Help.

I am trying to setup NextPVR With Kodi, and am suffering a number of annoying issues.

a) When running Kodi NextPVR Client I keep getting error - No PVR Clients have been started yet.
- The web server is running and on IE this works find http://127.0.0.1:8866
- I can see guide and view programs.
- I have correctly configured the NextPVR client, but it will not connect ???
What am I doing wrong?

b) I cannot get the webserver to run on Chrome.
the application/x-vlc-plugin seems to be an invalid plugin?
How can I fix this?



I have windows 8.1
Running lasted NextPVR (3.4.8)
Running latest Kodi (15.0)


many thanks

Mark

Installed nextpvr due to wmc not being available with windows 10. Using the TBS satellite card wmc finds most channels. Nextpvr will only find a very limited number of channels on only 2 frequencies. The tbs is connected to a multiswich fed by a Quattro LNB. I am trying to tune in the freesat channels on Astra 2 satellite. As I said wmc works suggesting the hardware is ok.

I cannot seem to get this all to work.

I have been using WMC in Windows 7.1 just fine for months, then, out of the blue, their guide listings stopped updating. I confirmed this with a different computer, a laptop with Windows 7 as well. I tried removing WMC completely, emptying the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome folder all of that, then resetting everything back up like new. NOTHING. So, off I went looking for an alternative. Nothing works.

When I got NextPVR installed, all seemed fine, except, shocker of shocks, the guide listings are blank. I cannot find ANYWHERE to tell it to enable and update. Also, there is no sound with live TV.

I looked at the FAQ here, no help that I could understand.

Could someone please walk me through, step by step, how to get everything setup so that the guide updates and I can set OTA digital channels to record?

Also, what format are the shows recorded in?

I would really appreciate it. Starting miss my daily recorded shows.

I am on normal windows 7.1, HDHomeRun setup via Ethernet and working fine for live TV.

Thanks in advance.

Greetings All!

I've been using Windows Media Center (WMC) for about a year since I pulled the plug on 'cable' and started recording Over the Air broadcasts. I installed two Hauppague 2250 cards giving me four tuners. Despite minor issues, WMC has served me well... until last week... when I learned they changed their EPG provider and discontinued support for WMC in Windows version 10. I'm using Windows 7.

The new EPG provider is substandard and only provided half of the channels in my area, thus the migration to NextPvr with Schedules Direct for the EPG service.

Installing NPVR was trivial. The problem came when using the Hauppague (45 button) remote. With WMC enabled, certain buttons would launch WMC completely making them worthless in NPVR (especially the Live TV, Guide and Recorded Programs buttons). On my computer, disabling the WMC feature also disabled the MCE remote too. That was okay since I wanted to keep an eye on WMC and it also provides an Actor search queue that I haven't seen in NPVR (yet).

By the way, I did reference the wiki to modify c:\windows\Irremote.ini and a few remote configurators.... nothing worked. I saw some interesting comments in the Irremote.ini talking about 'native' calls which could not be modified (or turned off) for WMC. I suspect the windows DLL that handles the calls bypasses any modifications made to the ini file.

Okay, let's get to it, here's how to fix the problem. You need to rename c:\windows\ehome\ehshell.exe to something else like myehshell.exe. Think of ehshell.exe as wmc.exe. But there's a trick: you just can't use Explorer or Dos Command to rename the file (typical windows bs). You MUST boot to a non-windows (7) environment. I've been using Hiren Boot CD 15.2 to backup my hard drives which is a Linux shell on a bootable cd. Launch the Linux Rescue Environment, file manager and you won't have any problems finding or renaming the file. Linux/Unix expertise is not needed. Clonezilla on this cd is the BEST backup/restore program EVER, better than Ghost or anything else out there, and free... you may want to take a look at it, especially if you have your OS / Programs on a 120 gb ssd drive that is easy and small to backup/restore. I digress.

