How to Install and Setup Renegades Sky FTV EPG

Here is a guide for the installation and setup of the Renegades Sky EPG on your Kodi / XBMC device.

The Renegades have a Facebook Group – XBMC- Help and General Info for all Platforms ..The Renegades – which is a secret group so if you would like to join you would need to PM the admins. The guys you need to PM are Roger or Antony.

A big thanks to Antony, Roger and of course rayw1986 whose FTV Guide has been used for creating this. In the original guide the setup is done on a box so a couple of files are put on a USB stick. I am doing this on a Mac so this will not be in the guide. I am hoping that as I am adding the path you need to delete/add necessary files you will have no issues. But if you do then please feel free to ask.

Once setup you are in for a treat. It’ll take a lot of work but it’ll be worth it in the end.

So if you are ready get yourself comfortable as it is not a short process.

First we need to show hidden files on your device as we will need this later

Select SYSTEM

Select Appearance

You may need to change your settings level here. If you see Basic then click it

Your Settings Level should now be set as Standard. This opens the File Lists section above

Select File Lists

Turn on Show hidden files and directories

Select SYSTEM > File Manager

Select Add Source

Select None

Type the following – http://muckys.kodimediaportal.ml & select Done

Select the box underneath Enter a name for this media Source

Give the source a name. For this example I will call it MD Repo but you can name it anything

Select OK

Go back to your Home Screen & select SYSTEM

Select Add-Ons

Select Install from zip file

Select MD Repo or whatever you named the source

Select MDaddons

Select plugin.video.mdwizard-1.0.7.zip

Wait for Add-on enabled notification

Go back to your Home Screen & select PROGRAMS

Select Mucky Ducks Wizard

Select CUSTOM FTV GUIDE

Select INSTALL FTV GUIDE AND OTHER ADDONS REQUIRED & wait for the add-ons to install

Select OK

Reboot. Important or it won’t work
Select PROGRAMS

Select Mucky Ducks Wizard

Select CUSTOM FTV GUIDE

Select RENEGADES FIRST RUN SETTINGS

Select YES

Select OK

Select the 2 dots at the top to go back a screen

Select RENEGADES ADDONS2.INI UPDATE DAILY. Antony updates this daily, so it is recommended that you do this step each day to keep the INI file up-to-date.

Select YES

Select OK

Select the 2 dots at the top to go back a screen

Select RESET FTV DATABASE

Select YES

Select OK

Go back to your Home Screen & select PROGRAMS

Highlight – DO NOT SELECT – FTV Guide

Open the Context Menu & select Add-on settings

In Source select addons.ini file

A window will now open and you will need to navigate to the script.ftvguide directory. The location for this is different for each OS so I will add the path for each OS here

OS X:

Home folder > Library >Application Support > Kodi > userdata > addon_data > script.ftvguide

Windows:

press the back space button 3 times until you see your hard drive > C: > users > your user name > appdata > roaming > xbmc > userdata > addon_data > script.ftvguide

OpenELEC:

storage > .kodi > userdata > addon_data > script.ftvguide

Android:

External Storage > Android > data > org.xbmc.kodi > files > .kodi > userdata > addon_data > script.ftvguide

Linux:

~ > .kodi > userdata > addon_data > script.ftvguide

When you are in the script.ftvguide directory do the following

Select addons2.ini

Select OK

Installing the Channels

Select PROGRAMS

Select FTV Guide

Let TV Guide load

The easiest way to start assigning channels is by doing the following:

Select a channel

Select Choose stream

Select Addons

Scroll through the add-ons to find a suitable addon to use. The addons.ini file that has been created will only include the add-ons that you have downloaded using this guide.

Scroll through the channel list to find the corresponding channel

To check if the add-on stream is working select Preview stream

You will now see a preview of the channel

Select Save if everything is OK

You must now repeat this for EVERY channel. Occasionaly you will select a channel and the guide will show a message saying two add-ons have this channel; select the add-on you prefer and assign the channel.

You will not be able to assign every single channel as the add-ons don’t have all the channels. What is recommended is to find streams for the missing channels and then save them as a favourite. You can then assign a favourite to a channel by doing the following