[WIP] PVR Client Addon for XBMC for EPG and full control of Dreambox and DBox2

(2012-05-25 21:48)lbonache Wrote:  Hello someone can put the latest version for linux.

thanks

I have just updated the first post (actually the 2nd) of this thread with download links the current version...

Cheers,

Joerg

I just discovered XBMC PVR along with this add-on, and it's awesome... Thanks a lot jdembski for the great work!

I wonder if you shouldn't rename your add-on to reflect that it's working well beyond the VU+ scope... It's more an Enigma PVR!

For now I tried it using my win7 laptop (a Dell Precision M4400) through Wifi with my DM500HD, and it's working very well for HD channels, switching channels very quickly and far more nice/easy to use than the built-in tuxbox client or other dreambox add-ons...

The only drawback I found for now is the inability to see the channels groups (bouquets) and switch easily/consistently between them, but this is not related to the add-on!

Now I wonder what would be the best hardware to run this, Apple TV3 (if jailbroken)? Any other?

(2012-05-28 00:18)soussef24 Wrote:  I just discovered XBMC PVR along with this add-on, and it's awesome... Thanks a lot jdembski for the great work!

I wonder if you shouldn't rename your add-on to reflect that it's working well beyond the VU+ scope... It's more an Enigma PVR!

For now I tried it using my win7 laptop (a Dell Precision M4400) through Wifi with my DM500HD, and it's working very well for HD channels, switching channels very quickly and far more nice/easy to use than the built-in tuxbox client or other dreambox add-ons...

The only drawback I found for now is the inability to see the channels groups (bouquets) and switch easily/consistently between them, but this is not related to the add-on!

Now I wonder what would be the best hardware to run this, Apple TV3 (if jailbroken)? Any other?

Great to hear that it is working well for you!

You can switch between bouquets by clicking on the TV label when in the livetv view (the left menu in confluence where you can also switch to radio channels, EPG, timers, recordings etc.)

I intentionally renamed the addon from enigma to vuplus because I heard that dream multimedia is sueing people for using the name enigma - and because I really don't like the attitude of some dreambox-only plugin developers I chose a name that has nothing to to with dreamboxes...

But maybe you are right and I should rename it to something else...what is the name of enigma2's open source version nowadays?

Sincerely I'm also a bit lost in naming of Enigma stuff... My DM500HD is using a "build" called newnigma2, but as I understood, there are several "builds" based on Enigma, and I don't think naming your addon after any of them makes more sense than naming it after VU+...

What about Tuxbox PVR? My only concern is to get your very nice addon the attention is deserves

(2012-05-28 17:51)soussef24 Wrote:  Sincerely I'm also a bit lost in naming of Enigma stuff... My DM500HD is using a "build" called newnigma2, but as I understood, there are several "builds" based on Enigma, and I don't think naming your addon after any of them makes more sense than naming it after VU+...

What about Tuxbox PVR? My only concern is to get your very nice addon the attention is deserves

I think tuxbox is actually enigma1 - and the addon does not work with enigma1 devices. Or do I misunderstand the tuxbox/enigma stuff right now?

Please delete. Haven't read the above post all the way. Sorry.

Hi, i have just setup an xtreamer ultra2 to use xbmc on xbmcbuntu and this addon. Everything is working great except that I get the message "Cannot initialize audio device" whenever i switch live channels and hence no sound is heard. Movies and TV shows play ok and sound is heard as expected. I have sound output set on optical out on a 7.1 dts receiver.

Any ideas on whats wrong?

(2012-05-29 13:25)chrischr Wrote:  Hi, i have just setup an xtreamer ultra2 to use xbmc on xbmcbuntu and this addon. Everything is working great except that I get the message "Cannot initialize audio device" whenever i switch live channels and hence no sound is heard. Movies and TV shows play ok and sound is heard as expected. I have sound output set on optical out on a 7.1 dts receiver.

Any ideas on whats wrong?

You should post this into the PVR Development section - this is nothing the addon can handle...

(2012-05-28 18:44)jdembski Wrote:  

(2012-05-28 17:51)soussef24 Wrote:  Sincerely I'm also a bit lost in naming of Enigma stuff... My DM500HD is using a "build" called newnigma2, but as I understood, there are several "builds" based on Enigma, and I don't think naming your addon after any of them makes more sense than naming it after VU+...

What about Tuxbox PVR? My only concern is to get your very nice addon the attention is deserves

I think tuxbox is actually enigma1 - and the addon does not work with enigma1 devices. Or do I misunderstand the tuxbox/enigma stuff right now?

Not sure if Tuxbox is enigma1, my understanding is that "tuxbox" is at the origin of the current enigma... But the default support for dreambox included in XBMC is called Tuxbox Client and it is working for Enigma2, isn't it?

Even if your addon doesn't work for enigma1 devices, I think it maybe ok naming it Tuxbox PVR as long as you mention the limitations. For instance the wiki page for the Tuxbox Stream Client in XBMC mentions "The TuxBox Stream Client will only work with Enigma Based TuxBox images, this includes Dreambox and DBox2! ........."

Know I'm really wondering what hardware I would use to run this...

(2012-03-12 17:36)jdembski Wrote:  Last Update 2012/05/26: Download links to version 0.2.6.

Thanks redknight - I guess you are right and that it makes sense to continue in this thread instead of the thread in the feature request section.

This addon should work for all enigma2 based boxes, both with openwebif or the legacy webif. I personally use it with a VU+ Duo...

Features:
- TV
- EPG-View
- Radio
- Add / Remove Timers
- Recordings
- Multiple recording directories
- channel groups
- Timer
- Automatic Timer Cleanup (configurable)
- "Zap before channelswitch" for Single-Tuner boxes (configurable)
- Picons

Known issues:
- Recording length: Some recordings do not show the correct recording length when being played. They are still play- / seekable, so this is just a cosmetic problem. The problem itself can be reproduces with mainline XBMC, therefore I have opened a bug on the official bugtracker for this.
- Inactive timers: Inactive timers are shown as "active" in the timer overview. Strangely enough when opening the timer-editing dialog they are correctly marked as "inactive"


Links to the current version:
Source-Code: https://github.com/jdembski/xbmc-addon-vuplus
Ubuntu i686 (sorry, I cannot provide a linux 64bit version because my ION machine is running openelec):
http://www.filefactory.com/file/2x3u2d60...6-i686_zip
Windows::http://www.filefactory.com/file/7c3q757w..._6-win_zip

Could you mirror it on any other site? filefactory have been full for several days now for non premium.

Regards

Crall