As it stands now they have a quad DVB-T2 tuner, I guess what I’m asking is which backend works best / and has the most user friendly front end, from what I gather this varies on Kodi. Ideally EPG data would be downloaded over the air, unless the backend can download it for free. Kodi is a free and open source media player application developed by the Kodi Foundation, a non-profit technology consortium. Kodi is available for multiple operating-systems and hardware platforms, featuring a 10-foot user interface for use with televisions and remote controls.

Hey everyone!
Let me start off by saying this has been an awesome community, it has helped me get my first Pi3 up and running with Kodi and OSMC. I have live TV working through a network connected HDHomerun Extend.

What is Live TV, PVR and Radio? Live TV, PVR and Radio refers to the traditional broadcast systems.
The NextPVR backend provides services such as tuner setup, live tv and recording. For a frontend client, you can either use the built in UI, or you can install alternative clients listed below.

I am having two “issues” I would like to solve. I have already search and couldn’t find exactly what I was looking for:

I keep getting this popup every time OSMC starts that says:

No PVR add-on enable
You need a tuner, backend software, and an add-on for the backend to be able to use PVR. Please visit kodi.wiki/view/PVR to learn more

I have double and triple checked the Live TV settings and while I could not find an “enable/disable” option, all options are set a default and I haven’t changed anything. The HDHomerun add-on works fine with the live TV (I do not have any PVR or DVR functionality setup as I don’t need that) which is what I am currently using. Any ideas?

I know there are a million threads on here about runnings scripts after boot. And I even read the OSMC wiki page about doing so, but all I want to do is to have the HDHomerun add-on automatically start after OSMC finishes booting. That is all is use OSMC for, I don’t use any of the other functions so it would be ideal for it go right into that so the Live TV would just start.
I tried looking for the /etc/rc.local file in the .kodi directory but there was no “etc” folder or “rc.local” file. I tried adding it but it is not working. Any help in this are would also be very much appreciated.

Thank you! I appreciate your time in responding! Le the know if I need to provide anything else!

Live TV and PVR Setup Guide:

PVR

Recording software

Tvheadend

Tvheadend is a popular open source TV streaming PVR backend (TV tuner and DVR recording server) software application for Linux supporting DVB-S(2), DVB-C(2), DVB-T(2), ATSC, IPTV (UDP/HTTP), and Analog video (V4L) as input sources. Tvheadend it can be used as a PVR backend of Kodi. Version 3.4 and later of Tvheadend include support for timeshifting (pausing of Live TV).

1 Overview

Tvheadend, formerly named 'HTS Tvheadend', was previously part of the HTS (Home Theater System) software suite before it spun of into its own project for it as a dedicated PVR backend software product.

By levering existing third-party PVR backend applications such as Tvheadend that specialize in receiving television signals and support a client–server model which Kodi can access via a PVR client addon, these PVR features allows you to watch Live TV, listen to radio, view a EPG TV-Guide, schedule recordings and enables many other TV related features, all using Kodi as your primary interface once the initial pairing connection to Tvheadend have been done and and configuration of the PVR client addon for it is complete.

2 Preinstalled options

The following Kodi/OS distributions come with Tvheadend already installed, or easily installed as an option. These are great one-stop solutions that can greatly simplify the installation of the backend, as well as various other benefits unique to those distros.

LibreELEC - LibreELEC is a JeOS implementations for Kodi that comes packaged with the Tvheadend backend software and a Tvheadend Kodi PVR add-on.

3 Installing Tvheadend

Basic: Most Debian and Ubuntu installations can take advantage of the standard APT installation methods for getting Tvheadend installed, either using a GUI package manager, or from the command line using 'apt-get install tvheadend'. The install procedure normally creates a user named 'hts', which is the user Tvheadend will run as. You should check that the 'hts' user has sufficient permissions to your tuner (usually /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0). Running the command 'sudo adduser hts video' should be sufficient.

For more info, see: https://tvheadend.org/projects/tvheadend/wiki/Download

Tuner Backend Software Kodi

Raspberry Pi: The easiest way to get Tvheadend on the Raspberry Pi series is to use LibreELEC, or a other JeOS implementations for Kodi. You can also use the Arch Linux ARM instructions below if you are using Arch Linux ARM on a Raspberry Pi.

Arch Linux: See: HOW-TO:Install Tvheadend on Arch Linux

(including PogoPlug)

Synology NAS: You can install Tvheadend from the Syno Community repo through the DiskStation Manager: http://www.synocommunity.com/repository

4 Tvheadend quick start guide

This section is probably outdated. Please use an alternative guide such as this for now.

Note: This is just the most basic steps needed to get a signal from your PVR backend to Kodi. This guide probably doesn't include everything you will want to do, like name channels, get the electronic programming guide (EPG/TV guide) set up, remove channels, etc.

For help with those features see #Additional guides and links.

Kodi Turner Backend Software Download