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Weatherman: I have not added the code to fetch the icons and thumbnails yet from MythTV so it will only work if xbmc and mythtv is on the same computer.
deadite66: The add-on does not yet handle if the connection is lost to the backend so that most likely explains the increase in cpu utilization (this also includes suspending the computer running xbmc).
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fiveisalive: the PVR branch is just my attempt to merge the code that are not specific to the myth-tv add-on with dushmaniacs PVR code. It should make it easier for me to push my changes to his fork.
At least TVHeaded and Media Portal supports more complicated recording rules like recording new episodes of a TV show although not as extreme as MythTV. It would be nice to have it in the main PVR branch but I guess it should be highly customizable to support the differences between the backends. I'm currently working on updating the addon GUI code so I can show a custom window. It would be nice if xbmc PVR handled it instead.
It is a good suggestion with the recording screen but it may take a while before I have time to look at it though.
glst0rm: It looks like the boost library is not installed or installed wrongly.
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Awesome work! This looks really promising. I have been using mythbox for a while but this is much better integrated :-)
Right now I also have some epg issues. In the channel view only a few channels show data. The timeline shows data for all channels but the blocks are not at the correct position and some shows are even missing. I live in germany UTC+1 so it could be related to a timezone problem. The details show the correct start/end times.
I'm not sure whether this should be fixed already. If you need more info, i could provide you some logs.
Another thing that comes to my mind is the priority handling between live tv and recordings. If live tv is blocking a recording mythfrontend shows a dialog and lets the user choose. with xbmc the recording gets just skipped without any notification. Do you plan to support this?
In addition there are 2 mythtv settings related to this. One is "LastFreeCard" or "Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows". The backend will then return the last available tuner for live tv. The other option is "LiveTVPriority" or "Allow live TV to move scheduled shows" that allows the scheduler to use some other tuner for the recording. Those options are evaluated by the backend but set for each frontend in the mythtv database. Unfortunately it seems that they are ignored when using xbmc as frontend.
Any idea how we can get the backend to read them from the database?
Cheers
Christian