MythTV PVR/BuildFromSource

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

Branches

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

• Branch master: Compatible with KODI Helix development builds
• Branch gotham: Compatible with XBMC Gotham (v13)

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 git
sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf checkinstall
sudo apt-get install bison flex libtool intltool zip

• Create zip file for KODI MythTV addon

mkdir source
cd source
git clone -b helix git://github.com/janbar/xbmc-pvr-addons.git
cd xbmc-pvr-addons
./bootstrap
./configure
make clean
make -C lib/cppmyth
make -C addons/pvr.mythtv zip

• Put the addon in a handy location

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

• You may need to delete the previous addon zip file out of ~/.kodi/addons/packages/ to allow installation of newer revision with the same addon version number

rm ~/.kodi/addons/packages/pvr.mythtv-linux-x86_64.zip

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

Build MythTV addon on OSX

• Install git. Go to http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer
• Install Xcode for your Mac. Go to http://connect.apple.com/
• Install Command line tools: Go to http://connect.apple.com/ or type "xcode-select --install" in terminal

Snow leopard: Xcode 3.2.6

Lion: Xcode 4.3+

Mountain Lion: Xcode 4.4+

Maverick: Xcode 5.0.1 or newer

• Now open a terminal console and download cmake tool to build addon. Below the cmake sources are installed in the folder $HOME/src

mkdir src ; cd src
git clone -b release http://cmake.org/cmake.git
cd cmake
./bootstrap ; make

Then install cmake tool. At prompt enter your password.

sudo make install

• Clone the pvr.mythtv sources from git repository

cd $HOME/src
git clone -b doityourself git://github.com/janbar/pvr.mythtv.git

• Optionally you can choose the branch you want to build. Above doityourself branch (development) is checked out.

gotham branch

cd pvr.mythtv ; git checkout gotham ; cd ..

helix branch

cd pvr.mythtv ; git checkout helix ; cd ..

• Build it in a new cleaned folder build

mkdir -p build
rm -rf build/*
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCORE_SYSTEM_NAME=darwin -DUSE_LTO=1 ../pvr.mythtv/
make

• Create the package ZIP

cp -r ../pvr.mythtv/pvr.mythtv ./
cp pvr.mythtv.dylib pvr.mythtv/

• Install addon pvr.mythtv with KODI/XBMC

You can copy the folder $HOME/src/build/pvr.mythtv into $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/KODI/addons/. Or load the ZIP file with KODI/XBMC.

Build MythTV addon on Windows

• Install Visual C++ 2013 windows desktop
• Download xbmc-pvr-addons sources from git repository

cd src
git clone -b helix git://github.com/janbar/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++ 2013
• Build it
• To install the addon, copy the folder xbmc-pvr-addons\addons\pvr.mythtv\addon to your KODI addons directory

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 ./config/version
source ./distributions/OpenELEC/options
# may want to change this to different build if you are not building Generic
source ./projects/Generic/options 
source ./packages/mediacenter/kodi-pvr-addons/package.mk

if [ ! -d ./sources/$PKG_NAME/ ]; then
    mkdir -p ./sources/$PKG_NAME/
fi

BRANCH=helix
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/janbar/xbmc-pvr-addons/archive/${BRANCH}.zip

unzip ${BRANCH}.zip
mv xbmc-pvr-addons-${BRANCH} $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION
tar -cJf $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION
rm -r $PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION ${BRANCH}.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  $PKG_URL > ./sources/$PKG_NAME/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.xz.url

rm -rf ./build.OpenELEC*/.stamps/$PKG_NAME ./build.OpenELEC*/$PKG_NAME-* \
 ./build.OpenELEC*/image/.stamps/$PKG_NAME

• Continue with regular build instructions (PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 make release)