How do I make PVR Work?

I not having much luck. What would you regard as the best way to install pvr function not going to use windows, I think I would go live route but if someone could point me in the direction of good guide, I have looked on the forum, and there seem to be many options, any pointers appreciated

Paul

There seems to be no clear step by step setup.
Each package seems to have it's own issues.
Did you get passed the Mysql login problems?

I finnally got my win7 mediaportal backend going.
Got past the mysql problems.
Found this forum, and the latest xbmc pvr release.
Got the mediaportal ffmeg plugin to work.
Now working on the scheduler and xmltv.
Still can't get the record button to work, but step by step I'm getting there.

Where are you stuck, or did you give up?

I'm trying to get a new Windows 7 Ultimate 64 system setup for PVR also.

After installing MediaPortal, and going through the Configuring TV-server, I'm stuck at the MySql test also. I get the "Host 'mywindowsmachine' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server" error message.

Thinking I may need to do the GRANT commands...

mysql -u root
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password = PASSWORD('mediaportal') WHERE User = 'root';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mediaportal';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
exit

Not sure, have to wait till tonight to try again.

I did download mysql-essential-5.1.56-winx64 instead of the 5.1.38 that media portal was trying to download during installd (kept hanging...) is this my problem?

Any input appreciated.

Uninstalled and re-installed everything. When configuring the TV Server this time, i didn't even see that same window. Got live tv working in XBMC now, still need to get the EPG going. Hopefully more time to play this evening...

sorry, can't help you with mediaportal, only with xbmc-pvr itself or the tvheadend addon.

No worries. Just thinking out loud really, in case anyone else is going through the same thing.

joebrady Wrote:Uninstalled and re-installed everything. When configuring the TV Server this time, i didn't even see that same window. Got live tv working in XBMC now, still need to get the EPG going. Hopefully more time to play this evening...

Good to hear that live-tv is working now. For EPG, enable it first inside the "MediaPortal TVServer configuration" tool. When it is working in Mediaportal itself, it should also work within XBMC.

Yea, after reading today, I figured that was the step I missed too.

I do have one question for the future, if you happen know. Will there be any way to update the EPG, without an internet connection(OTA)?

Depends on the EPG source. My EPG information comes together with the digital TV signal (DVB EPG), so I don't need an internet connection for EPG. You can download and cache Web-based EPG (XMLTV) often for more that a full week.
I'm using also MC2XML for EPG information which gives me EPG info for a full week.

I got it up and running. XBMC live tv and epg via mediaportal and a hdhomerun tuner on win 7 64bit.

I don't see the channel icons inside xbmc, they are however present in the mediaportal client.

Does anyone here know what I need to do to get the icons shown just as on this screenshot:

http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~marcelg..._watch.png

I also tried the Python video plugin version on my old original xbox. I can actually see the channels and current programs running, but then I try to start a stream it says that the channel is scrambled which it isn't.