MythTV PVR

MythTV is a Free Open Source software digital video recorder (DVR) 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'd expect from a DVR type device. MythTV can also be setup with multiple backends (master/slave) and multiple frontends to spread out the workload of recording, scheduling, and post processing jobs. More information on MythTV can be found on their official website.

Important notes about MythTV

The MythTV PVR Addon for XBMC is not currently in the official PVR repository. It can be found on this fork: https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons and is expected to be in the official repo as soon as the builds stabilize.

Setting up MythTV

MythTV can be setup on a variety of Linux distributions. The MythTV Wiki page has several pages of detailed instruction sets for various distros and tuner types. Some of the more popular ones include:

• Fedora and CentOS
• Debian
• Ubuntu

Settings

MythTV Backend Hostname or IP The hostname or IP address of the server where MythTV / MythBackend is installed. If on the same machine then 'localhost' can be used. MythTV Backend Port The default is 6543 but this will need updating if you have changed it in the MythTV settings. MythTV Database Username The default is 'mythtv' but this will need updating if you have changed it in the MythTV settings. MythTV Database Password The default is 'mythtv' but this will need updating if you have changed it in the MythTV settings. MythTV Database Databasename The default is 'mythconverg' but this will need updating if you have changed it in the MythTV settings. Include more debug information in the log file If turned on, additional debugging information is written to the log file. This should be turned on if you want to debug or report problems. It should be off for normal usage. Enable Live TV This enables Live TV. Switch it off if you do want to use MythTV only for watching recordings. Allow Live TV to move scheduled shows This allows MythBackend to move scheduled recordings to another tuner if the scheduled tuner is blocked by an active Live TV playback. If turned off, you might miss recordings!