"Chris Elvidge"  wrote in message
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> On 11/12/2018 13:29, R.Wieser wrote:
>> Jan,
>>
>>> I tried several different DVB-T USB sticks, all work,
>>
>> I've been thinking about using my pi as a PVR [1] for a while, but have
>> no
>> experience with any of it.   Next to that I currently still have an
>> analog
>> cable signal, but that could change to a digital one in the (near - a
>> year
>> or two perhaps) future.
>>
>> [1] For recording, but if possible also for replay.   Not necessarily at
>> the
>> same time though.   It will mostly be used for time-shifting purposes.
>>
>> I'm at a loss to what I should be looking at (possible problem areas),
>> and
>> even if I can make a choice which will work for both analog as well as
>> digital (or if its wise to want that ...).
>>
>> In other words, I'm looking for a solution which works "out of the box"
>> (so
>> I can see that it actually works - I do not want to have to fight a fight
>> I'm not sure I can win (because of stuff being incompatible) ), but still
>> allows me to program against / modify it (like being able to remote in to
>> set capture times, or see which movies have been recorded, write my own
>> program to control stuff, etc - I've already been looking at KODI/XBMC
>> info,
>> but am not sure if I like its "plugin" system)
>>
>> Do you have any ideas, hints and/or site links ?
>>
>> Additional info: I'm living in the Netherlands, which uses PAL.
>
> OSMC. You will probably have to manually add TVHeadend frontend. Works
> here with DVB-T and DVB-T2. Recording, timeshift, pre-recorded video,
> music etc. https://osmc.tv


I just use TVHeadend without the OSMC or Kodi front end. It seems to do a
good job. The only thing that is a bit poor is the EPG, which lists events
sorted by channel and time, rather than displaying them as a grid (time on
horizontal axis, channels vertically). You probably need OSMC/Kodi for the
grid. There's talk about adding a grid interface to the web interface of
TVHeadend as an alternative to the list. I've learned to live with the list
EPG, typing in a programme title to find it.

You *may* find that the Pi is OK for playing, though you will almost
certainly need to buy an MPEG decoder module for a few pounds/Euros, because
the one that is built into Raspbian is very slow.

I can send you the notes I made when I was configuring TVHeadend: it's not
quite plug-and-play, but I've got it to work - I had to re-do all my work
when my Pi suddenly stopped booting and all the obvious solutions didn't
help so I had to start from a fresh installation of Raspbian. Having got
everything set up, I've now saved an image of the SD card so I can go back
to that state more easily if it's ever necessary.

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