realh / logi

A web-based PVR

Logi

The latest incarnation of my attempt to write a PVR with a decent UI.

Status

At the moment it does very little except scan for terrestrial channels but, unlike most other software, it has full support for the UK Freeview service. It compromises between scanning the entire spectrum and using a set of user-supplied tuning data, by starting a full scan but aiming to detect when it's gathered data for all channels and stopping early.

To make it useful to other people at such an early stage I've included a script which converts the database to channels.conf for VDR, or outputs a MySQL script for setting the channels numbers in MythTV's database.

Logi uses sqlite3, the database's default location is ${XDG_DATA_HOME:-~/.local/share}/logi/database.sqlite). The table structure is not finalised yet, so for now you should delete any existing database whenever you update the source code.

Roadmap

In expected order of implementation:

• Freesat scanning (much faster than existing scanners)

• Daemon with web interface

• Modern, responsive web UI

• EIT harvesting for EPG

• Multiple ways of viewing EPG in a browser

• Scheduled recordings

• Stream in a format compatible with browsers/mainstream video players

• Kodi plugin.

Usage

Currently only scanning is supported, in the form of two tools in the tests subdirectory (compiled from C++): fvscan for Freeview and fsscan for Freesat.

fvscan takes one optional argument, which is the network name. Usually only one network is available, but you may be able to pick up signals from more than one transmitter. If you don't specify a network name fvscan uses the first it finds.

fsscan takes two optional arguments, bouquet name and region name. The defaults are "England HD" and "South/Meridian S" respectively.

In the extras subdirectory there is a python script called logi-to-other. After running either of the above scan tools the script can be used to either output a channels.conf for VDR, or an SQL script for assigning LCNs to channels in MythTV. For MythTV you must run itws own scanner first. Run logi-to-other --help for more information.

Licence

GPL3. The standard COPYING file is included.