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I've just taken delivery of a Mutant HD51 and will be setting it all up tomorrow when the HDD arrives. Its going to be a combined IPTV and Freesat PVR box and ideally a KODI HTPC for my media collection (I played about with the media browser plugin, but its not got the features I need in Kodi).
I've been reading both these and the WoS forums and. honestly, I'm a bit lost. There is so much useful info here, but its a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, and being a noob I have no idea what needle I'm looking for.
I've installed Willobuild, but have some questions that I hope you can answer (or point me towards the solution).
1) I've not picked an IPTV supplier yet, but I assume they will tell me how to configure and set up their EPG? Yay or nay? Seems that there are lots of ways of sorting out and arranging an EPG
2) I'm assuming that setting up for freesat should be relatively straightforward, but how do I combine both freesat and IPTV into a single EPG (ie when I click on BBC1 HD it uses the sat feed, but Sly Movies will use IPTV feed)
3) I tried the kodi plugin, and all seemed good until I tried to install my favorite build. It failed immediately as soon as download started saying refer to log file (which didn't tell me anything). I suspect it is because the build is circa 400mb but the Mutant says it only has 140mb free memory. Can I force plugins (or temp files) to use the internal HDD or a USB stick? (I want to use kodi as a media browesr for circa 12TB of media on a separate server, but really like this particular build for its layout and extra addons)
4) Are there any idiots guides for setting these boxes up or am I resigned to scouring hundreds of pages of forums for the thing I need (or asking questions that have been asked before).
5) I read a lot of posts from people who have set these boxes up, got 95% of the way there, but had issues due to an obscure setting, or missing plugin (eg telling the box to store EPG info on a USB drive). Does anyone have any general hints or tips to make my life easier?
6) Is there a noob's glossary of common terms? .m3u, c line, OSCAM, xtream editor, bouquets etc etc
Hope I've posted in the correct forum, but I'll add a similar post in the Mutant and IPTV guides forum directing specialists from those here, just in case they don't read the satellite guides forum. Hope that this is OK.
I've just taken delivery of a Mutant HD51 and will be setting it all up tomorrow when the HDD arrives. Its going to be a combined IPTV and Freesat PVR box and ideally a KODI HTPC for my media collection (I played about with the media browser plugin, but its not got the features I need in Kodi).
I've been reading both these and the WoS forums and. honestly, I'm a bit lost. There is so much useful info here, but its a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack, and being a noob I have no idea what needle I'm looking for.
I've installed Willobuild, but have some questions that I hope you can answer (or point me towards the solution).
1) I've not picked an IPTV supplier yet, but I assume they will tell me how to configure and set up their EPG? Yay or nay? Seems that there are lots of ways of sorting out and arranging an EPG
2) I'm assuming that setting up for freesat should be relatively straightforward, but how do I combine both freesat and IPTV into a single EPG (ie when I click on BBC1 HD it uses the sat feed, but Sly Movies will use IPTV feed)
3) I tried the kodi plugin, and all seemed good until I tried to install my favorite build. It failed immediately as soon as download started saying refer to log file (which didn't tell me anything). I suspect it is because the build is circa 400mb but the Mutant says it only has 140mb free memory. Can I force plugins (or temp files) to use the internal HDD or a USB stick? (I want to use kodi as a media browesr for circa 12TB of media on a separate server, but really like this particular build for its layout and extra addons)
4) Are there any idiots guides for setting these boxes up or am I resigned to scouring hundreds of pages of forums for the thing I need (or asking questions that have been asked before).
5) I read a lot of posts from people who have set these boxes up, got 95% of the way there, but had issues due to an obscure setting, or missing plugin (eg telling the box to store EPG info on a USB drive). Does anyone have any general hints or tips to make my life easier?
6) Is there a noob's glossary of common terms? .m3u, c line, OSCAM, xtream editor, bouquets etc etc
Hope I've posted in the correct forum, but I'll add a similar post in the Mutant and IPTV guides forum directing specialists from those here, just in case they don't read the satellite guides forum. Hope that this is OK.