[kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50

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> From: Colin Mackay <zixiekat at gmail.com>
>To: KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> 
>Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2015 9:49 PM
>Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] 8-bay OTA antenna - $50
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> ... There were some streaming addons for a while, most notably Canada on Demand, which isn't maintained any longer.  I can get Discovery Canada, Food Network Canada and HGTV Canada via plugins for Kodi or Plex.  Plex runs as a server and can stream stuff over a web connection, or to clients, like PleXBMC for Kodi.

IIRC, there are plugins to download, not just stream. Don't remember if they were Kodi or Plex plugins. Or perhaps MythTV plugins to something somewhere. (Seems/ed MythTV was decreasing effort on their front end in favour of something else working just as well [Kodi?], and focusing on the back end. Which may now have streaming, for all I know. Let alone VLC with its streaming and UPnP capabilities. I've so lost track of what does what, with what, interacting how ...)

Downloading would make it into a PVR (and schedulable). Presumably you make the destination Kodi's favourite place, and the downloads appear like any other content.

How many addons, where, with what magic incantations ... I no longer remember. Especially since I don't trust streaming / haven't been impressed with it in my environment. Never mind fast forward (black screen / no sound), captions, etc.

Doesn't help that google drowns you, outdated links and instructions, and so on. A K-W resident expert that blogs accurate and brief instructions on kwlug.org would be welcome. Even if the blog only says ... go {here} to the real blog.

Not outing Charles here ... the ecosystem above is far more than just Kodi, and confusing as all heck.