days and completely re-wrote the code to add stability and new features!

New Features:

1. Supports loading Season & Episode from XMLTV (has some strict assumptions, based on what EPG123 provides, can expand to other sources w/ examples provided).
   
2. Added Timer Rules!! (BIG UPDATE & Will require much more testing!!).
   
   1. Now you can record entire shows with a simple click!
      
3. Added support for text style genre from XMLTV no more categories required.
   
4. Fixed previously reported issue w Padding (start & stop), now this info is preserved.
   
5. Added client & server mode, these new features will be a little bit taxing on low end CPUs, so added a setting to stick to just a DVR extender (can manage timers & recordings, but will offload FFMPEG to server ideally a HTPC)
   
   1. Will Demo this on another video soon.
      
6. Added option to filter channels on only those with EPG (I like this personally but defaulted it to off).
   
7. Added periodical reload of M3U & XMLTV (based on schedule in settings e.g. daily/weekly/on startup).
   
8. Fixed video duration, I now pipe FFMPEG stderr to a log for debug and to get accurate video duration!
   
9. Added channel numbers from M3U playlist if available (via tvg-chno="#")
   
10. Probably more, it was really a complete rewrite. 
    

Here is a quick demo:
PVRIptv Simple Client w HD Recording Demo

So far I have build this new version on windows. This will not be backwards compatible to any of the previous iterations...

I think Linux should be straight copy paste rebuild. Still setting up my RPI for LibreElec(I'm a newbie at this  ).

Anyways thanks to those still interested, hope to keep this going.

PS: still need Windows & Linux testers.. Haven't heard back from @bsoriano, hope he can test new version if previous one worked. 

(2020-03-31, 10:09)basilgello Wrote:

(2020-03-31, 06:18)el_gonz87 Wrote: Hi All,

Wanted to provide an update. I have been working on this plugin pretty hard the last few days and completely re-wrote the code to add stability and new features!

New Features:

1. Supports loading Season & Episode from XMLTV (has some strict assumptions, based on what EPG123 provides, can expand to other sources w/ examples provided).
   
2. Added Timer Rules!! (BIG UPDATE & Will require much more testing!!).
   
   1. Now you can record entire shows with a simple click!
      
3. Added support for text style genre from XMLTV no more categories required.
   
4. Fixed previously reported issue w Padding (start & stop), now this info is preserved.
   
5. Added client & server mode, these new features will be a little bit taxing on low end CPUs, so added a setting to stick to just a DVR extender (can manage timers & recordings, but will offload FFMPEG to server ideally a HTPC)
   
   1. Will Demo this on another video soon.
      
6. Added option to filter channels on only those with EPG (I like this personally but defaulted it to off).
   
7. Added periodical reload of M3U & XMLTV (based on schedule in settings e.g. daily/weekly/on startup).
   
8. Fixed video duration, I now pipe FFMPEG stderr to a log for debug and to get accurate video duration!
   
9. Added channel numbers from M3U playlist if available (via tvg-chno="#")
   
10. Probably more, it was really a complete rewrite. 
    

Here is a quick demo:
PVRIptv Simple Client w HD Recording Demo

So far I have build this new version on windows. This will not be backwards compatible to any of the previous iterations...

I think Linux should be straight copy paste rebuild. Still setting up my RPI for LibreElec(I'm a newbie at this  ).

Anyways thanks to those still interested, hope to keep this going.

PS: still need Windows & Linux testers.. Haven't heard back from @bsoriano, hope he can test new version if previous one worked.       

Good job Gonzalo! In the meantime, I created a quick patch to run IPTV Simple's Matrix branch (version 4.11.5) on Leia and tested it working.
Now I was going to add the recording code from 7FM's fork of your addon into the newest version but now I am really in doubt.

Should I reach you in PM with the patches I already did or you do not want any coordination?      

(2020-03-31, 20:19)Atamans Wrote: Thanks for this modification:

* Starting recording works, but does not record, there is no recording file replaced flv with .mkv and .ts.

* The end of recording in the player ends with the suspension LibrELEC and restart

* Live channel playback very distorts the image, I tried different decoding settings in the player settings

I read the forum, I found no solution

my device is Pc with intel i3

(2020-03-31, 06:18)el_gonz87 Wrote: Hi All,

Wanted to provide an update. I have been working on this plugin pretty hard the last few days and completely re-wrote the code to add stability and new features!

New Features:

1. Supports loading Season & Episode from XMLTV (has some strict assumptions, based on what EPG123 provides, can expand to other sources w/ examples provided).
   
