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<blockquote data-quote="Mat Walker" data-source="post: 1302534" data-attributes="member: 148753"><p>Thanks guys. Ok, spent the (whole) weekend on this lol.</p><p></p><p>First; TVHeadend/Kodi.... Nah. Given up on that - 'non-tech'; its horrible. 'Tech' - a few reasons but mostly that it is buggy. It is actually a real shame as it does have potential and promises a lot (<em>was great to have Kodi on my phone and be able to watch live/recordings etc</em>). However, delivery is patchy - doing searches, for example, seems to have been written with only the person coding it in mind rather than making it usable. And as for recordings (<em>especially series etc</em>) bugs/usability/weirdnesses all converge to make it 'mission-impossible'.</p><p>So, the TVHeadend/Kodi thown out.</p><p></p><p>I did look at other front ends that can hook up to TVHeadend (<em>Including NextPVR - which again, on paper, looked like the 'dogs bo***cks'. I gave up when it started trying to force me use non-OTA EPG stuff; probably a bug</em>) but none come even close to MP's delivery.</p><p></p><p>As for W7... Tried mutiple installs; doing things slightly differently etc (<em>H/W all okay - including UBS ports - and compatible; just had to get a NIC driver seperately</em>). Problem is the install of the updates (<em>all over the place and no nice all-in-one to just install all at once etc</em>) and poor old MP just kept falling over (<em>I didnt investigate - from experience, if MP falls over it tends to be for very valid reasons and better to rebuilt machine to make nice rather than try and fiddle with MP to make it work</em>). And anyway, it would not have been sustainable as any bit blowing up (<em>cpu/motherboard/memory/etc</em>) would mean an end as getting new old stuff would be impossible.... :-(</p><p></p><p>So, looks like I'm sticking with MP(1- thanks CyberSimian about MP2; yeah, does look like it is a repo deperately looking for a dev or 2 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ), and so having to use the W10 'thing' (<em>my personal view - XP was the best and it started going down hill after that. Seems to be trying to be all things to all users now and failing miserably. If it wasn't for MSWord/Excel I'd have jumped ship a long time ago; and worked for MS many moons ago! lol</em>).</p><p></p><p>Will try and build bloatfree(ish - as much as possible) W10's and see if this 'kiosk mode' will help shut it up so it just runs MP client's without wanting attention from me/us every two minutes.... Looks like, after dabbling with the dark side, I'm coming crawling back to MP with my tail between my legs lol. Funniest thing is I now have 8 tuners (<em>and only 5 FreeToAIr muxes lol. Trying to get my 2 Haupagge dual-turner PCI cards to work with TVHeadend looked to be too fun-and-games so got a HDHomeRun quatro lol</em>)!!</p><p></p><p>And.... Just a last point. The folk on MP forum are a lot friendlier. Not quite so on the Kodi/etc forums - where they do tend to be populated by 'net nannies' and 'knowledge merchants' (<em>oh, what!, Why dont you know that? Are you stupid?! Anyway xyz functionality is not Kodi, it is the plugin, learn to use it before asking stupid questions...</em> That sort of forums.). MP forum lurkers do tend to 'suffer fools' a lot better, and that really helps noobs and those not quite as techy as others. Thankyou <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite11" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll Eyes :rolleyes:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mat Walker, post: 1302534, member: 148753"] Thanks guys. Ok, spent the (whole) weekend on this lol. First; TVHeadend/Kodi.... Nah. Given up on that - 'non-tech'; its horrible. 'Tech' - a few reasons but mostly that it is buggy. It is actually a real shame as it does have potential and promises a lot ([I]was great to have Kodi on my phone and be able to watch live/recordings etc[/I]). However, delivery is patchy - doing searches, for example, seems to have been written with only the person coding it in mind rather than making it usable. And as for recordings ([I]especially series etc[/I]) bugs/usability/weirdnesses all converge to make it 'mission-impossible'. So, the TVHeadend/Kodi thown out. I did look at other front ends that can hook up to TVHeadend ([I]Including NextPVR - which again, on paper, looked like the 'dogs bo***cks'. I gave up when it started trying to force me use non-OTA EPG stuff; probably a bug[/I]) but none come even close to MP's delivery. As for W7... Tried mutiple installs; doing things slightly differently etc ([I]H/W all okay - including UBS ports - and compatible; just had to get a NIC driver seperately[/I]). Problem is the install of the updates ([I]all over the place and no nice all-in-one to just install all at once etc[/I]) and poor old MP just kept falling over ([I]I didnt investigate - from experience, if MP falls over it tends to be for very valid reasons and better to rebuilt machine to make nice rather than try and fiddle with MP to make it work[/I]). And anyway, it would not have been sustainable as any bit blowing up ([I]cpu/motherboard/memory/etc[/I]) would mean an end as getting new old stuff would be impossible.... :-( So, looks like I'm sticking with MP(1- thanks CyberSimian about MP2; yeah, does look like it is a repo deperately looking for a dev or 2 :) ), and so having to use the W10 'thing' ([I]my personal view - XP was the best and it started going down hill after that. Seems to be trying to be all things to all users now and failing miserably. If it wasn't for MSWord/Excel I'd have jumped ship a long time ago; and worked for MS many moons ago! lol[/I]). Will try and build bloatfree(ish - as much as possible) W10's and see if this 'kiosk mode' will help shut it up so it just runs MP client's without wanting attention from me/us every two minutes.... Looks like, after dabbling with the dark side, I'm coming crawling back to MP with my tail between my legs lol. Funniest thing is I now have 8 tuners ([I]and only 5 FreeToAIr muxes lol. Trying to get my 2 Haupagge dual-turner PCI cards to work with TVHeadend looked to be too fun-and-games so got a HDHomeRun quatro lol[/I])!! And.... Just a last point. The folk on MP forum are a lot friendlier. Not quite so on the Kodi/etc forums - where they do tend to be populated by 'net nannies' and 'knowledge merchants' ([I]oh, what!, Why dont you know that? Are you stupid?! Anyway xyz functionality is not Kodi, it is the plugin, learn to use it before asking stupid questions...[/I] That sort of forums.). MP forum lurkers do tend to 'suffer fools' a lot better, and that really helps noobs and those not quite as techy as others. Thankyou :oops::rolleyes: lol [/QUOTE]
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