Getting a full EPG and managing around this is a real challenge for me in NPVR. Something my wife really just does not understand and I was looking to resolve it a bit.
I decided as the Freesat(UK) and DVB options were now pretty mature I would move away from my epgCollector based XML file and just use these. What I have found though is they are not massively consistent.
DVB channels mapped perfectly the first time I did this and I thought I had them cracked at least, however gradually they have dropped off and I now have mostly "no show details" something that really gets my wife's goat ;-) I tried doing a rescan but no dice. Feels like the scan is not being initiated. I will say currently I am still running the EPGCollector bat as part of the updateepg.bat. I have something in one of those bats (can't remember which) that reboots the box following the epgupdate as this keeps it working better. Could this be causing some form of challenge.
As for freesat(UK) again many no show details, though this time I suspect that they don't actually exist in the epg data. Channels like Phoenix scan in the Freesat only scan but don't necessarily have lined up epg I suspect. Is there anyway to find out what channels should have epg but don't?
Really what I'd like is to be able to have an idiot mode that scans DVB-T and Freesat and ensures a fully populated EPG with one version of each channel. It would be great if that would regularly automatically upgrade when channels change.
Any help that you can offer would be good.
Trevor
BTW is the bulk map still broken. If I map with that it just sets every channel to none and I get a totaly blank epg. The only way I can change the epg source is to go down every channel in the list double click and change the source. For 200 channels that gets tedious.... ;-)
Had Windows 10 installed but rolled back to 7.
Needed to reinstall HD PVR drivers and software.
Installed latest version of NPVR.
Everything working ok with Total Media.
NPVR changes channels ok on my STB, but doesn't turn HD PVR on (blue light on top of box not lit).
thanks in advance
ok, so I am looking at getting cable but buidling my own whole house DVR. Spouse is all for cable as we have had 2+ years of OTA but she won't approve of the DIY whole house DVR, I refuse to pay cable company $30 month for equipment lease. Biggest complaint with spouse is not 100% foolproof like a cable system would be. I admit my htpc has been down quite a bit in the last few months... upgrading to windows 10 was the biggest mistake I made...
So my question is:
a) How did you get your spouse to approve
b) how did you setup your system to be as reliable as can be (shooting for 99.99% reliable)
c) what did you use for equipment?
d) what is the best software (kodi, npvr,etc...) to use as the frontend?
I know it is a loaded question but just looking for thoughts...
I currently run an HDHR Dual with a PC that runs NPVR backend. I have a wdmycloud for nas. running windows 8.1 on current "server" pc...
With the current version of ffmpeg (2.8), play time transcoding of both recordings and live TV seems to work pretty well. However, using the ffmpeg filter effectively stops you from using seek within a recording. One way around this would be to restart the stream using the -ss argument to ffmpeg to jump directly to the required place in the stream. I've tested it by modifying <TranscodeArgs> in config.xml and it works very nicely, but for it to be useful, it would need to be able to be set on the fly. Currently the /transcode stream request passes a number of on the fly aguments (source, resolution, bitrate etc). It would be really nice if there were a couple of user arguments that could be used to replace [USERARG] place holders in config.xml.
I have decoders installed on my machine (Divx) But when I go to NextPVR Settings, they do not appear in the drop downs.
Also when I hit the ... (three dots) next to Video Decoder MPEG2 nothing happens
I am therefore unable to setup video decoders?
Any idea how to fix this
I am running Windows 10.
And Next PVR version 3.5.7
I'm running NextPVR 3.5.7 on a Windows 8.1 machine with Kodi Gotham. Still using Gotham due to "features" with the Helix and Issy builds. Using HDhomerun (ant) and HDprime (Comcast cable) for my TV recordings. Using Flirc with my mx-500 remote control, so I am sending keystrokes.
What I am trying to do is have the same keystrokes work in NextPVR that work in Kodi. So I have modified the keymappings.xml file, but I can't get the "." (period) or "'" (single quote) to work for the Skipforward or Skipback. It does nothing.
Also, how about the arrow keys, could those possibly work?
I appreciate any help which might be given.
I am trying to make this as seem-less as possible for me and my wife so we can watch in native NextPVR as well as in Kodi with the same remote setup.
I have HD HomeRun with two ATSC tuners. Both are set up in devices settings. I scanned and have all their channels loaded (I used the function to copy one to the other, but now have individually scanned them, although I can't imagine why that would help). Both have the "Enabled" toggle checked. However, it appears NPVR is only using one tuner.
When I try to record two shows at the same time, either with a full period conflict or with just the padding overlap, I can only record one show. If I eliminate the padding, then shows overlapping now both are in the pending recordings list.
The "recurring recordings" shows all requested recordings, but the pending recordings only lists shows with no conflicts.
The conflicts list is empty - it doesn't indicate there are any conflicts.
The above is not just what it shows, but what actually happens: after a week of the new season, I in fact only recorded shows where there had been no overlaps.
I have been trying to get Next PVR to schedule American Horror Story: Hotel but it won't do it. I originally created a schedule on a standard def channel when an HD channel was available and it showed up in the recurring recordings. Since I wanted the HD channel, I deleted the recurring recording and tried recreating it on the high def channel instead but it would not schedule it. I deleted the recording and tried creating a recurring schedule for all episodes instead of just new epeisode with no success. I then tried recreating the recording on the SD channel with still not luck. Any ideas?
Sub, I don't have many of them, but those (channels DRM protected) that I do are ones I typically watch using WMC. However, when I, accidentally, forget that a channel is protected (or my wife obliviously tunes to one of those channels on NPVR), I am experiencing NPVR lockups that are not easily cleared- particularly by my wife. I am wondering if it would be possible to display some sort of message/indication that a channel is protected and provide a graceful means of escape when this grievous event occurs?
