MythTV PVR

PVR/Contents 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.

The released addon supports MythTV Backend version up to 0.26.

Installing MythTV

MythTV can be setup 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.

MythTV quick start guide

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

Connecting XBMC to MythTV

1. As noted above, some beta builds (depending on OS) will have PVR add-on clients bundled with XBMC. If not, your first step will be to install the add-on. This step will likely change for the final version of Frodo, but it has not been finalized how PVR add-ons will be downloaded.
2. Go to Settings -> Add-ons -> Enabled add-ons -> PVR Clients and select the MythTV add-on
3. Select "Configure"

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 for the MythTV database. MythTV Database Password The default is 'mythtv' but this will need updating if you have changed it for the MythTV database. 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!

Next step:

Configuring XBMC

Development

• Please go to the page Build addon from source to learn how to build addon either from the official git or from the development repository
• This addon uses the Transifex Localization platform. You're welcome to contribute translations: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/XBMC-Main-Frodo/resource/pvr-mythtv-cmyth/

Additional guides and links

• MythTV website - http://mythtv.org
  • Documentation
• MythTV backend for XBMC support forum - http://forum.xbmc.org/forumdisplay.php?fid=170
• Addon's issue tracker: https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons/issues