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 the addon's issue tracker here.

Branches

XBMC PVR addons like the MythTV addon are not compatible with all versions of XBMC (due to the PVR API version dependency). The addon repositories have different branches for the different XBMC versions.

• Branch master: Compatible with XBMC pre-Gotham (v13) development builds
• Branch frodo: Compatible with XBMC Frodo (v12)

Use git checkout <BRANCH> after cloning the repository to switch to the according branch before starting the build.

Build MythTV addon on Ubuntu

• Add repository for XBMC nightly 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 development 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)