The HD HomeRun itself handles "ownership" of tuners. From its point of view it's first come first served, but once a tuner has been grabbed by a specific connection it is unavailable to other users until that connection is dropped, so it will never get changed out from under you.
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+...@gmail.com> wrote: > aldo albanese wrote: >> I'm glad that this post is asking more questions about cablecard, Mythtv >> and etc. I did not want to go off the topic of linux too much. > > I consider MythTV, Kodi, etc. to be on topic for BLU as they all run on > Linux. But you will reach an audience with more expertise with those > projects on their respective mailing lists and forums. > > >> My understanding is that Mythtv uses the stream file from HDHomerun >> and it pass it along to Kodi. > > I thought that MythTV had a tuner driver that could talk directly to the > HDHR over Ethernet. It didn't rely on a third party tool to stream the > video to a file. > > Once the HDHR is set up as a tuner in MythTV, a MythTV client (there are > several) add-on for Kodi I would expect to stream live video from it > using the MythTV protocol, just as it would with any other tuner type. > > >> I was thinking to mount the recording directory to >> Qnap and stream from there... > > According to: > http://kodi.wiki/view/HDHomeRun > > there is direct support (via add-ons) in Kodi to view streams directly > from HDHR tuners without involving any other computers or intermediary > files. > > I'm not sure how conflicts are handled when MythTV and Kodi both compete > for available tuners on the HDHR. It may be first-come first-served, or > there may be no protection preventing you from flipping channels on a > tuner in Kodi that MythTV thinks it is using for a recording. > > >> It needs to pass the wife acceptance (The hard part)... > > After you've owned a DVR for a while, the appeal of live TV (except for > news, and sports ball, if you're into that) diminishes. I hardly ever > attempt to use live streaming from my MythTV server. If I want live TV, > I switch to the cable box. > > -Tom > > -- > Tom Metro > The Perl Shop, Newton, MA, USA > "Predictable On-demand Perl Consulting." > http://www.theperlshop.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss