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<blockquote data-quote="Mobidic" data-source="post: 1169820" data-attributes="member: 156969"><p>My background is software development. I have been using Windows Media Center for ages. </p><p></p><p>I did take a look at Media Portal years ago and after looking at the steps to install, well... I thought it's not worth my time.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm kind of stuck to take a second look, I want to to access recorded TV from more than one TV, and all extender of WMC are dead, or it's noisy, and take too much energy like XBOX 360.</p><p></p><p>Plex is everywhere, even on my cheap Vizio TV. But it seems that Plex doesn't play live TV recording or TV recording that are not yet fully recorded. Which, is often my use case when watching news.</p><p></p><p>So, I started on January 2016 at the home page at: <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/" target="_blank">https://www.team-mediaportal.com/</a></p><p></p><p>First thing noticed, it seems the latest release is on the 1.x version, so first assumption is that MediaPortal 2 is still an Alpha release.</p><p></p><p>After, reading a lot more, everywhere, and trying to discard old post, and other years old deprecated information, I came to the conclusion that MediaPortal 2 is actually the 'right' version to use, mainly due to this page: <a href="https://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-download" target="_blank">https://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-download</a></p><p></p><p>It has more checkmarks on MediaPortal 2 but maybe it's just a roadmap and it's actually not real. Who knows?</p><p></p><p>I downloaded MediaPortal 2, and finished to install it. </p><p></p><p>The installation put strange icon on my taskbar that seems useless, like one called "MediaPortal Tray Launcher", I don't know if this represent server, client, or whatever, and doesn't have much action on it, except Add/remove from autostart.</p><p></p><p>I try to find the installed software and I don't see it, I'm double checking my alphabet ordering ;-)</p><p></p><p>It doesn't show under MediaPortal, in the Windows menu but instead with "Team MediaPortal".</p><p></p><p>I found the software "MediaPortal 2 TV Configuration", that's must be a good first step!</p><p></p><p>The UI didn't walk me through any installation steps, no wizard, it has lot of links on the root of the contents, the default screen, one is to the documentation but I didn't notice it.</p><p></p><p>My first big mistake, I went to Google, and it gave me a link to what seems to be the official documentation: <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/User:robbo100/3_Alternate_MediaPortal_2/1_Getting_Started_Guides/1_Step_By_Step_Setup/1_Installing_MediaPortal_2" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/User:robbo100/3_Alternate_MediaPortal_2/1_Getting_Started_Guides/1_Step_By_Step_Setup/1_Installing_MediaPortal_2</a></p><p></p><p>I didn't notice this is a link to some kind of old version of the wiki. Then started to follow the steps...</p><p></p><p>I should have click the help icon in the top right of the software, at least I would have the right documentation.</p><p></p><p>Best link is: <a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2/1_Getting_Started/2_Installing_MediaPortal_2" target="_blank">http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2/1_Getting_Started/2_Installing_MediaPortal_2</a></p><p></p><p>I start to read this, first thing you see under 'MediaPortal 2 - What's New' are Alpha 1, and Alpha 2, so it seems MediaPortal 2 is Alpha 2 after all.</p><p></p><p>The first steps of installation is about requirements, like installing .Net Framework 4.5.1 full, the link provided is dead.</p><p></p><p>But anyway, it said that the latest installation was taking care of it automatically, great!</p><p></p><p>Then I read all the documentation, and no mention of TV recording.... what's the next step to get TV recording to work?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mobidic, post: 1169820, member: 156969"] My background is software development. I have been using Windows Media Center for ages. I did take a look at Media Portal years ago and after looking at the steps to install, well... I thought it's not worth my time. Now, I'm kind of stuck to take a second look, I want to to access recorded TV from more than one TV, and all extender of WMC are dead, or it's noisy, and take too much energy like XBOX 360. Plex is everywhere, even on my cheap Vizio TV. But it seems that Plex doesn't play live TV recording or TV recording that are not yet fully recorded. Which, is often my use case when watching news. So, I started on January 2016 at the home page at: [URL]https://www.team-mediaportal.com/[/URL] First thing noticed, it seems the latest release is on the 1.x version, so first assumption is that MediaPortal 2 is still an Alpha release. After, reading a lot more, everywhere, and trying to discard old post, and other years old deprecated information, I came to the conclusion that MediaPortal 2 is actually the 'right' version to use, mainly due to this page: [URL]https://www.team-mediaportal.com/mediaportal-download[/URL] It has more checkmarks on MediaPortal 2 but maybe it's just a roadmap and it's actually not real. Who knows? I downloaded MediaPortal 2, and finished to install it. The installation put strange icon on my taskbar that seems useless, like one called "MediaPortal Tray Launcher", I don't know if this represent server, client, or whatever, and doesn't have much action on it, except Add/remove from autostart. I try to find the installed software and I don't see it, I'm double checking my alphabet ordering ;-) It doesn't show under MediaPortal, in the Windows menu but instead with "Team MediaPortal". I found the software "MediaPortal 2 TV Configuration", that's must be a good first step! The UI didn't walk me through any installation steps, no wizard, it has lot of links on the root of the contents, the default screen, one is to the documentation but I didn't notice it. My first big mistake, I went to Google, and it gave me a link to what seems to be the official documentation: [URL]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/User:robbo100/3_Alternate_MediaPortal_2/1_Getting_Started_Guides/1_Step_By_Step_Setup/1_Installing_MediaPortal_2[/URL] I didn't notice this is a link to some kind of old version of the wiki. Then started to follow the steps... I should have click the help icon in the top right of the software, at least I would have the right documentation. Best link is: [URL]http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/2_MEDIAPORTAL_2/1_Getting_Started/2_Installing_MediaPortal_2[/URL] I start to read this, first thing you see under 'MediaPortal 2 - What's New' are Alpha 1, and Alpha 2, so it seems MediaPortal 2 is Alpha 2 after all. The first steps of installation is about requirements, like installing .Net Framework 4.5.1 full, the link provided is dead. But anyway, it said that the latest installation was taking care of it automatically, great! Then I read all the documentation, and no mention of TV recording.... what's the next step to get TV recording to work? [/QUOTE]
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