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Hasbean · 2020-09-21, 16:32

Kodi and the Enigma VU+ addon is my favourite means of setting and managing my zgemma h2s box recordings from my Linux laptop. I have now bought a second box and was hoping to manage both boxes via Kodi but maybe it is not possible to have more than one PVR box available at a time. I can manage with OpenWebif or from the box itself but it would be nice if I could choose boxes from the Kodi PVR plugin. Running Kodi v18.8

**phunkyfish** · 2020-09-22, 15:19

For what purpose would you want to access two STBs?

The PVR addon is bound to a single backend.

Hasbean · 2020-09-22, 17:52

(2020-09-22, 15:19)phunkyfish Wrote: For what purpose would you want to access two STBs?

The PVR addon is bound to a single backend.

Most of my Internet time is spent on my Linux laptop where I use Kodi to set up and manage my recordings on my h2s STB. I also scrape recordings into my laptop Kodi Library. I had a humax box which has failed twice within a year so I decided to replace it with an h9twin. I have been looking forward to having the better LAN access and flexibility with my Humax replacement.

**phunkyfish** · 2020-09-22, 22:59

If multiple backends were supported you would just end up with every channel listed twice. I’m not sure you would want that.

And supporting multiple backends would be a huge task.

So if you can detail your use case maybe there is a better way to solve your problem.

emveepee · 2020-09-23, 00:08

If the multiple instance feature of Matrix ever allows it I would move Radio (internet) and Recordings (via export/import) to my always-on NAS. My PC with multiple PCI tuners and USB devices still could be turned on with WOL for recording, live tv and comskip but it would be off much more during the day. I prefer PVR for multi device over MySQL.

Martin

Hasbean · 2020-09-23, 10:48

(2020-09-22, 22:59)phunkyfish Wrote: If multiple backends were supported you would just end up with every channel listed twice. I’m not sure you would want that.

And supporting multiple backends would be a huge task.

So if you can detail your use case maybe there is a better way to solve your problem.

Thanks for your interest plunkyfish. I was not really thinking of managing 2 backends at the same time. I was thinking more of a selection and changeover function - basically to choose between different IP addresses. With a multi STB option set up, a menu (with a default and timeout delay like grub) could be offered at PVR startup. I would also need an easy method to restart PVR for a changeover.

**phunkyfish** · 2020-09-23, 23:42

Why not just manually change the IP each time? I’d say that would work as it would trigger a restart of PVR

Hasbean · 2020-09-24, 17:56

(2020-09-23, 23:42)phunkyfish Wrote: Why not just manually change the IP each time? I’d say that would work as it would trigger a restart of PVR

Yes that does change over OK and restarts ok - thanks

emveepee · (This post was last modified: 2020-09-24, 20:02 by emveepee.)

The issue on Matrix with changing the IP is it loads the default channels, and then it deletes the channels (@ksooo delete is still very slow) and then Kodi read the channels.

Martin

**phunkyfish** · 2020-09-24, 20:15

On my device which is only approx 150 channels it does not take long.

Hasbean · 2020-09-24, 22:59

I use my Favourites (TV) which only has 20 channels so does not take long.
I am thinking of having a desktop launcher and a script to toggle the PVR settings file. I would then only need a PVR restart.

emveepee · (This post was last modified: 2020-09-25, 00:07 by emveepee.)

(2020-09-24, 20:15)phunkyfish Wrote: On my device which is only approx 150 channels it does not take long.

Mine is about 2 channels a second for 3 days https://paste.kodi.tv/xedociyazi.kodi. I guess will create an issue if that wasn't expected.

Martin

**phunkyfish** · 2020-09-25, 09:12

Whoa, definitely not @emveepee.