[lefko]

That may be true, but I'm pretty sure that it was working according to Kodi. At least the EPG was loading at startup, and the add on was enabled. Whether this was due to the maturity of WMC Client I can't say. I can also say this setup was working on both my Kodi boxes for a couple of weeks. One went first then a few weeks later the other went. This began a couple of weeks after I switched from NPVR to WMC Client.

[deskbound]

PVR apparently not finding backend on separate drive in same machine. Frontend drive has OE 14.2-rc1 and I enabled Myth PVR and it installed its own storage location on its drive. In Confluence under Storage it shows /dev/sda2 and it sees the other drive /dev/sdb1. That second drive is Mythbuntu backend and when I boot into it, on the desktop it shows a storage file of the OE drive and when I go into settings I'm sure it is dealing with that frontend drive not its own storage. I don't know what to put in the PVR and backend address configurations. Was using 127.0.0.1 in both drive configurations.

[nickr]

Both mythbackend and kodi have to be running at the same time.

[deskbound]

nickr

Thanks for your quick response. I believe they should boot together if on same machine. I confirmed another post showing identical log errors that the backend stops/waits if backend configuration has errors. He didn't say what config, item change he made, so I'm looking for another posting to find the secret as the error list is common.

[nickr]

You can't be running mythbuntu AND openelec at the same time on the same machine can you?

[deskbound]

No, can't do. But I can mount and access a second drive. I assume in the OE PVR configuration that it would mount the backend seeing that it asks questions about it.

[nickr]

No it does not. It uses the myth api. Which requires the back end to be running

Why not install kodi in mythbuntu and forget OE if you want to run on one machine?

[deskbound]

Duh! Ahh! I don't know why not. Let me confess that the girlfriend is still training me on the remote. I spent the past 3 months trying to get TVheadend running and therefore now familiar booting OE throughout the day and night endlessly changing settings as others have instructed. However, I read hundreds if not thousands of posts (some over and over) and found one of the company tuner guys making an off topic comment in a post last year that TVheadend with their tuner must crash but he listed Mythtv as compatible and here I am.

I learned OE boots super fast on the SSD and it already had the Mythtv PVR frontend loaded so I started there. But I guess without function speed is useless.

So assuming a clean install, I have a SSD & HD. I also have a win7 laptop with WMC that works fine with the tuner and would like to use that as a TV in the kitchen and also connected to this server if not complicated.

I'm open to any configuration possible including dropping the SSD and putting everything on the HD. What do you suggest?

[nickr]

If you have a functioning mythbuntu install I recommend either:

1. Using mythfrontend; or

2. Installing kodi on mythbuntu and using it as your frontend while the backend is running.

If you are doing a reinstall, I would install mythbuntu on the SSD and have it record to the hard drive. Again mythfrontend and kodi will both work fine.

[deskbound]

nickr

I just reinstalled mythbuntu on SSD. Will install other stuff tomorrow and try it.

Thanks

[deskbound]

nickr

You are once again the man. It is running fine for the first time ever. Still have a few more things to do such as set record to the second drive but I think I saw the place to put in a path but not sure how to seeing most of the paths use IP addresses in Mytbuntu. Also do I just format that storage disk or should I put an operating system on it.

Thanks

[nickr]

Assuming you have nothing on the hard drive you need, simply format it as one partition as xfs or ext4.

Mount it at, say, /mnt/media and make a directory inside it called recordings. Make it's ownership right with

Code:

chown -R mythtv:mythtv /mnt/media/recordings

Then set it to mount on each boot in /etc/fstab

Then in mythtv-setup set /mnt/media/recordings as your default storage group.

[living_room_rob]

I'm seeing the same symptoms as others here: No "Live TV" item in the menu. Googling the problem brought me to this thread.

I've got Kodi 14.2 (mythbuntu/kodibuntu) on my "media center" PC. I have a MythTV backend running ver 0.27 on a separate mythbuntu machine. The PVR plugin is installed and enabled.

Unless it was a super-realistic dream, Live TV had been working a few weeks ago. Now, it's gone. Perhaps something was updated that introduced an incompatibility, but I'm not sure how to tell.

I can see Live TV with myth frontend running on the myth backend box. I can also see live tv from a third computer running myth frontend. It appears to be operating normally. I have the Kodi PVR configured the same as the myth frontend on the other PC.

In the System Info I can see the PVR Service, and it lists the correct URL, and shows correct available disk space, etc. on the backend. I see that there are the correct number of recordings and upcoming recordings. It also shows 0 channels, which looks suspicious.

I've uploaded the log here: http://goo.gl/uVaSln

What are my next steps?

Thanks

[nickr]

Can you watch recordings?

[nickr]

Also go through the docs http://janbar.github.io/pvr.mythtv/manual/index.html