After renaming the file you'll have the best of both worlds. NextPvr with no MCE Remote issues and WMC with no MCE remote issues. To start WMC, rename the command in the launch icon from ....\ehshell.exe to ...myehshell.exe. That will now be the only way to launch WMC now.

Hopes this helps.
Later,
Bit

Hi. I'm in the UK and trying out NextPVR and Kodi as a possible replacement for Windows MCE. Have a PCTV 291e USB stick which works fine with MCE enabling me to watch UK Freeview terrestrial digital channels. Have installed latest version of NextPVR and configured it to the point that it has found digital channels (118 in all - both TV and Radio) and have also got EPG working. However, having problems viewing. On some channels I can see the video but get no audio and others it's the other way round (audio but no video). Have installed Kodi and initial testing seems to show it doesn't have same problems. I've attached a zip of the log files. Would appreciate any advice on what might be wrong.

I just installed because Windows media Center had a critical error and lost all my season passes so I thought now would be a good time to try this program. When I click live TV all I get is a black screen with no audio. However if I go to the temporary directory there is a TS stream file and if I click it with VLC there is video and audio. What is wrong with this? Thank you very much.

I have nextpvr installed and working well for the most part. I would like to have the ability to watch my recordings on my android smartphone. I figured out how to do it using VLC stream & convert when I am home on the same network as my windows 7 server. I can't figure out how to access my recordings away from home via the internet. I read through the documentation wiki under web streaming capabilities, but I just couldn't wrap my head around the setup process. I don't know where to find the EWA screen to adjust for my having 64 bit Windows 7 is. In VLC somewhere? I have searched a lot and can't seem to find a dummy's guide to streaming. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Help! I've dug for weeks and cannot find anyone else running into this.
I record & watch all my TV via WMC, but since it is going away (Win10), I need to prepare for using other paths.
I have two Hauppauge Win-TV DCR-2650 that work perfectly under WMC.
NextPVR detects them OK (and even shows the channels before scanning), yet under Settings > Devices I get 'No' under the 'Present' column.
It, of course, cannot connect to them.
I have tried uninstalling & re-installing NextPVR, the Hauppauge WinTV7 & WinTV8 software, etc. in every imaginable order, but nothing works.
I have the latest device drivers, etc.
I also make sure I do not start WMC since the last reboot when attempting this (so as to not lock either device).
If I try to do a Channel-Scan on either of those (Present:'No') tuner devices, the window does nothing and when I try to exit, I get some error-window that I cannot escape w/out shutting NextPVR off via Task Manager.
(Endless loop: Close-error-window>Try-to-exit-scan-window>Error-window-again>Close-error-window>Try-to-exit-... etc. forever)
I've lost track of all the 'fixes' I've seen in forums that just don't work on my problem. (Win7 Pro, kept totally up-to-date)

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.

Hello,

I'm new to NextPVR and I already got Live TV working, but the playback stops/stutters for 1-3 seconds every ~6 minutes.
Now I've watched the hard disk with the buffer folder with the task manager. The first buffer file gets written continuously with about 0.5-1.0 MB/s. Then a new file gets written and the write speed drops to about 50 KB/s. After 6 minutes the hard disk activity jumps to 100% and at this time the playback stutters.

So why doesn't the app continue to write the buffer continuously after the first file?

My system:
i5 @ 3.00 GHz, 8 GB RAM
Win 8.1 with MC, 64-bit
Seagate ST950032 USB Device (for the buffer), NTFS formatted
AVerMedia A827 USB Hybrid (TV card, analog)


Regards,
Peter Bonge

Quick question:

Is it possible to display the EPG (all channels) while watching TV?

My primary TV software for years has been "Windows Media Center", but it is suddenly giving me a world of trouble. It looks like M$ is about to discontinue it.

One of the things I loved about it was the EPG and being able to pull the Listings up while watching TV and switch channels simply by clicking on the current listing.

I know I can display the TV Listings from the launch menu, but I was wondering if there's a way to overly the EPG in NextPVR?