


It runs as its own user “hts” so there is a /home/hts. It runs as a daemon, started out of init.d. I installed the tvheadend piece on cinnamon (ubuntu). I only needed to install the tvheadend piece somewhere, and I put it on cinnamon where the large file media array is, so that PVR recorded material can be stored there too. Since the kodi I watch is on coriander (the mac mini), the pvr stuff is already installed with kodi. Kodi for mac and windows has the pvr bits included, but they have to be added in linux.After the apt install, add-ons->my add-ons->PVR clients, select TVHeadend HTSP Client and configure it, then Activate it. The “kodi-pvr” bits are kodi add-ons that have to be added to kodi (in linux only) in order to provide the api between kodi and the backend. Kodi-pvr-hts-dbg – debugging symbols for TVHeadEnd PVR for Kodi Kodi-pvr-tvheadend-hts – Kodi PVR Addon TvHeadend Hts – PVR API:1.9.2 Tvheadend-dbg – Debug symbols for Tvheadend The tvheadend software has to be installed. There are apparently different backends supporting different hardware, but one of the backends is called “tvheadend”, and it supports HDHomeRun, and is supported by Kodi. To use the built in features in Kodi for “live tv”, you have to have another piece of software, which Kodi calls the “backend”. However, this is just watching, and doesn’t enable the guide, PVR etc. They also provide a Kodi Add-on which allows watching the streamed material directly from there. They provide an app for windows/linux/mac which enables watching the tv stream directly, and changing channels. HDHomeRun provides a source of tv in htsp format.
