PVR-Add-Ons - cmyth - Mythtv plugin

[ikke]

Hi,

I lost the mythtv support from my raspi also after the .27 mythtv came out. Today I tried to fix it, unsuccesfully

So I took the latest openelec, and copied the xbmc-pvr-addons github master branch [1] into it. It's in about version 1.9, which has some fixes for mythtv, and supports the latest .27 protocol. After getting all (cross) compiled in my fedora 20 box, I copied the files over to my xbian. I bluntly overwrote the any files matching '*mythtv*' under /usr/local. I didn't find a way to build it as a separate plugin.

--> this failed due plugin failing to start due glibc missmatch between the xbian and the openelec addons.

Then I saw this post, and thought the gotham alpha version would have recent enough cmyth. I upgraded the xbmc package in xbian just to notice the cmyth in gotham alpha has also too old version of cmyth.

--> failure

Any ideas how to get the cmyth working in Xbian? It's been a while that mythtv .27 has been out there, and also there is likely a working version of the plugins available. Some of the fixes are from this week though. What would it take to get it into Xbian?

Ultimately I could setup the Xbian devel env. with the cross compilers, but it seems quite a job again just to get few binaries. Did you Karen get the binaries compiled from fetzerch github tree, and could you please share them if you did ?

BR,
ikke

[1] https://github.com/fetzerch/xbmc-pvr-addons/tree/master

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now re-reading this topic, I noticed there is some uncertainty about version numbers. Just to clarify:

- mythtv backend has been version .27 since last summer.
- cmyth in Xbian supports only protocol version < .26 of mythtv (and won't work with recent mythtv)
- mythv protocol .27 is not backwards compatible, so Xbian version can not talk to mythbackend
- xbmc-pvr-addon package version in my previous link is about 1.9.something. It speaks .27 protocol

What it would require from someone having Xbian devel env, would be to recompile the xbmc-pvr-addon package for Xbian. Maybe even the easiest to recompile xbmc package with the addon updated before the compile. That's what I did with OpenElec today.

I haven't checked out how much work it is to create a Xbian devel env with cross compilers. I believe it's quite a job starting from zero, and I would like to avoid that if possible.

It should not be an issue in native environment. Doing it in the native env on the other hand would risk my Xbian install, and I don't want to break it. And it's likelyy damn slow.