No digital channels are showing up in NVPR 3.2.9 (*installed on a Xp PRO SP3 box)
What I have done so far to fix the problem:
- Using NPVRSetup 3.2.9 with a HDHomeRun Dual *(OTA only)
(*theses are the only PVR/TV software program's installed on the machine)
- ChannelMaster 4221HD Terrestrial Antenna being used. It is the only signal source for Tuner 0.
- I am using "Tuner 0" on the HD-Homerun, "Tuner 1" has been disabled and capped (*terminated)
- I can see all my ATSC channels in the HD-HomeRun Setup program.
- I've excluded (*allowed) the Nrecord, Nnpvr and NDigitalhost programs in Windows Xp PRO SP3 firewall.
- I've opened (*forwarded) ports 8968, 8866, 7969 on my router.
- I've tried scanning several times with all the device software listed (Other: ATSC-QAM and NVPR)
- For testing purposes, the Windows Firewall is COMPLETELY disabled now ...
- MediaPortal TV Server (*My previous PVR/TV software) has been uninstalled
and all references have been removed from Windows and the registry.
Results, so far:
HD-Homerun Setup finds ALL digital channels INSTANTLY!
NO digital channels are found in NPVR! The SCAN's are BLANK!
HELP! I've been at this since Saturday night!(July 27th), It's mak'in me krazy!
*Please see a zipped copy of my NVPR log's attached
Box Details:
Windows Xp PRO SP3
Intel E8400
HD-Homerun Dual (HDHR-101CAD3F)
*No Analog Tuners are installed ... only the HD-Homerun
Please let me know if you need more info, Thanks in advance.
*Edit: I am using K-Lite Codecs MEGA Pack
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Hi All!
Following all of your suggestions, I finally got it working. What I did :
- I disabled the Xp PRO firewall with the following at the command prompt.
" netsh firewall set opmode disable "
- I ran PING and TRACERT to make sure I had a connection to the HD-Homerun DUAL
- I changed Hd-Homerun Setup to OTHER: QAM/ATSC and HD-HOMERUN QUICK TV
- I updated the Windows components in HD-Homerun Setup -> Advanced -> Repair/Reinstall Windows Comnponents
(* I think this is what did it, maybe HD-Homerun can't see the NPVR installation until it is reinstalled?)
- I REBOOTED the OS
- When I got back to the desktop, I ran a Channel SCAN and it found all the channels!
I looked through the forum and found nothing that was close to the problem I am having.
I am running NPVR 3.2.9 on Windows 8.1 with XBMC Froto. Using HDhomerun with cable card. I re-boot my HTPC normally once a day when I go to bed if nothing is recording at the time. So I know my PC doesn't have in lingering garbage.
Anytime I setup a new recording (manual or from the EPG) I always use X-newa and go directly into NPVR to do it.
The problem.
My cable seems to go to sleep if I go a long time without changing a station or doing something. This also happened back in my ReplayTV days. Got around it with Replay by setting a manual recording in the middle of the night.
So with NPVR I setup a manual recording on The Golf Channel starting at 12:30am and going for 10 mins. No pre-padding or post padding, and it is set for every day and keeping just 1 recording.
It does record the 10 mins (actually says it recorded 9mins 52 secs) and did fix my cable going to sleep. But in addition to recording the 10 mins (with name default) it puts out another recording that is empty also with the name default. It says it recorded 10 mins at 12:30am, but the file is null.
So why is it doing this? It is not a major problem, but is kinda annoying. In trying to fix it I have tried several things, like deleting the reoccurring recording and starting over. Tried changing the time slightly or changing stations. Nothing works. The funny thing is if I happen to be up right after 12:30am and take a look, I see just the single legit recording. So I delete it (through XBMC) and the strange thing is a null 10 minute recording at 12:30am shows up a little later. My EPG update is at 2:40am. So when I have done the delete, the null one shows up sometime after the EPG has been updated.
NextPVR newbie. Used Sage previously, stopped for a while, and now setting things up again with NextPVR.
So far, setup has been fairly smooth. However, I am stuck on getting the channels to change.
Things I have tried:
- BlastCfg works fine, can change channel
- Calling HaupBlast directly changes the channel
- Put the HaupBlast call in a cmd file, including adding a wait before and after calling HaupBlast
- Changed the Service to Log On as:
- Local, allow service to interact with desktop
- My user account
- Added a nPVR section to Irremote.ini
Not sure what's left for me to try :confused:
One thing I noticed is that calling HaupBlast myself causes a green light on the STB to flash after the IR blasts the channel numbers (3 flashes). When I initiate the channel change from NextPVR, I see 3 flashes, but no green light.
Thanks in advance for any help. I feel like I'm so close to getting this all setup...
When rewinding timeshifted live TV it jumps irregular and suddenly crash XBMC. I have read that it is due to that XBMC have problems with the timestamps in a .TS file, is there a work around on this one?
I downloaded and installed the most recent build of NEWA (2.13) that just came out. I did some quick tests with XNEWA, and everything seemed fine. Today I noticed that the Recent Recordings section isn't being populated. I checked the logs, and I can't quite figure out where it might be going south and whether this is a result of me running XNEWA code that's kind of forked. If I switch XNEWA to SOAP, everything is fine. I have this recollection that there was one XNEWA section that was still falling back to SOAP pending the release of the next version of NEWA, so I'm thinking that might be where my problem is. Now if I could just remember in which section that was.
So, I think I've finally figured out why comskip isn't working all the time. It's because of the windows unattended sleep function. When it wakes up to record NPVR keeps it awake for the duration of the recording but not for when the show is over and comskip is still running. As result, when I check it sometimes the comskip file is not complete and I think comskip is at fault when in fact it is Windows that's causing the problem.
I'm testing a solution that should work, but I would like to ask others how they've dealt with this issue.
I tell it to enter high performance power scheme so that it doesn't go to sleep, wait for comskip to finish, if there's a comskip task still running leave it in high performance but if there's no comskip then bring it back to balanced where it'll go to sleep in 25 minutes.
Here's my parallelprocessing.bat:
cd /d C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts
echo high performance %Date% %TIME% %1 >>logtest.txt
REM high performance
powercfg -setactive 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c
echo start comskip %Date% %TIME% %1 >>logtest.txt
comskip %1
echo end comskip %Date% %TIME% %1 >>logtest.txt
tasklist /nh /fi "imagename eq comskip.exe" | find /i "comskip.exe"
if errorlevel 0 if not errorlevel 1 goto IsRunning
:exit
echo changing to balanced %Date% %TIME% %1 >>logtest.txt
REM Balanced
powercfg -setactive 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e
exit
Anyone know how to get the previous night's listing to show up in the guide.
I've checked my XML file and the info is there, it just doesn't show in guide.
