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I am testing NextPVR. Very nice web interface. I have 2 DVR instances on
my local network (NextPVR and HDHomerun). To exist peacefully, I have
subnetted 4 hdhomerun tuners off the raspberry pi running NextPVR. The
hdhomerun record engine has no visibilty to this subnet. The NextPVR
instance can see 8 hdhomerun tuners (4 on subnet 4 on local net).
Fortunately, NextPVR allows me to disable the 4 tuners on the local
network, thank you developers.

NextPVR going from idle to one tuner in use, always selects tuner 1. This
leaves 3 tuners idle. With NextPVR idle, I fire up smplayer and connect
to NextPVR's subnetted tuner 1. Using Kodi, I ask NextPVR to stream a
channel. AFter a pause (20 seconds), Kodi says there has been a failure
and suggests I read the log. I grabbed a copy of the kodi.log and a copy of
nrecord.log. kodi.log gave scant insight. However, nrecord.log had several
instances (13) of '[ERROR][17] 804 Tuner In Use'.  I was suprised to see
NextPVR give up without trying one of the 3 idle tuners. Am I missing
something?
As my membership will attest, I am new to this forum, perhaps in need of
some guidance. Not sure about attaching log file. I have it if it would
help.

NextPVR on raspberry pi is 'Version: 6.1.1.221106'. Raspberry pi is
RPI4b (4GB) running 'bullseye 32 bit'. I get the EPG for NextPVR via
my HDHomerun DVR subscription 3 times a day.

There is a regression in v6 NextPVR and it doesn't try all tuners, it loops on the first non allocated tuner. I don't understand why it picks tuner1 though, for recordings it should start at tuner0 and for live TV it should be tuner3 unless you have reversed the priority in config.xml

Martin

Thank you for your quick reply. I found config.xml, but I did not know what to look for. To my knowledge I have not tweaked config.xml. However, in kodi, I have set live TV method to 'Timeshift', This is an essential part of testing: How many streams can NextPVR:RPI combo play with 2 minute timeshift?

Timeshift won't impact which tuner is selected.

Your testing will tell you how many clients you can have, timeshift is not specifically i/o intensive. I'd use a larger buffer two minute pause isn't much.

Martin