I have no idea if anyone will be interested in this but while I was playing around with channel logos I decided I had better have a look at how they looked with the Default skin & wellllll....... so after modifying a number of the logos I was working on I also did some quick tweaks to the Default skin to make them display a little better with it.
If you want to give it a look/play just create a new directory in your dataDirectory\NPVR\Skin (I called mine DefaultAlt) then copy the contents from Default into it after this copy the content of the attached zip into it overwriting the three files... open NextPVR & change your selected skin to DefaultAlt in the General sections of settings, restart NextPVR & all should be go.
If you decide to delete your new directory remember to go into settings before doing so & change your selected skin otherwise you will have to edit config.xml with notepad to change skins
I have just updated the attachment with a few tweaks & new screen captures.
Ive have decided to rebuild one of my computers as the motherboard died, and decided this was a good time to update hardware. This issue i am hoping i can work though is not having to set up my NPVR setup from scratch all over again. I am unsure yet if i am going to be able to boot into windows with old HDD on new motherboard. Is there a way i can copy over my setting (channels other setting) by copying the npvr folder thats on the HDD, if i need to re-install windows. If anyone could let me know what i should do. Most interested in not having to rescan all channels again.
Hi!
Very excited to see there's an update which enables the recording of series etc.
I installed the latest Gotham nightly today and enabled NextPVR.... connects and displays guide / plays TV fine.
I looked at the version number and it says 1.9.5 and the log 1.9.6..... assuming that it is actually 1.9.6 I started to look for the new recording options, but can't see them anywhere... if I schedule a recording I just get the option to add or cancel it! - are they hiding somewhere?
For now, I just load up NPVR and set them in that, but ideally I'd like to do it from within XBMC.
Much of my EPG is empty with "no show details". Looking at the log I have the following :-
Code:
2014-02-15 16:00:50.026 [INFO][6] EPG update thread starting...
2014-02-15 16:00:50.072 [DEBUG][6] Updating EPG...
2014-02-15 16:00:50.076 [DEBUG][6] About to run C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\UpdateEPG.bat
2014-02-15 16:10:41.339 [DEBUG][1] ActivatePopup: FixedImage
2014-02-15 16:10:41.368 [DEBUG][1] No C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\ScreenSaverStart.bat file found
2014-02-15 16:10:55.135 [DEBUG][6] C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\UpdateEPG.bat has completed
2014-02-15 16:10:55.152 [DEBUG][6] Will process xmltv file: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\skyguide.xml
2014-02-15 16:10:55.155 [DEBUG][6] Loading XMLTV from: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Scripts\skyguide.xml
2014-02-15 16:10:55.770 [ERROR][6] Error reading xmltv file: System.Xml.XmlException: Invalid character in the given encoding. Line 185349, position 59.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String arg)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.InvalidCharRecovery(Int32& bytesCount, Int32& charsCount)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.GetChars(Int32 maxCharsCount)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ReadData()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseText(Int32& startPos, Int32& endPos, Int32& outOrChars)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseText()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReader.Read()
at NShared.XmltvEPGSource.UpdateEPG(List`1 channels)
2014-02-15 16:10:55.770 [DEBUG][6] channelEventLists.Count=45
However, I can't find anything odd at the line or offset??? Does NPVR quote the real line number of the xml file of is it parsed a bit first'???
trying to attach zip file, may be big, so possible edit with dropbox link. Damn epgbadchar.zip - Your file of 3.44 MB bytes exceeds the forum's limit of 2.29 MB for this filetype.
After I upgraded to 3.1.1, I tried accessing the NEWA and it says it can't be found. I tried using the localhost and teh Actual Ip Address (locally and remotly) still could not be found. I finally looked at the log and it says "Unexpected error starting web server:..."(full logs attached)
I've tried everything to fix this, rebooting, installing the latest NEWA, uninstalling NPVR then re-installing it adding patches and installing the the latest NEWA, and even uninstalling .NET 4 and re-installing it.
I Uninstalled again and went back to 2.6.2 and NEWA works fine, I even tried again upgrading to 3.1.1 (making sure the service was stopped before I upgraded) NEWA couldn't be found. Added patches and installed the the latest NEWA again and still did not work.
I'm still on gbpvr and win XP and was wondering if my htpc will be safe. It's a dedicated box that will only fetch tvguide data, some youtube and maybe netflix. Will my old XP box be safe or should I get my act together and get nextpvr together?
I previously had Next PVR Web Console installed while tinkering with NPVR. At the time I had cable and was using schedules direct. I've now moved to using NPVR full time and am now only using over-the-air antenna and XMLTV as EPG source.
I've tried deleting all my channels and EPG source, importing channels for NPVR and setting my EPG configuration to my .xml file. I've attempted scanning the xml file, emptying the EPG and filling it, but I never can populate the EPG. I've attempted removing NPVRWC and reinstalling only to have my old channel settings and Schedules Direct configuration showing back up.
How can I clear all information from NPVRWC and start over with a clean slate? The channels and EPG information it is finding are not the ones that NPVR is using now.
Windows 8.1 PRO 64-bit, SiliconDust HDHomeRun Dual-3 (clearQAM on Time Warner Digital Cable (basic channels), latest version of NPVR with patches applied. Firewall allowing NDigitalHost, NextPVR, NRecord.exe, private & public.
Actually, I can now get everything else to work, as long as I use Administrator Command Prompt to run "NRecord.exe RUN" before starting NVPR. Device is configured, Channels scanned. I can view LiveTV, and did a test record of 2 Manual Recordings at the same time (thru the dual tuners). All functions seem to be working. I still need to work on the EPG, maybe remap channels to #s I'm used to, and play around with closed captioning to check that.
However, unless I use the Command Prompt, I cannot start the NPVR service from the start menu. Instead, I will receive the error message:
"Unable to start service: System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot start service
NPVR Recording Service on computer ".".--->
System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: The system cannot find the file
specified
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.Start(String[] args)
at NCtrl.Program.Main(String[] args)
