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Background: U.S. Windows Media Center user since Vista. Has 2 MC extenders working perfectly. But want to change to Kodi ecosystem.
list of must features:
1. 100% free.
2. As reliable as WMC
3. Windows 10 based
4. Timeshift during and after recording
5. Record series but new only
6. Disk quota management (delete old recordings, if no more space)
7. Little management
In short, I want all the features of WMC but with Win10. Is it infeasible and am I too ambitious?
I did some research on Argus, NPVR and Emby but each comes a little short. Perhaps I read outdated posts and now they are fixed. I'm willing to spend hours researching, tinkering and setting up the whole system.
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Acegolfer, I've tried in vain to reply to your private message, I believe my forum account isn't old enough. I wanted to let you know that my experience with NextPVR/Kodi didn't end well. I wanted to keep this in a private message as I don't mean to sound unappreciative of the hard work the open sourcers are doing, but I simply had way too many bugs/work arounds, and the experience was still no where near as nice as WMC.
I do have a solution that may work for you, try e-mailing me through my profile. I can respond to e-mail, I assure you!
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My solution is a workaround to get WMC working in Windows 10. Figured this might be frowned upon so I was going to keep it hush.
Sent from my XT1049
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The main problem you glanced over is "U.S. based". Is it a cable TV, if yes is your media center using CableCard ? If yes, are your channels marked as "copy-freely" ? If not, then you probably won't have any other solution than HDHomeRun Prime as far as i know, but i leave that to US based people.
In Europe it is simple. You get DVB-C/T/T2/S/S2 tuner depending on your signal, and then add a CA module (if your provider sells/rents one) to decode your channels.
My personal choice would be MediaPortal - it is open source, reliable, runs on any Windows, it can record & timeshift at same time, it has quota system.
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I think mediaportal may do that, its what I use. I find mediaportal slow, easily broken and requires workarounds for basic functionality (like reliably running at startup) but nothing else seems to he the features I want.
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If your OS is Windows then I can deffently recommend DVBLogic, it covers all of your requirements apart from point 1, it's not free...49Euros which is what, $55? I personally came to the opinion that as much as the open source apps are good in terms that they are free! Having a PVR that works straight out of the box with "commercial support" and that met all my requirements was well worth the investment.... They have a 20 day trial so give it a bash....
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@AshG: it has no CableCard support, which is the reason people from US used Windows Media Center so much.