Now that I am running exclusively on USB tuners, in order to save space around my TV Iâm looking to dramatically downsize my NextPVR server (also running as a Plex server) which is currently in an Antec Fusion case with the new Intel i3 NUC.
Existing server: E5300 processor, 2GB RAM, 2x1TB HDD and 2xHauppauge Duet USB Tuners, MCE remote with USB receiver
New Server: NUC5i3RYH, 8GB RAM and 2TB Seagate M9T 9.5mm HDD, MCE Remote using integrated receiver
Whilst Iâve seen several discussions around using a NUC as a client PC, Iâm not aware of anyone using one as a server. Has anyone tried this configuration? Iâm especially interested in overall noise levels as Iâm keen to keep the server as quiet as possible (existing server has a Scythe Ninja Mini cooler and Sharkoon Silent Eagle 120mm fans).
I installed and configured NPVR and Schedules Direct per the setup guide/Wiki.
I have the settings checked to open Main Menu at start; does not happen only black screen.
I can start Live TV with right click menu.... but thats all I have is the right click menu.
The plugins are checked so they should show up in the start menu, but all I get is black screen.
When watching live TV I get flickering on 1 or 2 UHF channels but not all, tried changing the video render to 7 and 9 but that made the issue worse, returned to EVR. Also changed decoders and stuck with ffdshow, seems to have helped a bit also but not completely.
WinTV 7 app works flawlessly on all channels so I know it is NPVR and not the HW.
Using NPVR with Kodi/XBMC so need this to work.
Could the WinTV app be causing issues with NPVR, don't think I can uninstall it as it provides drivers for the 2255.
I've been using the Raspberry Pi for months with Raspbmc and it's been fine with the NPVR client (not needed to use Live TV though). I recently bought a RPi2 and discovered the Raspbmc build will not work with this new model. I therefore tried the new OSMC version and immediately hated the GUI.
This brought me to try XBIAN which is a Kodi build. The install went fine and it seems quite stable. My problems started as soon as I enabled the NPVR client. Every 30 seconds I get an audio beep and a popup saying NPVR has "Lost connection". The TV menu item doesn't appear and the EPG or Channel list doesn't load...... just every 30 seconds or so the "Lost connection" message pops up.
I have a spare Micro SD card so I loaded the XBian software onto that and tried it in my original RPi. Having configured it I get the same problem...NPVR has "Lost Connection" every 30-40 secs :confused:
So two different model RPis with the same problem implies to me a software or config issue. Has anyone else got XBian working with NPVR on a RPi?
Just to make matters worse, when I re-inserted my Raspbmc SD card back into my original RPi, it updated the software to the last Raspbmc Kodi release. That's now totally unstable with random re-boots and will often re-boot several times before reaching the main menu screen.
So I now have two RPis that I can't get to work properly.
I noticed that some channels were missing when I opened up my tuner box in the Devices settings. So I clicked on scan to have it rescan (Analog) and it skips from channel 16 to 21 when I know all five of those channels are valid. Any ideas why it would do that?
Since the update I am having problems with recording and live tv. If I pull up live tv I just get a black screen. And most of the times recording fail because it can't connect to my device. Yet if I go to status it sees the device. I did not have any of these problems prior to upgrading.
Any ideas? I do not know where to start to troubleshoot this.
For some time I can not browse the forum via Tapatalk application.
I got a message telling me that the plugin is not enabled on the forum ...
Did you also have this problem?
I was looking at some of my log files this morning and noticed that the imageGrabLite.log file from the nightly EPG update was ending prematurely and showing an error. (see imageGrabLite-withExitingGangland.log in attached .zip)
Code:
2015-02-21 03:49:58.942 [DEBUG][1] Checking C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media/Shows/Gangland Undercover.xml
2015-02-21 03:49:58.942 [ERROR][1] Read Error Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
I then tried deleting the existing "Gangland Undercover.xml" (copy included in .zip) and manually re-running the post-EPG update command. This time it went on to Kosher Soul (see imageGrabLite-DeletedGangland.log). So then I re-deleted the Gangland Undercover.xml file and the Kosher Soul.xml file, and again re-ran imageGrabLite.
This time it made it to The Middle (imageGrabLite-TheMiddleProblem.log). This one had a different error.
Code:
2015-02-21 12:33:42.615 [DEBUG][1] Starting rename check
2015-02-21 12:33:42.615 [DEBUG][1] Episodic: True C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins/SearchLite/Series/The Middle.xml
2015-02-21 12:33:42.615 [DEBUG][1] C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media/Shows/The Middle.xml
2015-02-21 12:33:42.620 [DEBUG][1] /Data/Episode[SeasonNumber = 6 and EpisodeNumber = 16]
2015-02-21 12:33:42.620 [DEBUG][1] /Data/Episode/EpisodeName[normalize-space(.) ='Flirting With Disaster']
2015-02-21 12:33:42.621 [DEBUG][1] Not found, trying flirting with disaster
2015-02-21 12:33:42.621 [DEBUG][1] Found episode match 2015-03-04
2015-02-21 12:33:42.621 [DEBUG][1] Rename using Flirting With Disaster S06 E15
2015-02-21 12:33:42.621 [DEBUG][1] Look for second episode
2015-02-21 12:33:42.623 [ERROR][1] Read Error Index was outside the bounds of the array.
And removing all 3 of the .xml files didn't help. (i.e. I still got the same error with The Middle). So I think that the problem with The Middle is something different.
Just wondering has anyone tried some of the new low cost x86 Windows tablets as NPVR Servers? Was considering getting one to try it out, but just wondering if someone has already done it and would say it's not worth the hassle.
When I'm navigating the webclient on my RPI2, I keep getting thrown back to the main menu of Kodi, but it doesn't happen all the time. The logs are showing the navigation in the recordings list. I've made the logs last week on version 2.4.5. I'm posting it now, because I wanted to check if the alpha version was showing the same problem, and it does. Let me know if you need the logs from 2.4.6 alpha.
When I was first setting up nextPVR a few month ago, I told it to record all episodes of the "Tonight Show" as a test. That was when I was first setting things up and trying to get everything to work. I had to remove the channels and epg info and set that up again, and stuff like that. Basically, I had to go through the setup process a few times to get everything working correctly. Apparently that got something confused in the scheduled recordings.
I can not get rid of the Tonight Show scheduled recording. As it downloads a TVGuide update and decides to record additional episodes, I can cancel the recording of those individual episodes. But I cannot get rid of the recurring schedule. I can tell it to cancel the recurring record, but it still does.
I have tried creating a new scheduled recording of the show, and setting the new one to keep only one episode. I could ignore its insistence on recording the show, if it would at least delete them. But that doesn't seem to work either. It always records all episodes of this show, and it keeps all episodes. I have to manual delete every episode. (and on a daily show, that gets annoying).
If I go to the list of "Recurring Recordings", the Tonight Show is not listed there. On the "Pending Recordings" each upcoming episode is listed. I can cancel them individually there too, but more will be added when more days show up in the TV guide.
Other scheduling appears to work correctly. I can create and delete scheduled recordings for other shows, and have it keep just a show or two if desired. The only show having this problem is the Tonight Show. It was the show I tried to schedule as a test while setting things up, I'm guessing that is related. But I don't remember all the setup things I played with since then.
Any ideas? Like, is there a back door way to clean this up? (editing the xml config files?)
