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Michael Brehm edited this page Dec 24, 2018 · 37 revisions

General

Configures general PVR behavior settings

Setting Description Default
Use network broadcast for device discovery When set to ON the PVR will use a UDP broadcast to discover devices on the local network instead of requesting the information from the cloud-based backend OFF
Pause discovery tasks while streaming Does stuff OFF
Prepend channel numbers to channel names Does stuff OFF
Use season/episode number as title for recordings Does stuff OFF
Trigger recording discovery immediately after playback When set to ON a Recording discovery will be initiated after any Live TV or Recorded TV stream has ended OFF
Use backend genre string(s) in Electronic Program Guide (EPG) Does stuff OFF
Prepend season/episode number to episode name in EPG Does stuff OFF
Show DRM protected channels in channel lineups When set to ON channels marked as DRM-protected by the HDHomeRun tuner device(s) will still be listed in the Kodi channel lineups OFF
Use channel names from tuner device(s) in channel lineups When set to ON the channel names reported to Kodi will be the names provided by the HDHomeRun tuner device(s) instead of the backend EPG data OFF
Delete expired date/time recording rules after Does stuff 1 Day

Discovery Intervals

Specifies the amount of time between refreshes of the PVR data

Setting Description Default
Devices Does stuff 5 Minutes
Channel Lineups Does stuff 10 Minutes
Electronic Program Guide (EPG) Metadata Does stuff 1 Hour
Recordings Does stuff 10 Minutes
Recording Rules Does stuff 2 Hours
Recording Rule Episodes Does stuff 2 Hours

EDL

Configures Edit Decision List support

Setting Description Default
Enable Edit Decision List (EDL) support for Recorded TV Does stuff OFF
EDL file path Does stuff NOT SET
Start time padding (milliseconds) Does stuff 0
End time padding (milliseconds) Does stuff 0

Advanced

Configures advanced PVR settings

Setting Description Default
Stream Live TV channels directly from tuner device(s) Does stuff OFF
Startup discovery task delay (seconds) Does stuff 3
DVR stream read operation minimum size 1 Does stuff 4 KiB
DVR stream read chunk size 2 Does stuff 4 KiB
DVR stream ring buffer size Does stuff 1 MiB
Disable discovery of HDHomeRun RECORD devices When set to ON any HDHomeRun RECORD devices detected on the local network will not be used by the PVR OFF

1 Applicable to Kodi 16 "Jarvis" and Kodi 17 "Krypton" only

2 Applicable to Kodi 18 "Leia" only