Ok so I've been a Kodi/XBMC user for over 10 years from the original Xbox days. Running on a FireTV and using a Synology to stream all my videos, I am fairly happy. I hardly ever watch anything on mobile, nor do I use consoles or whatever.
Now, recently I started using an IPTV provider and looovve what they offer. M3U playlist for all their channels, VOD and good (enough) EPG. Getting that into Kodi also works fine through either the Simple or iVue guide. Personally I've been using a combination of 3 things (convoluted I know):
- Their Kodi addon to access the VOD content
- Perfect Player to access the Live IPTV content
- STBEmu to access the Catch up through the EPG guide
Although the above is likely not ideal, it still works. But what I miss is the ability to easily record content so I can watch shows at my convenience without relying on whether it's part of their catch-up.
So I've been exploring Myth, TVHeadEnd and Emby to do the automated recording of shows. I can't get Myth working on my Synology, TVHeadEnd was a mess (authentication issues, EPG problems and more importantly it fails to retrieve the IPTV channels (blocked?)).
Long story, but this brings me to Emby. It works in terms of IPTV and EPG. But how good is the Premiere stuff considering my use case? All I really care about is Series recording. How well does that work and how do I best pull that into Kodi?
Thanks in advance!