Kodi 18.8 "maybe all tuners are in use" error message

[Bigx5murf]

I'm running kodi 18.8 on win10, and installed the latest HDHomeRun from github. The official standalone HDHR client on win10 works perfectly. But trying to run the HDHR add-on in kodi gives me the error message "maybe all tuners are in use".

My device is an older dual model.

Anyone know where I can start on troubleshooting?

The following is what I pulled from the log file.

2020-09-20 03:17:29.925 T:19496 NOTICE: VideoPlayer::OpenFile: hdhomerun://103D3081/ch521000000-3
2020-09-20 03:17:29.925 T:6444 NOTICE: Creating InputStream
2020-09-20 03:17:29.926 T:6444 WARNING: XFILE::CFileFactory::CreateLoader - unsupported protocol(hdhomerun) in hdhomerun://103D3081/ch521000000-3
2020-09-20 03:17:29.926 T:6444 ERROR: CVideoPlayer::OpenInputStream - error opening [hdhomerun://103D3081/ch521000000-3]
2020-09-20 03:17:29.926 T:6444 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::OnExit()
2020-09-20 03:17:30.037 T:19496 NOTICE: CVideoPlayer::CloseFile()
2020-09-20 03:17:30.037 T:19496 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: waiting for threads to exit
2020-09-20 03:17:30.037 T:19496 NOTICE: VideoPlayer: finished waiting
2020-09-20 03:17:33.123 T:20300 NOTICE: VideoInfoScanner: Starting scan ..
2020-09-20 03:17:33.588 T:11984 WARNING: Attempt to use invalid handle -1

[NedS]

The Kodi add-on won't support the older DUAL models. It might be possible if the older HDHomeRun protocol ever gets added back to Kodi as a binary add-on, but in its current form, Kodi doesn't support the protocol used by the DUALs.

[Bigx5murf]

Are the latest devices the only ones supported by the latest kodi? Will they be rendered useless by future kodi updates as well?

[NedS]

Are the latest devices the only ones supported by the latest kodi? Will they be rendered useless by future kodi updates as well?

Generations 1 and 2, and OTA gen 3, only support an older API. These models are known as the DUAL models (as well as a single tuner version of gen 1/2). Cable gen 3, OTA gen 4, and gen 5, use an http-based API that virtually everything supports, and doesn't even need HDHomeRun-specific support.