MythTV dead?

[carleycr]

I have HDhomerun prime and FreeNAS 9.3 in my home. I've been highly considering getting rid of Windows Media Center on my Windows 8.1 HTPC and setting up a backend PVR for a low power Kodi frontend like raspberry pi 2 or nvidia shield box.

My question to the community is, is it still worth it, as it's now been almost a year since an update was done. I notice it's also not an available plugin via freenas 9.3 as it was with 9.2 which gives me the impression it's no longer supported to run on 9.3.

What are other alternatives I can run on my FreeNAS server that are just as good. I want to have have the PVR functionality of course, but just as important, have an EPG. I am really not wanting to do a VM of windows 8.1 running WMC as that would be way more taxing on the server.

Thanks for any feedback/input.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

mythtv was never available as a freenas plugin.

i think some have used tvheadend in a jail with hdhomeruns on freenas, but I haven't personally.

 

[carleycr]

mythtv was never available as a freenas plugin.

i think some have used tvheadend in a jail with hdhomeruns on freenas, but I haven't personally.

My bad, I thought I remember seeing it at one point, but I must have seen something else PVR related. Good to know, I've heard of it tvheadend. That being said, is no one using any type of PVR for live tv? I'm assuming people just use HULU for this instead?

I do use sickrage and SABnzbd which work great, but do have difficulty getting some shows.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

My bad, I thought I remember seeing it at one point, but I must have seen something else PVR related. Good to know, I've heard of it tvheadend. That being said, is no one using any type of PVR for live tv? I'm assuming people just use HULU for this instead?

I do use sickrage and SABnzbd which work great, but do have difficulty getting some shows.

I personally use a kodi plugin for live sports.
SickRage+sabnzbd&transmission gets anything current for me.

I had no idea hulu did live streaming.

 

[ify]

There is a new app on kodi for the hdhomerun if you wanna ditch wmc. The only thing is you won't be able to get the drm channels as Kodi isn't a licensed platform at least not yet. Check it out you might like it.


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[carleycr]

I personally use a kodi plugin for live sports.
SickRage+sabnzbd&transmission gets anything current for me.

I had no idea hulu did live streaming.

You mind me asking which add on for live sport? I would care more about NCAA sports. HULU doesn't do live streaming to my knowledge, but I believe you can watch current seasons/episodes the day after they air.

 

[carleycr]

There is a new app on kodi for the hdhomerun if you wanna ditch wmc. The only thing is you won't be able to get the drm channels as Kodi isn't a licensed platform at least not yet. Check it out you might like it.


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I do know there is a kodi plugin for the hdhomerun. I don't want to loose recording capabilities though. I don't think any channels I watch are drm protected, so not too worried about that. I think my best bet right now is to wait for SiliconDust to release their android tv PVR solution and just get a nvidia shield android tv console. Will serve all my needs to replace htpc and move that PC to office. With of course added benefit of nvidia grid game stream from PC to shield tv! Sorry, didn't mean to get off topic.

 

[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

You mind me asking which add on for live sport? I would care more about NCAA sports. HULU doesn't do live streaming to my knowledge, but I believe you can watch current seasons/episodes the day after they air.

sports devil, you'll also want the acestreams/sopcast/p2pstreams plugin because certain streams require that.

 

[ify]

I do know there is a kodi plugin for the hdhomerun. I don't want to loose recording capabilities though. I don't think any channels I watch are drm protected, so not too worried about that. I think my best bet right now is to wait for SiliconDust to release their android tv PVR solution and just get a nvidia shield android tv console. Will serve all my needs to replace htpc and move that PC to office. With of course added benefit of nvidia grid game stream from PC to shield tv! Sorry, didn't mean to get off topic.

But if you have sick beard doing its job why would you need to record, I guess unless your recording some live events maybe, I can see that. I wonder if wmc works with windows 10?



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[Joshua Parker Ruehlig]

But if you have sick beard doing its job why would you need to record, I guess unless your recording some live events maybe, I can see that. I wonder if wmc works with windows 10?



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any live event I've ever wanted to watch shows up on Usenet within a few hours.

 

[diedrichg]

I have HDhomerun prime and FreeNAS 9.3 in my home. I've been highly considering getting rid of Windows Media Center on my Windows 8.1 HTPC and setting up a backend PVR for a low power Kodi frontend like raspberry pi 2 or nvidia shield box.

My question to the community is, is it still worth it, as it's now been almost a year since an update was done. I notice it's also not an available plugin via freenas 9.3 as it was with 9.2 which gives me the impression it's no longer supported to run on 9.3.

What are other alternatives I can run on my FreeNAS server that are just as good. I want to have have the PVR functionality of course, but just as important, have an EPG. I am really not wanting to do a VM of windows 8.1 running WMC as that would be way more taxing on the server.

Thanks for any feedback/input.

Emby just announced a few days ago that they have produced a new custom back-end and front-end PVR and they specifically mention your tuner card as being supported. You should take a serious look at Emby. You can then install the "Emby for Kodi" plugin and have an experience not dissimilar from WMC.

 

[ify]

I have HDhomerun prime and FreeNAS 9.3 in my home. I've been highly considering getting rid of Windows Media Center on my Windows 8.1 HTPC and setting up a backend PVR for a low power Kodi frontend like raspberry pi 2 or nvidia shield box.

My question to the community is, is it still worth it, as it's now been almost a year since an update was done. I notice it's also not an available plugin via freenas 9.3 as it was with 9.2 which gives me the impression it's no longer supported to run on 9.3.

What are other alternatives I can run on my FreeNAS server that are just as good. I want to have have the PVR functionality of course, but just as important, have an EPG. I am really not wanting to do a VM of windows 8.1 running WMC as that would be way more taxing on the server.

Thanks for any feedback/input.

I just checked out emby, that might be the way to go if you want to get rid of wmc and its integrated with kodi. Pretty neat


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[OLKent]

I have HDhomerun prime and FreeNAS 9.3 in my home. I've been highly considering getting rid of Windows Media Center on my Windows 8.1 HTPC and setting up a backend PVR for a low power Kodi frontend like raspberry pi 2 or nvidia shield box.

My question to the community is, is it still worth it, as it's now been almost a year since an update was done. I notice it's also not an available plugin via freenas 9.3 as it was with 9.2 which gives me the impression it's no longer supported to run on 9.3.

What are other alternatives I can run on my FreeNAS server that are just as good. I want to have have the PVR functionality of course, but just as important, have an EPG. I am really not wanting to do a VM of windows 8.1 running WMC as that would be way more taxing on the server.

Thanks for any feedback/input.

You might want to consider Emby TV. It supports the HDHR Prime natively and just requires a schedulesdirect subscription ($25/annual). It will give you access to Live TV with a PVR from just about any platform you can think of (except Kodi ironically - should be coming though).

Send me a PM if you want to connect to my server and check it out. You just need to sign-up for an Emby forum account and PM your account username. http://app.emby.media