[porky996t]

Hi Guys,

I'm writing as a long time MediaPortal user and financial contributor (approx 10 years) and have a whole house media network running from a central server with 2 x quad DVB & DVS cards installed.

I have been experiencing major MP problems since March and have not been able to play live TV at all on the client machines. I have just completed a full re-install of the server OS (Win 7 x64) and a fresh install of MediaPortal 1.20 TV Server, and still cannot get live TV working. The MP forum doesn't seem as active as it once was, with no resolutions to my difficulties and I'm now looking to change to something else.

Why change?? I started using MP as a 'complete' solution for watching and listening to various media, but in addition to not being able to view live TV I cannot access Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC iPlayer, All4, YouTube and so on through the Online Videos plugin without having issues, which is a bit poor.

So, in essence, what I'm asking is can Kodi easily access the MP TV server, and as a client can it access the online services as noted above too?

Many thanks in advance for answers/advice/comments

Cheers,

Porky

[MC Darkmaster]

Hi. I am using MediaPortal 1 TV Server in combination with Kodi/XBMC for several years. It works flawlessly (except the UWP Version atm). So from this aspect everything is working as expected and you could move to Kodi.

The other mentioned plugins: I don't use them, so I can't say anything about it.

Greetings, Dark

[mcelliott]

Hi,

Welcome. I was a long-time MP user, and switched a couple of years ago, although I am still using the MediaPortal TV server back-end.

Short answer is yes! There are plugins for online videos of various types (legal content only of course!).

Client systems can connect to the MediaPortal TV server. With the latest Win10 update, there are a few issues (see recent threads), but I have Raspberry Pi clients working flawlessly, and record TV to a NAS, so I have a minimal system for my TV server. The 'secret' seems to be to have your router reserve an IP address for the TV server, so you can access it by IP address rather than by name.

I looked at XBMC/Kodi for a few years before making the switch. For a while, I couldn't seem to get it configured as I wanted it, and it didn't look as nice (my opinion), but right now, to have Kodi running on a Raspberry Pi, hardly consuming any power, and pulling media from various folders on a NAS, all with scraped metadata. It's a no-brainer I'm afraid.

I have tried other TV servers (TvHeadEnd) and it may be my setup/cards but I can't seem to get it working as well as MediaPortal. TV cards and Linux don't seem to be quite ready for prime time, but that may just be my lack of experience. With a clean setup, the MediaPortal TV server and Kodi is a great combination.

[porky996t]

Thanks for the answers. I'm sure I recognise your username from the MP forum. I have just downloaded Kodi onto my workstation in order to have a 'play'. Seems to be scraping all the info for movies and TV series, but I'm struggling to get TV to work at the moment.

I'll see how I get on with the workstation setup and I'll have to consider the WAF as all the other TV's use the MCE remote, so it needs to be an easy GUI.

[mcelliott]

You have to install a plugin for the TV server to allow Kodi to connect to it, and then you need to have the recording and timeshift folders shared and accessible over the network.

Just check the Wiki for instructions. Best to get it working on your actual TV server first, so you'll know there isn't anything major. Then you can look at the network clients.

[porky996t]

Thanks, your help has been great. I have it set up and running on two clients now. Just trying to get familiar with it, and work out how to auto start when windows starts and other stuff.