2. Added Timer Rules!! (BIG UPDATE & Will require much more testing!!).
   
   1. Now you can record entire shows with a simple click!
      
3. Added support for text style genre from XMLTV no more categories required.
   
4. Fixed previously reported issue w Padding (start & stop), now this info is preserved.
   
5. Added client & server mode, these new features will be a little bit taxing on low end CPUs, so added a setting to stick to just a DVR extender (can manage timers & recordings, but will offload FFMPEG to server ideally a HTPC)
   
   1. Will Demo this on another video soon.
      
6. Added option to filter channels on only those with EPG (I like this personally but defaulted it to off).
   
7. Added periodical reload of M3U & XMLTV (based on schedule in settings e.g. daily/weekly/on startup).
   
8. Fixed video duration, I now pipe FFMPEG stderr to a log for debug and to get accurate video duration!
   
9. Added channel numbers from M3U playlist if available (via tvg-chno="#")
   
10. Probably more, it was really a complete rewrite. 
    

Here is a quick demo:
PVRIptv Simple Client w HD Recording Demo

So far I have build this new version on windows. This will not be backwards compatible to any of the previous iterations...

I think Linux should be straight copy paste rebuild. Still setting up my RPI for LibreElec(I'm a newbie at this  ).

Anyways thanks to those still interested, hope to keep this going.

PS: still need Windows & Linux testers.. Haven't heard back from @bsoriano, hope he can test new version if previous one worked. 

(2020-04-01, 22:38)bsoriano Wrote: @el_gonz87 , got the new link, thanks.

I have not been able to get this installed.  I copied the contents of the foler to my <userdata>\kodi\addons folder, but Kodi does not detect that the addon is there.  I also tried copying the folder to <program files>\kodi\addons like you stated in your e-mail, but this does not work either.  I am running Kodi 18.5 64-bit.  Initially, I just overwrote the contents of the pvr.iptvsimple folder that I had (I had the PVR client working correctly), but this did not work either, on a Kodi restart, the PVR client was not detected.  Any ideas?

Regards,

Bart

(2020-04-01, 21:34)el_gonz87 Wrote: If you could start documenting your patches as code snippets (// this code does this {string str... blah blah blah}, I would be happy to add to my plugin in future or you can fork it once it is published. Whatever you did for the current version of github will probably need to be modified ALOT as I completely re-wrote addon.

(2020-04-02, 10:03)basilgello Wrote:

(2020-04-01, 21:34)el_gonz87 Wrote: If you could start documenting your patches as code snippets (// this code does this {string str... blah blah blah}, I would be happy to add to my plugin in future or you can fork it once it is published. Whatever you did for the current version of github will probably need to be modified ALOT as I completely re-wrote addon.

I am documenting the changes, but I did not manage to do much so far:

1. Took 7FM's fork and applied all the patches from Leia vanilla pvr.iptvsimple on top of it.
2. Took Matrix vanilla pvr.iptvsimple and wrote a small patch to target Leia

I will be glad to test your addon! 

(2020-04-01, 21:34)el_gonz87 Wrote: Still need windows + linux testers, I think the code is stable enough to begin porting so my target is to have a LibreElec build by end of week.

(2020-04-02, 17:25)el_gonz87 Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 10:03)basilgello Wrote:

(2020-04-01, 21:34)el_gonz87 Wrote: If you could start documenting your patches as code snippets (// this code does this {string str... blah blah blah}, I would be happy to add to my plugin in future or you can fork it once it is published. Whatever you did for the current version of github will probably need to be modified ALOT as I completely re-wrote addon.

I am documenting the changes, but I did not manage to do much so far:

1. Took 7FM's fork and applied all the patches from Leia vanilla pvr.iptvsimple on top of it.
2. Took Matrix vanilla pvr.iptvsimple and wrote a small patch to target Leia

I will be glad to test your addon!  

Great what OS are you running? Also, will start to take a look at 7FM's fork. 

(2020-04-02, 18:38)basilgello Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 17:25)el_gonz87 Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 10:03)basilgello Wrote: I am documenting the changes, but I did not manage to do much so far:

1. Took 7FM's fork and applied all the patches from Leia vanilla pvr.iptvsimple on top of it.
2. Took Matrix vanilla pvr.iptvsimple and wrote a small patch to target Leia

I will be glad to test your addon!  

Great what OS are you running? Also, will start to take a look at 7FM's fork.  

Debian 10 "Buster" amd64. If you need I can push the updated 7FM's repo to my Github. 

(2020-04-02, 20:18)el_gonz87 Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 18:38)basilgello Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 17:25)el_gonz87 Wrote: Great what OS are you running? Also, will start to take a look at 7FM's fork.  

Debian 10 "Buster" amd64. If you need I can push the updated 7FM's repo to my Github.  

If you could just document what 7FMs patches were and what they did that will be helpful. Please know what anything done with that old repo will have to most likely be rewritten as the code base has changed a lot. Send me a PM with your e-mail and I will send you a linux build to test. 

(2020-04-02, 20:18)el_gonz87 Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 18:38)basilgello Wrote:

(2020-04-02, 17:25)el_gonz87 Wrote: Great what OS are you running? Also, will start to take a look at 7FM's fork.  

Debian 10 "Buster" amd64. If you need I can push the updated 7FM's repo to my Github.  

If you could just document what 7FMs patches were and what they did that will be helpful. Please know what anything done with that old repo will have to most likely be rewritten as the code base has changed a lot. Send me a PM with your e-mail and I will send you a linux build to test.