Inside Kodi, at least for me, in an in-progress recording, I can pause, go backwards for replay and forward after a pause. The only ability that I currently do not have is the ability to start a recording if I am watching a live program or set a timer/pass from the EPG.
Rob
I have not tried the latest version, but as of yesterday when I started watching an in-progress recording I could only watch it. I could not pause or fast forward. This is using Kodi on a Windows 10 machine and using a Synology 918+ for the DVR.
Do we need the InputStream add-on? I have that installed from my PSVue app. PSVue required it to allow for in-progress controls.
Rob
I just tried the latest version and I still cannot pause or skip forward on a recording in progress. I added to InputStream add-on and still no luck.
Example if show is recording we will say 1 hour show and I begin watching at 30 minutes into recording playback will start at beginning but I can not fast forward. Expected behavior would be that I can start watching at 30 min in and manually skip through commercials.
Edit -- Also currently can not pause a in progress recording either only option is to stop playback. This is Linux versions x86_64 and armhf in case others are working.
Grouping is working well now. Thanks!
@tmm1 Little follow up to my emails. I have been experiencing a bug causing kodi to crash and channels add-on fails to load after reboot primarily on my odroid arm based kodi players. This bug seems to be related to the way that Live_TV buffering / caching has been implemented in the add-on for timeshifting of Live_TV. My odroid players have a limited amount of flash storage and when playing a channel for extended time the flash storage becomes full and kodi crashes time frame seems to vary depending on channel anywhere from 1 hour to several hours. Because the channel is not changed or playback stopped the buffer files just keep accumulating. I have found well over 100 64MiB buffer files in the add-on's directory for just 1 hour of Live_TV playback for a OTA channel.
This has also caused a hard crash where kodi will only restart in safe mode because the profiles.xml was empty due to failed writes when storage was full. As you are probably aware all the writing and erasing is going to severely limit the life of flash storage.
Can you please move the buffer or cache for Live_TV timeshift directly to the DVR Server?
Doing this will correct the bug in devices with limited storage, extend the life of my flash based storage, and allow new features like moving the current buffered show to recordings if the user decides they would like to save the show that was being watched as Live since the buffer would be on the DVR and not the client.
edit -- When the clients storage is full and kodi freezes or crashes this is what happens on the DVR
2019/11/20 10:44:02 [WRN] Buffer for 10505F4D ch18.1 is more than 50% full (clients=1, len=16777684)
2019/11/20 10:44:07 [WRN] Buffer for 10505F4D ch18.1 is more than 75% full (clients=1, len=25165868)
2019/11/20 10:44:10 [WRN] Buffer for 10505F4D ch18.1 is more than 95% full (clients=1, len=31877468)
2019/11/20 10:44:11 [WRN] Buffer for 10505F4D ch18.1 is more than 99% full (clients=1, len=33219788)
Can someone tell me how to install this on my FireStick 4K? I have Kodi 18.5 installed and I have downloaded both of the latest ARM (not sure which is correct) versions to the Download folder on the FireStick. When in Kodi, I try to install addon from zip and select either version, in the download folder, I just get an immediate Failed to install addon message.
You have to use the android builds.
Ahh...saw I need the ARM version, just wasn't thinking about the ARM version of the Android build. Thanks
Im having this same issue with my shield. I have 16GB with only 3 being used for apps & I can only watch 4-5hrs of TV before it fills my storage with hundreds of 2 minute videos. Please fix this guys, its not usable like this. Other than this issue I love the addon
Latest release v2019.11.22.1947
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Thanks, you're the best!
Thank you, This will work as a temporary fix until buffer can be implemented on the DVR. At least I hope the time shift buffer will be moved to the DVR.
It would essentially be the same thing as time shifting an in progress recording. Speaking of that is there any progress on time shift for in progress recordings?
ok new user here, can i use this in 2 different locations?
If you mean in your home then yes I use it on five TV's and two computers. If you mean outside your home then somebody else may need to answer because I have not tried.
Thank you channels for developing this. I just installed this on kodi and I love it!!
SO, is there a setting I have to set so the add-on updates the library after recordings are completed. I can do a manual update and everything shows up, but It does not seem to auto update. I read about a 15 minute update, but that does not seem to work. Kodi 18.5 on Win 10 and the latest add-on from Channels.
Thanks
Rob
Is it in the plans to be able to set recordings from this addon? I know you can watch your recordings, but unless i'm doing something wrong you're unable to create recordings within the addon
Yes it is in the plans for the future