Add-on:VBox TV Gateway PVR Client

VBox TV Gateway PVR Client, is a PVR Client Addon to connect VBox TV Gateway, VHome TV Gateway, and V@Home TV Gateway devices to Kodi.

Overview
This is a PVR addon for interfacing with VBox Communication's "XTi" based TV Gateways, which are network television tuners. It supports all the basic functionality you would expect, such as watching, recording and timeshifting. Additionally, it supports augmenting the over-the-air guide data with external XMLTV data.

Settings
This Addon is compatible with Kodi v15 (until the official release of Kodi v15, please download the latest nightly - Download Kodi 15)

The VBox TV Gateway PVR Addon comes preloaded with Kodi v15


 * 1) Go to System -> Settings -> Add-ons -> My add-ons -> PVR Clients and select the VBox TV Gateway PVR add-on
 * 2) Select Configure

Be sure to select Okay when you are done changing settings in order to save those changes and to Enable the add-on




 * Connection setting (Internal IP)
 * Mandatory input
 * Enter the TV Gateway's IP address (from within the home network)
 * HTTP port - default is 80 - port address for web interface
 * UPnP port - default is 55555 - streaming port
 * Connection timeout - default is 3 seconds - when connecting from outside the home network, the add-on attempts to connect to the internal IP address first, and after the set timeout, it attempts to connect using the external IP address




 * Connection setting (External IP)
 * Optional input
 * Use this setting to connect to the TV Gateway from anywhere in the world and continue to watch and record Live and scheduled TV
 * Enter your network's external IP address or hostname - Enter the external IP address
 * HTTP port - default is 19999 - External web interface port address, enter the same port address as configured in the Remote Access section of the TV Gateway web management
 * UPnP port - default is 55555 - External Streaming port address, enter the same port address as configured in the Remote Access section of the TV Gateway web management
 * Connection timeout - default is 10 seconds - If the add-n cannot connect to the TV Gateway after set time is passed, the Add-on will report that it cannot connect to the TV Gateway. Please check your IP address in the Remote Access section.




 * EPG - TV Program Guide
 * default leave blank
 * By default the add-on presents the free EPG data collected by the VBox TV Gateway from the DVB-SI (System Information) EIT (Event Information Table) stream
 * Use External XMLTV - To set external program guide source, point to an XMLTV file,
 * The add-on will automatically match the channels with the XMLTV channels and will create a channel_mappings.xml file located at %UserData%\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\addon_data\pvr.vbox. to enable manual channel matching
 * Prefer external EPG over OTA - Use this setting to mix the EPG collected by the VBox TV Gateway with the XMLTV file and provide advantage to the external EPG source




 * TimeShift
 * default is disabled
 * Timeshift allows to pause or rewind an active Live TV channel
 * Enable Timeshift - will create a temp buffer file that stores the current active Live TV channel. The buffer file reset on channel switch
 * Timeshift path - Set the buffer file path location




 * Kodi Live TV
 *  default is disabled
 * After configuring the vbox.pvr PVR addon - Go to System -> Settings -> TV -> General and press Enabled to enable Kodi's Live TV support

Live TV PVR add-on Overview



 * Live TV Preview Window
 * The preview window provides a snap view of the channel list, EPG and active live TV channel




 * Live TV full screen and Control
 * Full Screen Live TV
 * Press OK in your remote or tap with your mouse on the screen to open the control bar
 * Control bar - sorted in order of appearance


 * 1) Program name
 * 2) Stream information video / Audio quality
 * 3) zap channel up or down
 * 4) Rewind Live TV
 * 5) Pause Live TV
 * 6) Forward Live TV
 * 7) Open channel list menu
 * 8) Open EPG table
 * 9) Teletext
 * 10) Subtitle - connect to the free subtitle captured by the VBox TV Gateway from the DVB-SI
 * 11) video settings
 * 12) Mute
 * 13) Record current Live TV channel


 * Live TV full screen with Channel list menu
 * Full Screen Live TV
 * OSD channel list with list of current program name




 * Live TV full screen with Program Information
 * Full Screen Live TV
 * OSD current channel EPG menu - when pressing on a program it opens the Program information Window
 * Program Information


 * 1) Program name
 * 2) Start, end time
 * 3) Duration
 * 4) Genres
 * 5) Program synopsis
 * 6) Switch - Switch to channel's Live TV
 * 7) Add Timer - schedule to record this program using the VBox TV Gateway - recordings are stored on a USB or network storage and shared between devices and applications
 * 8) OK - close the Program Information window




 * EPG - Program Guide Table
 * Program guide table with Program synopsis
 * When pressing on a TV program the Program Information window pops up




 * Live TV - Device and Stream information
 * Monitor active Live TV performance


 * 1) Audio parameters
 * 2) Video parameters
 * 3) Device performance status
 * PVR stream information


 * 1) Connected VBox TV Gateway
 * 2) Tuner details - which tuner is in use
 * 3) Signal quality
 * 4) NSR
 * 5) BER level
 * 6) Service ID
 * 7) Encryption
 * 8) MUX - current MUX in use

Keyboard shortcuts

 * 1) Number - press the channel number to jump to a channel
 * 2) "+-" - Volume - Use the "+" and "-" buttons to change volume
 * 3) "e" - Full EPG - Load the Full EPG screen
 * 4) "c" - Channel list window
 * 5) "b" - Timer list
 * 6) "i" - Channel info
 * 7) "r" - Rewind - When timeshift is enabled
 * 8) "f" - Fast forward
 * 9) "o" - PVR Stream information
 * 10) "h" - TV Channel preview mode
 * 11) "j" - Radio channel preview mode
 * 12) "k" - TV Recordings
 * 13) "a" - Audio offset
 * 14) "'" - Seeking
 * 15) "<" - Seek backward
 * 16) ">" - Seek forward
 * 17) "z" - Stream information
 * 18) "x" - Exit
 * 19) "v" - teletext
 * 20) "m" - Live TV control bar