Hi all,
About to start moving in the cord-cutting direction. Doesn't have to be quickly, but I am thinking within the next few months I would like for it to happen. I currently have an i5 laptop doing HTPC duties. Works great and does everything I want at the moment. All media is kept local to the HTPC on a USB drive. I like this setup and I really have no use case to watch/listen to my media anywhere else anyway. At the moment this is only ripped BD/DVD and my audio collection consisting of mostly ripped CD's. We also stream Amazon, YouTube, Pandora, etc.. off the wireless. All works great. Kodi is used for movie watching when playing something from the local collection.
Next step is to start getting OTA TV and setting up a DVR on the existing HTPC. Forgetting about all the what channels can I get with an antennae stuff, I was under the impression that I could get an external USB ATSC tuner, plug it into HTPC, plug coaxial from antennae into the tuner and magic was going to happen. By magic I mean that Kodi is going to see I have this and display guide info and allow me to start recording, setting up recording schedules, etc.... Am I wrong?
I think I am because after some research last night it appears as though I am going to also have to install something like NextPVR (on the HTPC) and then Kodi will be a client for the NextPVR server? installed on the HTPC.
Is that closer to reality?
Is NextPVR really just going to provide me with the recording options? Meaning if I didn't care about recording would Kodi display the guide info and allow me to browse channels, watch TV, etc... ?
Thanks,
Maiyr
About to start moving in the cord-cutting direction. Doesn't have to be quickly, but I am thinking within the next few months I would like for it to happen. I currently have an i5 laptop doing HTPC duties. Works great and does everything I want at the moment. All media is kept local to the HTPC on a USB drive. I like this setup and I really have no use case to watch/listen to my media anywhere else anyway. At the moment this is only ripped BD/DVD and my audio collection consisting of mostly ripped CD's. We also stream Amazon, YouTube, Pandora, etc.. off the wireless. All works great. Kodi is used for movie watching when playing something from the local collection.
Next step is to start getting OTA TV and setting up a DVR on the existing HTPC. Forgetting about all the what channels can I get with an antennae stuff, I was under the impression that I could get an external USB ATSC tuner, plug it into HTPC, plug coaxial from antennae into the tuner and magic was going to happen. By magic I mean that Kodi is going to see I have this and display guide info and allow me to start recording, setting up recording schedules, etc.... Am I wrong?
I think I am because after some research last night it appears as though I am going to also have to install something like NextPVR (on the HTPC) and then Kodi will be a client for the NextPVR server? installed on the HTPC.
Is that closer to reality?
Is NextPVR really just going to provide me with the recording options? Meaning if I didn't care about recording would Kodi display the guide info and allow me to browse channels, watch TV, etc... ?
Thanks,
Maiyr