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VDR (The Video Disk Recorder) is an open source PVR backend application for Linux designed to allow any computer to function as a DVR (Digital Video Recorder), in order to stream Live TV, radio, and record television programming using the computer's hard drive. The computer needs to be equipped with a digital TV tuner adapter (or TV tuner card). VDR uses drivers from the LinuxTV project.
By levering existing third-party PVR backend applications such as VDR that specialize in receiving television signals and support a client–server model which Kodi 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 Kodi as your primary interface once the initial pairing connection to VDR have been done and and configuration of the PVR client addon for it is complete.
Installing VDR
- See: VDR/Installation
VDR quick start guide
If your tuner hardware is not detected or is having issues, check http://linuxtv.org for driver support.
Connecting Kodi to VDR
To connect Kodi to a backend system (VDR in our case) you first need the PVR extension (which is part of Kodi since version 12 "Frodo") and the "VDR VNSI Client" addon.
On the VDR side you need a corresponding plugin to offer the content (live TV and recordings) to Kodi. The plugin for VDR over VNSI is available here: https://github.com/mdre77/vdr-plugin-vnsiserver (The original development at https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons/ is not maintained any longer).
- Go to Settings -> Add-ons -> Install from repository -> PVR Clients and select the VDR add-on
- Select "Configure"
- For Linux installation see... Ubuntu PVR add-ons
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