Kodi 17 Alpha 3 Released With New Skins, Improved Music Library & PVR

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Kodi 17 Alpha 3 Released With New Skins, Improved Music Library & PVR

The third alpha release of Kodi 17 "Krypton" is now available and it has continued landing new/improved functionality...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Kodi-17-Alpha-3

[dxxvi]

I hope there will be a day Kodi is able to record from a HDHomeRun so that I can get rid of the expensive set-top box (~ $13) and the expensive DVR service (~ $9).

[johnc]

I think OpenELEC can do that...? Maybe.

[starshipeleven]

I hope there will be a day Kodi is able to record from a HDHomeRun so that I can get rid of the expensive set-top box (~ $13) and the expensive DVR service (~ $9).

is 22$ expensive?

[starshipeleven]

I think OpenELEC can do that...? Maybe.

It's a propretary service. Unless they make a linux application, there is no other way other than using the box they give you.

[wdb974]

is 22$ expensive?

Depends on what you get in return. Paying $22 a month for a sack of shit (you know... reality TV and all that crap) is very expensive.

[starshipeleven]

Depends on what you get in return. Paying $22 a month for a sack of shit (you know... reality TV and all that crap) is very expensive.

Well, there is none forcing him to pay for that. I hope.

I mean, here were I live we have to pay a tax that amounts to around 20$ a month to support shitty "public television" (mostly quiz and garbage for 60+ yo, occasional totally unbiased newsfeed, buttloads of ads anyway), but that thing he talked about is 100% his own choice.

[Kano]

At least "o" gives useful stats again. I would prefer all on 1 page in case of pvr but at least it works now.

[Leatherface]

I hope there will be a day Kodi is able to record from a HDHomeRun so that I can get rid of the expensive set-top box (~ $13) and the expensive DVR service (~ $9).

Recording and Timeshift works perfectly if you have an TVheadend server running that supports HDHomeRun.
That solution also supports encrypted channels.

[droidhacker]

I hope there will be a day Kodi is able to record from a HDHomeRun so that I can get rid of the expensive set-top box (~ $13) and the expensive DVR service (~ $9).

Unless I'm mistaken, hdhomerun looks like a commercial *competitor* to, I think something like mythtv? And mythtv partially overlaps with the functionality of xbmc/kodi. According to mythtv, they can work happily with a lot of hdhomerun devices https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hdhomerun , and there are ways of integrating xbmc and mythtv; http://kodi.wiki/view/MythTV_PVR

So I think that you can get where you want by shoving mythtv in between hdhomerun and xbmc!

Edit: xbmc would replace mythtv-frontend. Mythtv-backend will do the work of interfacing with hdhomerun.
Setup actually looks pretty straightforward. Mythtv can be a bit awkward to configure, but that is a separate problem from hdhomerun, and you just have to deal with it until you get it figured out.