Hi, I have a question regarding add-ons in CoreElec.
Currently I am using the tvheadend PVR add-on with Coreelec, it works really good. However, because I have two different tvheadend backends I would like to have two different tvheadend clients in Kodi, each one connected to a different backend and running simultaneously.
I achieved this by doing the following:
In /storage/.kodi/addons, copy pvr.hts to pvr.hts2
In /storage/.kodi/addons/pvr.hts2 change add-on id to “pvr.hts2” and name to a different name
In /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data, copy pvr.hts to pvr.hts2
In /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/pvr.hts2, modify settings to connect to another backend
Deactivate and Reactive add-ons from Kodi
The above works fine, but once I restart Kodi I can only see channels from one add-on (pvr.hts2) appearing duplicated. So I believe that the above may not be enough.
Is there any other way or any other modification I should make to run multiple instances of the the add-on simultaneously, and that would work even after a reboot?
That’s a good reason, let’s see if someone can help you out with that. Have you thought of extracting one tvh list as iptv to the other server or using that list in iptv simple client?
@Vasco Thanks. At first I thought of doing that, but discarded it as it could have latency and reliability issues if the server merging the backends goes down. I also want to manage recordings via tvh in case I want to see them with my phone.
Maybe you can like my solution. I have two CoreELEC devices equipped with TV tuners, the main one is at home but the secondary one is 250 km away (different region and language). I use a single TV server, the one at home. The secondary sends the TV channels to the main via minisatip service.
All CoreELEC devices inside and outside the home (servers and clients) are linked by the zerotier service network. Nor do I have any problem of access to TV, multimedia, or remote ssh/sftp configuration of any devide through my tablet or smartphone, for this I use the android apps: zerotier-one, x-plore, connect bot, and kodi.
My custom command in the tvheadend addon on the main server to receive the TV channels sent from minisatip is:
@cubimol@Vasco Tried setting this up like you stated. It does seem to work but the video stream is full of block noise and tvh reports lots of uncontinuity errors…
Could you please share the options you pass to minisatip? @cubimol
I have installed the minisatip service for more than two months and it works very well for me.
If it also works for you, even if it is with errors, it is that you have it well configured. Errors can come from an unreliable and unstable internet connection: mobile network, DSL network, … With a fiber optic internet connection better than 30 Mbps you should have no problem.
This ensures to use Real-Time Transport Protocol (RTP) and Audio-Video Protocol (AVP) for low jitter data transfer, which is essential for streaming. ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_Transport_Protocol).
With standard protocol you may encounter stutter during streaming, but still ok for data transfer of a recording (jitter doesn’t matter).
In my case it is the same to enable or disable RTP/AVP/TCP (embedded data) on the tvheadend server. It always works well. In fact this has to be disabled in another SAT>IP tuner in local network for it to work, but for minisatip it doesn’t seem to be important.
