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Kodi/XBMC pvr backend plugin for MediaPortal's TVServer
http://www.scintilla.utwente.nl/~marcelg/xbmc/tvserverxbmc.html
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TVServerKodi might not work with MediaPortal 2.2.3 #23

Closed dominicsayers closed 4 years ago

dominicsayers commented 4 years ago

I'm a tech professional, but a bit of a n00b when it comes to MediaPortal and Kodi, so you can take what I say here with a big pinch of salt :-)

  1. I installed the current version of MediaPortal 2: v2.2.3. All seems well.
  2. I installed the current version of TVServerKodi (v1.23.0.143) using these instructions
  3. Yes, I restarted the MediaServer 2 Server service twice as instructed.
  4. I disabled the Windows 10 firewall

I couldn't get my Kodi instance on another computer to see the TVServerKodi service on port 9596 of the MediaPortal computer.

I ran nmap locally on the MediaPortal computer and there was no open port on 9596.

I don't know which logs to look at to see if there was any startup issue but I did do some Googling and it seems there is a fairly tight coupling between MediaPortal versions and this plugin. It seems to be aimed at MediaPortal v2.2.2 so I'm not surprised if it has issues with a later version. I see a similar issue when v2.2.2 was released: https://github.com/margro/TVServerXBMC/issues/22

I wonder if you'd had a chance to test the plugin with MediaPortal 2.2.3?

atgr24869 commented 4 years ago

I seem to have read that MediaPortal 2.2.3 has reverted the TV Server API to the 2.2.1 version. Try installing the TVServerKodi for 2.2.1 ... let me know ...

dominicsayers commented 4 years ago

I'll give this a try and report back. Thanks @atgr24869.

I think it's bad that breaking changes only get a revision number change. Hardly semver.

dominicsayers commented 4 years ago

OK, I tried v1.21.0.141 of the DLL as @atgr24869 suggested and had more success. My Kodi machine can now see the MediaPortal TV server and is showing the EPG as expected.

My one remaining problem is that the TV stream itself for the selected channel is not getting to the Kodi box. I will assume this is a different issue (maybe a firewall blocking the RTSP port or something)

Thanks for the advice!

dominicsayers commented 4 years ago

(for posterity I'm noting that the stream wasn't appearing because I hadn't configured the SMB username and password correctly for the MediaPortal server - fixed now)