I just noticed that several channels are showing SIGN OFF instead of the programme data. Specifically, BB1LONDON, BBC2HD and ITV1LONDON.
I have a slight suspicion it is when the region specific broadcast ends and reverts back to the national broadcast (e.g. BBC 1 LONDON reverts to BB1HD) as in 2 examples, I see SIGN OFF after regional news but this is not the case in all scenarios. Also, I don't see this with CHANNEL4 or CHANNEL5 which have no regional variations.
I tried several different SD providers (Virgin, BskyB, Freeview) but they all have the same problem.
When I revert those channels back to XMLTV, it is fine.
Just wondering ... Is there a way to pause recording as you're watching ... To clarify... When I was a kid recording movies from tv on a VCR. I would push pause during the commercials, then pause when the show came back on to resume recording. Can anything like this be done?
I've acquired a working TBS-6982 DVB-S2 card (after much shouting to the manufacturer about how the original didn't work - but that's another story) and attempted to get it working under VMware ESXi. I passed it through to my test NextPVR server virtual machine, which recognised it, loaded the drivers - and then couldn't do anything with it. Basically, it didn't acquire satellites. Shame, as I was hoping to leave it plugged into my always-on NAS but the fallback position is to plug it into my PVR v2.
So I then plugged it into an ASRock mini-ITX motherboard (which will form the heart of my next PVR) and it just worked fine with NextPVR, channels acquired, playing HD video, the lot.
Moral of the story? It doesn't work in a VMware VM. I hope that's useful for someone...
Run SmartTVApploader.exe on your Next PVR server/computer (you may need to run as administrator).
Use the tab NextPVRWeb to install the app to be served from the NextPVR inbuilt Web server (think NEWA) rather than installed locally on the TV set.
Hit the green button for the latest stable version.
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If successful you should be able to navigate the NextPVR UI using an ordinary html5 enabled browser on address http://your-server-ip:8866/touch3/client3.html after entering the correct IP address in settings.
This screenshot is showing NextPVR in a desktop Google Chrome browser.
Accessing the app this way is experimental and showing debugging information along with some navigation buttons.
Also video playback is currently not supported but you may use it to manage your recordings or view EPG.
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For Samsung
Using the Samsung tab, choose to install the app âNextPVRWeb Launcherâ. This is a small program that connects with the NextPVR app you installed in the previous step.
Use the "user application synchronization" procedure to install the app onto the TV. Your specific IP address to use for synchronization will be visible in the tool.
If your are not familiar with "user application synchronization"a quick Internet search should give you the necessary details which also slightly differs between year-models.
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For LG NetCast, WebOS Not supported
Use the LG tab in the tool to install the launcher app onto the USB memory stick you need to put into the TV.
Don't forget that you also need to have an account and be logged in on the TV or you won't see the app from the USB stick.
(Read TV's Electronic user guide - LG SMART Function/To Use LG Smart World)
It may take some time (5 min or so) after you inserted the USB stick till the app shows, it has to do with LG doing some checks over the internet.
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Time to run the app
Start âNextPVRWeb Launcherâ on the TV. Enter the IP address for your NextPVR server.
After a few seconds you should see the settings and options page.
Enter the IP address for your NextPVR server and choose to connect.
You are up and running!
Enter zero three times (0 0 0) to get into settings again if needed.
This is from a desktop browser. It will look slightly different on a Samsung or LG device.
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New version update is very simple:
Nothing to download, just start the SmartTVApploader.exe from before and hit the green button on the NextPVRWeb tab.
This will update your NextPVR server with the latest version of the app. There are no update or installation steps on the TV itself.
If you wish to install any other version, choose from list âavailable versionsâ and hit the gray button.
Power cycle your Smart TV device to make sure the app is reloaded.
Under normal circumstances I would just ditch IE8, but another one of my apps is hard-wired to use it (no, I am not the one who hard-wired it). So I need for IE8 to be able to pull up NEWA again. FF29 on the same machine works like a dream. I don't use Chrome, so no idea on that, but it would be irrelevant for me anyhow.
In particular I am now getting a error 400 "/Application" message when I try and pull up the SearchResults.aspx page and then click on the Table View option. It basically looks like it is timing out. The default Tree View takes a while to come up, but is of no use to me...
I tried CCleaner and then uninstalling and reinstalling IE8 to no avail. Same error. Not only is this consistently happening now, but in fact I never had it happen in the past two years quite like this.
IE8 works as usual everywhere else I checked. It is just slow with NPVR/NEWA.
Any thoughts on settings or other things to check? The actual NPVR/NEWA machine seems to be fine on these pages using IE6 BTW (the crummy version that came with Windows XP).
My problems are with a laptop that I only use to schedule programs via NEWA (but it is not running NPVR or running as a client.)
I run âEPG Collectorâ from UpdateEPG.bat to generate the EPG XML file then do some processing of the file before loading it into NextPVR. Ever since I did a clean install of Windows on my server several weeks ago the scheduled overnight EPG update has not run correctly so have had to do regular manual updates.
I had been looking at it as some sort of permissions problem. I eventually isolated the problem when running âNextpvr.exe âupdateepgonlyâ from Task Scheduler and noticed that the UpdateEPG.bat commands do not run if âRun with higher privilegesâ is selected.
EPG Collector wont now run with admin privileges such as when run from the NextPVR EPG scheduler. Earlier versions when installed for âAll Usersâ stored the config files under \ProgramData so all users shared the config file. However a clean "All Users" install of the latest or later versions now use \Users so when run as admin EPG Collector cannot find any config files so refuses to run.
The work around is to run âNextpvr.exe âupdateepgonlyâ from Task Scheduler without higher privileges!
I just reloaded my OS (Win7 64-bit), and did a clean install of 3.4.8. It seemed to install correctly with no error messages, but I did not get that command prompt window with the "service installed correctly" message, and in fact the NPVR recording service did not install at all. Then I uninstalled 3.4.8 and installed 3.3.8, which installed properly. Thereafter, I was able to install 3.4.8 over the top of it, and all is working correctly now.
So there seems to be something missing in the latest 3.4.8 installer.
I'm having trouble getting NPVR to install/run on my Windows 7 x64 machine.
It installs fine (no errors) whether as an Administrator or just double clicking the installer file. I can then also open NPVR and enter the setup and add channels and tv guide listings to them, but when I try and open a live TV stream I get an error: "Unable to communicate with recording service"
NTray.exe opens after a reboot and I can restart the recording service but it then errors out with a window stating: Unable to start service.... Service NPVR Service was not found on computer"..."The specified service does not exist as an installed service"
I've tried a number of uninstalls (including removing all the files and registry values but nothing seems to work.
Sub, you had mentioned 3.4.8 would have the ability to multi - record on the same HDHR Prime tuner for back to back recordings with padding on the front and back ends. I just noticed that a recording I had just now on the same channel used two separate tuners.
Recoding #1 ran from 8:58 AM - 10:02 AM (Supernatural S1E14: Nightmare) and the second from 9:58 AM - 11:00 AM (Supernatural S1E15: The Benders). Recording #1 used tuner #0 and the second started on tuner #1. I managed to catch a screen shot at about 10am just as both were recording simultaneously. I ran a EPG update about a hour or so earlier if that makes a difference.
