service.pvr.manager

Addon for 'PVR Timer- and Powermanagement' for Kodi on x86 based hardware. This addon turns your vanilla Kodi on a Linux installation (pure Linux, Kodibuntu, Open-/LibreELEC) into a full featured video recorder.

This addon handles poweroff management for current active recordings and wakeup procedures for future schedules using the JSON-RPC-Interface of Kodi. The addon starts and shut down the htpc if a recording is scheduled. It delivers optional Emails via SMTP if an automatic scheduled Recording ended successfully.

The plugin starts the system periodically on an user defined cycle and time for e.g. EPG-Updates too if there is a longer inactivity time of the system or user.

Some installation notes

1. THIS ADDON WORKS ONLY ON x86 BASED HARDWARE AS IT WRITES WAKEUP INFORMATIONS INTO THE HARDWARE (BIOS) RTC. IT DOESN'T WORK ON AML NOR ARM BASED HARDWARE (ANDROID BOXES, RASPBERRY OR SIMILAR HARDWARE)

2. YOU KNOW WHAT A TERMINAL CONSOLE IS AND YOU ARE ABLE TO USE IT.

3. THIS ADDON USE ACPI-WAKEUP OVER RTC. YOUR MAINBOARD MUST SUPPORT THIS PROPERLY. NOTE THAT IN YOUR APM-SETTINGS OF YOUR BOARD THE RTC WAKEUP SHOULD BE SET TO ‘by OS’ OR ‘disabled’. YOU CAN ALSO USE A SPECIAL USB REMOTE CONTROLLER 'Y.A.R.D.2'. IF THIS IS CHOOSEN, THE RTC OF Y.A.R.D.2 IS USED.

4. THIS README USES kodi AS THE DEFAULT USER. IF KODI IS RUNNING WITH A DIFFERENT USERNAME, CHANGE ALL OCCURENCES OF /home/kodi/ TO /home/yourusername/ IN YOUR PATHNAMES/NAMES.

Installation

1. Install this Addon from ZIP or from Repository

2. If You are using OpenElec/LibreElec/CoreElec, the following step isn’t necessary. Skip to step 3.

   All others: As the shellscript ‘shutdown.sh’ is a wrapper to poweroff the system, it needs root privileges to run properly. We make it possible that ‘shutdown.sh’ runs under root/sudo privileges without needing to type in a password:

   sudo visudo
   

   add at the end of the file:

   Cmnd_Alias PVR_CMDS = /home/kodi/.kodi/addons/service.pvr.manager/resources/lib/shutdown.sh
   kodi ALL=NOPASSWD: PVR_CMDS
   

   Store your changes (CTRL+O, CTRL+X)

3. Change your remote.xml to point the pvrmanager-addon when "Power" on remote is pressed. If you don't have a remote control you can also define a special key on your keyboard as power button (here as example F12).

   Create a remote.xml if it doesn't exists (Gotham and up):

   nano ~/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml
   

   or (OpenELEC/LibreELEC):

   nano /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/remote.xml
   

   and copy/paste following code into the editor:

   <keymap>
       <global>
           <!-- This is the keyboard section -->
           <keyboard>
               <f12>XBMC.RunScript(service.pvr.manager,poweroff)</f12>
           </keyboard>
           <!-- This is the remote section -->
           <remote>
               <power>XBMC.RunScript(service.pvr.manager,poweroff)</power>
           </remote>
       </global>
   </keymap>
   

4. Store (CTRL+O, CTRL+X), restart Kodi and enjoy!

5. Y.A.R.D.2

You have to make sure that your System knows the path to the yard2wakeup executable. Insert this line into the .profile file in your user folder:

nano ~/.profile

and add

 PATH="$PATH:$HOME/yard2

In this case $HOME/yard2 points to the installation folder of yard2wakeup. On *Elec this could be /storage/yard2

ADDITIONAL FOR EXPERTS

If you want to add a hook to the shutdown menu of kodi (this changes the behaviour of the power button), edit the ‘DialogButtonMenu.xml’ (or similar) in the xml part of the skin addon and look for a xml tag like (note the <onclick>Powerdown()</onclick> inside here):

    <item>
        <label>$LOCALIZE[13016]</label>
        <onclick>Powerdown()</onclick>
        <visible>System.CanPowerDown</visible>
    </item>

and change this to:

    <item>
        <label>$LOCALIZE[13016]</label>
        <onclick>Powerdown()</onclick>
        <visible>System.CanPowerDown + !System.HasAddon(service.pvr.manager)</visible>
    </item>
    <item>
        <label>$LOCALIZE[13016]</label>
        <onclick>RunScript(service.pvr.manager,poweroff)</onclick>
        <visible>System.CanPowerDown + System.HasAddon(service.pvr.manager)</visible>
    </item>

Don’t forget to store. Remember that you have to repeat this when the skin has updated.

Please send Comments and Bugreports to [email protected]

HINT: If your OS is OpenELEC/LibreELEC you have to turn off ‘Shutdown requires admin privileges’ as OpenELEC/LibreELEC doesn’t need sudo! This should be done automatically in most cases.