I've gotten a MythTV addon to build within the OE development system. I've attached the packages used to build MythTV 0.25 and Qt 4.8.1, upon which Myth depends. My starting point for building Qt was the scripts provided by the folks developing Bino for openelec -- many thanks. I've made changes to that package which means this addon probably can't both be compiled on the same system as the bino addon.

I was able build an ION x86_64 myth package for r10534 on a Debian Squeeze 64bit system. I couldn't get a Generic i386 version to build. I almost certainly broke Qt cross-compilation while trying various things, but then again I can't build Generic i386 OE images either, so YMMV.

So please try building and using this package, but at your own risk. By which I mean not only that it may delete all your information and set fire to your TV, but that I doubt I will have time to maintain the addon. So even if it works, you risk having an addon that breaks and stays that way if I don't have time to fix it. Hopefully someone else will.

It's surprising that XBMC doesn't have a polished native Myth client. (Yes, I know there's been a lot of work put into tsp42's libcmyth client, it's still far from the point where I'd turn it over to my wife).

If you previously used the MythFrontend 0.24.1 addon, and don't have a custom lircrc, you'll need to delete the /storage/.lircrc symlink as the addon location is different. And if sound works in XBMC, but not myth, you may need to set up a dmix device to allow them to share your audio device, as suggested there.

Good luck.

Ah this is great, I just wish there was a version for my i386 generic OE install I'm not well versed up in compiling so wouldn't know how to fix the issues. I currently use the Mythbox plugin which is ok, but by no means a match to the native mythtv client.

I'm surprised more people don't run this combination rather than faffing around with all these half-working TVheadend solutions I see. I tried that it and it was terrible, the backend code just isnt as maintained and polished as mythtv.

touchstone! thanks for looking into this.

so true, sadly

I'll have a go at this, but I'll try to swap out for 0.24ish, don't think 0.25 is xbmc friendly quite yet.

bummer about not gettin 32bit to compile. I'm using a custom genereic 64build just to use you addon

Maybe it doesn't compile in 32bit because you're on a 64 system. Virtual machine in 32bit maybe?

Anyways, thanks for re-evaluatnig for eden! Much appreciated!

I think an addon Myth 0.24.3 will build just by changing the PKG_VERSION and ADDON_VERSION variables in packages/addons/multimedia/mythtv/meta accordingly. I don't think it needs the gcc 4.7 patches like 0.24.2 and 0.25 do. If it does, try renaming the patch for 0.24.2 in the patches directory accordingly.

As for building in a 32-bit VM, sounds like a good idea. Let us know how it goes.

compiled for 0.24.3

good work man! It was pretty straightforward and it's ripe for the unofficial repo

But why not make this a video addon?

my compile goes into programs?

would the 0.25 addon work for a 0.25 backend?

would post the zip file but it's too large..

any easy mediafire-ish providers nowadays?

Audio works OOTB with this (for me going to a reciever) :

ALSA:plughw:0,7

How about signing up for a dropbox account and uploading it there, then sharing that file out on a public URL.

Is you compile compatible with i386 Generic?