[kmarq]

As I continue my migration to using Kodi as my full time front end I've noticed some key PVR features that don't seem to be in place.

1) conflict notifications - it doesn't seem that you are notified if a recording cannot take place due to too many scheduled timers. It would be nice to get an option to choose which to proceed with

2) Series/Timer precedence - Ability to set which timers have precedence over others so that if there is a conflict the system can manage them.

3) Tuner in use when timer starts notification - a message with option to release the tuner you're using so the scheduled timer can activate rather than missing your recording


I know these would all require additional work on the pvr addons as well, but currently there is no way to use Kodi as the sole frontend. I still have to go into my pvr software to manage #1 and #2. Apologies if these exist in anyway, I'm fairly new to Kodi but haven't seen these come up at all.

[emveepee]

If you use the NextPVR backend conflict and priority options are available in the x-newa addon for Kodi using either web client (which gives you the native NextPVR UI on Kodi) or in more typical python addon style. 3 is automatic as live tv will stop for a timer.

Martin

[kmarq]

If you use the NextPVR backend conflict and priority options are available in the x-newa addon for Kodi using either web client (which gives you the native NextPVR UI on Kodi) or in more typical python addon style. 3 is automatic as live tv will stop for a timer.

Martin

I am using NextPVR and have looked at x-newa. It would just be nice if Kodi had some of these features included into the main program. That way no matter the PVR backend certain messages could be passed through and I don't need to leave my nice consistent looking interface to manage things. Ups the WAF another notch in my opinion.

[emveepee]

Your question was to do it from Kodi, but I understand now.

After that on top of your list you therefore need to add

- series recordings this is custom for NextPVR, ServerWMC and a few others (that's why all skins don't support it)
- failed timer review after epg update
- conflict mgt in failed timers.

I'm sure sub would support this but series recordings has been pretty slow coming.The reason for x-newa is to bridge the gap to allow more features while you wait for Kodi to catch up.

Martin

[karniemi]

Hmmm...just missed two recordings that I had scheduled. So...is it really true that there's no indication about tuner conflicts in Kodi PVR recordings?

With Kodi, I was able to set 3 concurrent recordings in 3 different channels and the EPG showed the recording symbol for all of them. But now that I checked...only one of the recordings was succesfull and 2 had failed to lack of tuners. Using MP as backend here. The MP client always showed me whether I'm able to record or not...so I did not even think there could be such a problem with Kodi. Really?

[DocEd]

Does anyone have an update to this situation? There doesn't appear to be any conflict management available to kodi. If a tuner is being used by the nextPVR backend, and I attempt to use the same tuner to watch live TV in Kodi, Kodi always crashes. The recording continues in nextPVR, which seems unaffected. Similarly, if I am watching live TV and a recording starts with the same tuner, Kodi crashes.

I'm using the aeon nox skin in 16.0 and nextPVR 3.6.6.

Any help is greatly appreciated!