"Simple" for me is often the command line and I just looked into scheduling a recording for an HDHomeRun tuner (which I have kicking around somewhere). This reminds me: if there were a relatively simple way to schedule a recording without a heavyweight PVR, Jellyfin would be all the "media center" most people with just a few recurring recordings might need. Reading a bit more about NextPVR, I am further impressed.Īpparently Kodi and, even better, Jellyfin can act as first-class clients (not just playback, but also scheduling recordings, etc.) However, conceptually I am now much more interested in truly open software, so the alternatives hold even greater interest (assuming they work as well!). It worked so well in its previous incarnation that I am inclined to test it. The downside is that NextPVR is not open source (nor, as a result "free" as in freedom, although it is - as before - no-cost software). NextPVR apparently also works on Linux and playback clients are available for both iOS and Android (thus TV boxen). Obviously, playback is all-important in this endeavor! ĪLSO, a totally exciting find: GB-PVR has been updated as NextPVR. I thought of Kodi-based solutions largely because I keep seeing it as an apparent "first class" provider for playback software broadly available on Android and Roku. This is probably the direction we will take as his server is not particularly powerful and might choke on additional tasks.
This seems great for use on tiny computers such as Raspberry Pi and (my favorite) Odroid. OpenELEC is a whole distro dedicated to PVR (also based on Kodi) as-an-appliance.
it looks like I will delve into this issue again, even if not for myself.Ī very quick review of this space over the past few minutes suggests you might want to look into Kodi as well as MediaPortal which is a fork of the former. He immediately reached out to me and asked whether it is easy (and still legal) to record from OTA as he recalled the famous time-shifting VCR case from decades ago. As I was writing my earlier post in this thread today a client got a tough e-mail from his ISP saying he should not have downloaded (via torrent) a not-so-recent TV show (freely available OTA!!) from the internet.
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