A script to turn Kodi with TVHeadend into a fully automated DVR

Turn your system into a fully automated TV recorder. It's supposed to just work without further interaction with the end users (wife and kids). In fact they should not even notice anything is happening in the background. The system should just silently do it's task, record all the favorite series and movies, remove all the advertising junk, convert everything to a decently compressed format and cleanly add every recording to the movie or series library.

For each of these tasks there's good open source software available. But it is not just a simple download and run. Most needs to be compiled from source and the documentation is incomplete and scattered around the web. Nothing for a beginner at least. Also you have to manually run it on each recorded video. That's very inconvenient and absolutely not acceptable for a family box.

Follow the steps below to set up the necessary software and install a little script to do all the processing. When it's done, you just choose what to record and let the system do all the work for you.