[RELEASE] MythBox for XBMC - a MythTV Front-end Python Script for XBMC

Ok, simple simple...

I copied some mythtv recordings to a thumb drive and found to my embarrassment that my keys were missing. From what I can tell if I add the keys a pop up comes up asking me to update where upon the keys are lost. I repeated this cycle at least twice until is sunk in.

So, raspbmc can play back mythtv videos. Next I'll have to try to mount a NFS share. But I've run out of time for the moment. In the mean time I still get the "name" resolution ERROR in my /var/log/xbmc.log file:

Quote:Host backendmachine could not be mapped to a backend. Returning master backend localhost.localdomain instead.

Is the streaming just not going to work then? Or is there something I can do to get rid of this error? I am sure I entered an IP into mythbox when setting up the mythbox/mysql screen. I don't know where it got the name my myth master backend server. Ideas?

-thanks

MythBox is far superior to the current PVR frontend functionality in the 12.1 Frodo release of XBMC. I appreciate you taking the time to keep it running. I searched the forum, but didn't find a definitive answer to this question: Is commercial skipping currently working/supported by MythBox? I am currently running XBMC 12.1, MythTV Backend 0.26, cmyth 1.6.9 (Mythtv PVR plugin), and the latest version of your plugin downloaded via the "zip" button from github. MythBox doesn't allow me to "Play + Skip" the recorded programs I have (that button is greyed out). It says comm flag is "None" when looking at the recorded program information. Mythweb confirms commercials have been flagged in these programs, and mythutil --getskiplist also confirms that there are Commerical Skip Lists for these programs. Is there something I am missing, or is this a known issue?

(2013-04-02 16:40)apippin Wrote:  MythBox is far superior to the current PVR frontend functionality in the 12.1 Frodo release of XBMC. I appreciate you taking the time to keep it running. I searched the forum, but didn't find a definitive answer to this question: Is commercial skipping currently working/supported by MythBox? I am currently running XBMC 12.1, MythTV Backend 0.26, cmyth 1.6.9 (Mythtv PVR plugin), and the latest version of your plugin downloaded via the "zip" button from github. MythBox doesn't allow me to "Play + Skip" the recorded programs I have (that button is greyed out). It says comm flag is "None" when looking at the recorded program information. Mythweb confirms commercials have been flagged in these programs, and mythutil --getskiplist also confirms that there are Commerical Skip Lists for these programs. Is there something I am missing, or is this a known issue?

MythBox has been around for a lot longer than the PVR frontend functionality, so I'm not surprised that it's more mature. But the new Myth PVR add-on does have an active community working on it and I expect the holes in functionality to be fixed fairly soon. One missing feature in the PVR functionality is commercial skipping, but it has now been implemented in git, but probably won't be available until XBMC 13.0 at least at this stage. That said, I'm still using Mythbox for day-to-day, and beta-testing the PVR functionality in parallel, so as to help them get up to speed, so it would be good to keep Mythbox going until the mainline PVR functionality is at least on par with Mythbox.

(2013-04-02 21:09)fiveisalive Wrote:  

(2013-04-02 16:40)apippin Wrote:  MythBox is far superior to the current PVR frontend functionality in the 12.1 Frodo release of XBMC. I appreciate you taking the time to keep it running. I searched the forum, but didn't find a definitive answer to this question: Is commercial skipping currently working/supported by MythBox? I am currently running XBMC 12.1, MythTV Backend 0.26, cmyth 1.6.9 (Mythtv PVR plugin), and the latest version of your plugin downloaded via the "zip" button from github. MythBox doesn't allow me to "Play + Skip" the recorded programs I have (that button is greyed out). It says comm flag is "None" when looking at the recorded program information. Mythweb confirms commercials have been flagged in these programs, and mythutil --getskiplist also confirms that there are Commerical Skip Lists for these programs. Is there something I am missing, or is this a known issue?

MythBox has been around for a lot longer than the PVR frontend functionality, so I'm not surprised that it's more mature. But the new Myth PVR add-on does have an active community working on it and I expect the holes in functionality to be fixed fairly soon. One missing feature in the PVR functionality is commercial skipping, but it has now been implemented in git, but probably won't be available until XBMC 13.0 at least at this stage. That said, I'm still using Mythbox for day-to-day, and beta-testing the PVR functionality in parallel, so as to help them get up to speed, so it would be good to keep Mythbox going until the mainline PVR functionality is at least on par with Mythbox.

Well said, I couldn't agree with you more. Your explanation around the XBMC PVR frontend makes a lot of sense. But what about MythBox's ability to support commercial skipping? Is it tied to the PVR frontend's ability to skip commercials, or is this something that should just work on its own in MythBox? I'd like to know if it's an issue on my end given the configuration I am running, or if it is just not supported yet given my configuration.

I have been trying to use mythbox as my main PVR but I am finding it likes to stop playing videos randomly, especially toward the end of some files. I have to go to the Myth PVR to watch the shows but I loathe the Myth PVR add-on because of all the features it lacks compared to Mythbox. I dont know what version I am using and I can't tell what version is on posted on github. it doesnt say the mythbox version when I view enabled add-ons in XBMC

I have to say nothing in xbmc comes close to the native mythfrontend.

I've recently set up a Raspberry Pi with Raspbmc and MythBox.
I'm a newbie in Raspbmc and MythBox but have used MythTV a while.
- The settings for the MySql-database are tested and ok.
- The license keys for mpeg2 is set
- Live-TV works fine

...but when I try to watch the recordings in the next "Recordings" submenu, I'm stuck with a Error message "Error:on click, Xbmcgui.listitem object at 0xXXXXXXX" where XXXXXXX are different numbers for each recording.

Does anyone have a solution for this? Or an idea about how I can fix it?

Regards

Tarburner@Sweden

MythTV 0.24