MythTV PVR/BuildFromSource

• The addon is part of XBMC's official addon repository: https://github.com/opdenkamp/xbmc-pvr-addons
• The addon's development repository is https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons. You will also find our issue tracker here.

Build MythTV addon on Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise)

Note: all XBMC 12 (Frodo) builds from the Team XBMC PPA already have all PVR Addons(incl MythTv) pre-packaged

• Add repository for xbmc Frodo builds

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:team-xbmc/unstable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

• Install xbmc from nightly builds

sudo apt-get install xbmc

• Install build utilities/libraries

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras autoconf git
sudo apt-get install build-essential automake checkinstall
sudo apt-get install autoconf automake bison flex libtool intltool zip
sudo apt-get install libmysqlclient-dev libboost-filesystem-dev

• Create zip file for xbmc mythtv addon

mkdir source
cd source
git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git
cd xbmc-pvr-addons
./bootstrap
./configure --enable-addons-with-dependencies
make clean zip

• Put the addon in a handy location

cp addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth-linux-x86_64.zip $HOME

• Start XBMC, add the addon using the zip file, then finally enable Live TV using the mythtv addon above.

Build MythTV addon on OSX

• Install Xcode for your Mac. Go to http://connect.apple.com/

Snow leopard: Xcode 3.2.6

Lion: Xcode 4.3

Mountain Lion: Xcode 4.4

• Install macports. Go to http://http://www.macports.org/install.php

Prefer Mac OS X Package (.pkg) installer specific for your Mac (Mountain Lion, Lion, Snow Leopard)

• Configure macports using Terminal console

sudo port selfupdate

Here sudo need your favorite password.

• Install required tools to build addons using macports.

sudo port install automake autoconf libtool pkgconfig

• Install boost headers.

sudo port install boost
sudo ln -s /opt/local/include/boost /usr/local/include/boost

• Install mysql-connector-c

cd ; mkdir src ; cd src

curl -L http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/mysql/Connector-C/mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz \
  -o mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz

tar xvfz mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit.tar.gz

cd mysql-connector-c-6.0.2-osx10.5-x86-64bit

sudo cp bin/* /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp lib/* /usr/local/lib/
sudo mkdir /usr/local/include/mysql
sudo cp -R include/ /usr/local/include/mysql/

cd

• Download xbmc-pvr-addons sources from git repository

cd src
git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git

• Build it

cd xbmc-pvr-addons
./bootstrap
./configure --enable-addons-with-dependencies
make clean zip

• Install addon pvr.mythtv.cmyth with XBMC frodo (nightly build)

Get it from src/xbmc-pvr-addons/addons/pvr.mythtv.cmyth-darwin-unknown.zip and upload it with XBMC as zip file.

Build MythTV addon on Windows

• Install Visual C++ 2010
• Download xbmc-pvr-addons sources from git repository

cd src
git clone git://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons.git

• Execute DownloadBuildDeps.bat in xbmc-pvr-addons\project\BuildDependencies
• Open xbmc-pvr-addons.sln from xbmc-pvr-addons\project\VS2010Express in Visual C++ 2010
• Build it
• To install the addon, copy the folder xbmc-pvr-addons\addons\pvr.mythtv.cmyth\addon to your XBMC Frodo addon direcory

Build MythTV git into OpenELEC

• Follow normal OpenELEC build instructions (http://wiki.openelec.tv/index.php?title=Compile_from_source) but adjust the "Start compiling" procedure as below

cd OpenELEC.tv

• Run the below script to replace normally included pvr-addons with latest fetzerch git version

#!/bin/bash

source ./packages/mediacenter/xbmc-pvr-addons/meta

if [ ! -d ./sources/$PKG_NAME/ ]; then
    mkdir -p ./sources/$PKG_NAME/
fi
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip
mv xbmc-pvr-addons-master $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION
tar -cJf $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION
rm -r $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION master.zip

mv $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz ./sources/$PKG_NAME/
md5sum sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz > sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz.md5
echo "http://sources.openelec.tv/devel/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz" > ./sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz.url

rm -rf ./build.OpenELEC*/.stamps/xbmc-pvr-addons ./build.OpenELEC*/xbmc-pvr-addons-* ./build.OpenELEC*/image/.stamps/xbmc-pvr-addons

• Continue with regular build instructions (PROJECT=XXX ARCH=YYY make release)