MythTV PVR

MythTV is a open source software PVR project that is designed to run on Linux, although other operating system packages are available. With MythTV you can watch Live TV, schedule recordings, view episode guide information, and many other features you expect from a DVR type appliance device. But more interesting for users is that as MythTV uses a distributed application structure it can also be configured as PVR backend (PVR server) for, supporting multiple  frontends as clients, with MythTV acting as the PVR backend that does work of tuning TV signals, recording, scheduling, and post processing jobs.

By levering existing third-party PVR backend applications such as MythTV that specialize in receiving television signals and support a client–server model which can access via a PVR client addon, these PVR features allows you to watch Live TV, listen to radio, view a EPG TV-Guide, schedule recordings and enables many other TV related features, all using  as your primary interface once the initial pairing connection to MythTV have been done and configuration of the PVR client addon for it is complete.

Installing MythTV
MythTV can be set up on a variety of Linux distributions and also on Mac OS X. The MythTV Wiki page has several pages of detailed instruction sets for various distros and tuner types.

The released PVR client addon for have been tested with MythTV PVR backend (server) version 0.27 - 0.28.

MythTV quick start guide
If your tuner hardware is not detected or is having issues, check http://linuxtv.org for driver support.

Connecting Kodi to MythTV

 * 1) Go to Settings -> Add-ons -> Enabled add-ons -> PVR Clients and select the MythTV add-on
 * 2) Select "Configure"

MythTV addon designed for Kodi (pvr.mythtv)
The addon supports MythTV Backend version 0.27 - 0.28. It inter-operates with new API provided by MythTV backend since 0.27. To use it first you have to enable the API services of your backend by running mythtv-setup and set the security pin as "0000", set the IPv6 address to value "::1" if you haven't IP6 network infrastructure.

Addon provides Live TV, recording playback and schedules services. It includes its internal demuxer for mpeg-ts standard and allows access of sources and storages of all MythTV infrastructure including master and its slave backends.



Addon allows streaming of Live TV and Recordings, listening to Radio channels, EPG and Timers, including fanarts, covers and previews from your MythTV backend.

General


Recording template
Configuration of the default rules for new recordings. Recording rule templates have been introduced in MythTV 0.26. For older MythTV versions, please use and configure the addon-Internal template provider. 

Advanced
Advanced tab contains settings to tune the addon. Some change the look and feel, while others modify the behavior with respect to your hardware configuration.



Troubleshooting

 * 1) If you're experiencing troubles with the addon, MythTV section of Kodi Forum is the correct place to ask for help.
 * 2) Always include a full debug log with the addon setting Include more debug information in the log file enabled. (also please make yourself familiar with Kodi troubleshooting)
 * 3) Issues that are only related to this addon (not to Kodi itself or Kodi's general PVR code) should be reported here: https://github.com/janbar/pvr.mythtv/issues (if unsure, ask in the forum first!)

Getting latest version from author

 * Binaries versions are available for Ubuntu using the PPA janbar
 * OSX, Windows and OpenELEC binaries are available on github page Download PVR.MythTV
 * For other platform, you have to build it from sources. Please see sections below.

Development

 * See Build addon from source to learn how to build addon from the official or from the development repository
 * This addon uses the Transifex Localization platform. You're welcome to contribute translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/kodi-main/resource/pvr-mythtv/

Additional guides and links

 * MythTV website - http://mythtv.org
 * Documentation
 * MythTV backend for Kodi support forum - http://forum.kodi.tv/forumdisplay.php?fid=170
 * Addon's issue tracker: https://github.com/janbar/pvr.mythtv/issues
 * MythTV genre colours in Kodi EPG: PVR/Backend/MythTV/DVB-EIT-categories
 * MythTV + HDHomeRun Prime: http://gameroomsolutions.com/live-tv-setup/