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 git. Go to http://code.google.com/p/git-osx-installer

• Now open a terminal console and clone the tool chain repository to build addon. Below the tool chain is installed in the folder $HOME/src

mkdir src ; cd src
git clone git://github.com/janbar/xbmc-pvr-toolchain-osx.git

• Clone the xbmc-pvr-addons sources from git repository inside the tool chain

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

• Optionally you can choose the branch you want to build. By default master branch is checked out

frodo branch

cd xbmc-pvr-addons ; git checkout frodo ; cd ..

master branch

cd xbmc-pvr-addons ; git checkout master ; cd ..

• Build it. You have to be in the root folder of the tool chain

make

• Install addon pvr.mythtv.cmyth with XBMC

The builder create a new folder pvr.mythtv.cmyth containing the addon. You have to copy it into $HOME/Library/Application\ Support/XBMC/addons/. Also you can zip it to be uploaded with XBMC as zip file.

• You can rebuild the addon at anytime using command make. To completely clean up the tool chain, type make distclean.

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)