This might be a stupid question. I had been using my PVR 2250 for OTA broadcasts, just installed an HDHR Prime with CableCard. All the local stations are available on both devices, is there a way to configure NPVR such that only one listing for the station shows up in the TV Guide and NPVR grabs the appropriate channel off the first available tuner based on priority set in devices tab?

Thanks,
-Brad

I'm trying to run nextPVR with an AverMedia A188-AF on my PC running Windows 7.

I'm trying to pick up channels from my college's cable TV, but a few channels are missing. I'm able to pick them up fine using a Samsung TV, and I'm sure they are digital channels because they appear in HD.

How can I get nPVR to pick them up? I can only get the Samsung TV to show the virtual channel number. Is there any way I can get it to show the physical number as well?

I am using an HDHomeRun Plus (dual tuner) with NextPVR.

Both tuners are showing under settings in the devices tab. Both tuners are enabled and I'm able to scan channels.

But I am only able to watch or record 1 show at a time. If I try to watch a show while recording another show then I get a message that a tuner is not available.

Also, for similar reasons I am unable to use Picture in Picture. I receive a message "Unable to available capture device"

Any suggestions? I've tested both tuners using the HDHomeRun software and they both seem to be working.

TV: Samsung UN60F6300
NextPVR: Works well on the computer running the npvr server

Connection from the TV app to the NPVR server seems to work since I have the full NPVR menu available when I load the app. However, the app completely hangs when I select the LiveTV option. The only option for me is to then switch sources or reboot the TV.

Also, when the app is first loading it displays the following message "Failed to register device, unknown error."
I assume this has to do with connecting to your portal for log info?

I have tried poking around a little myself. When I turn the debug screen on, then select LiveTV, I noticed the following:

=========================================================
showing message: {"title":"Starting Playback"...etc
selecting mini guide channel: Unknown 74.2
mini guide: start: 0 , selectIndex: 0
refreshing list view
api.getCurrentProgramme:{"Id":7148,"Name":"Unknown 74.2"
Fetching: http://192.XXX.X.XXX:8866/service?method=...etc
loadEpgData completed in: 00:00:00
Error loading epg data: TypeError: Cannot read property 'Name' of undefined
loadEpgData completed in: 00:00:00
Error loading epg data: TypeError: Cannot read property 'Name' of undefined
==========================================================

I'm sure that you would prefer/need a full log, but at first glance it appears to be related to Epg data? I'm going to hunt around on my NPVR server to see if I can luck into a fix while I wait to hear back.

Reven, thank you for your time on this project!! I'm really looking forward to getting this app up and running!

I have a problem with my ASUS PCH3-100 card, I am using an amplified antenna that I am confident should be receiving at least a couple atsc channels. Running Vista SP2 ultimate w/media center installed. I tried initially tried using media center, but I can't get very far, it crashes, but probably because I disabled a bunch of the services because I don't want it downloading programming data. So then, I tried using the software that came with the card - ArcSoft Total Media 3.5, and it will scan channels, and I can tell some of them are getting really good signal, but all I ever saw was black, it never locked and always reported 0 channels. I came to nextpvr since I thought maybe I could get some good debug data, so I just installed it and tried scanning, and I get nothing. Two ATSC tuners are listed, one with MCE in the title and one without MCE. Both scan empty. Logs attached, but here's one of the scan results:

2014-01-25 06:25:54.515 [DEBUG][1] Frequency has changed, so stopping recording from previous frequency. (Handle 40)
2014-01-25 06:25:54.534 [DEBUG][1] whoosh whoosh
2014-01-25 06:25:54.534 [DEBUG][1] Calling LockChannel()
2014-01-25 06:25:55.552 [DEBUG][1] locked=0, present=0, strength=1003000, quality=95 (took 1016ms to check)
2014-01-25 06:25:55.553 [DEBUG][1] File size is 0 bytes (non-existant)
2014-01-25 06:25:55.553 [INFO][1] DigitalRecorder.StartStream() allocated handle: 0x29
2014-01-25 06:25:55.553 [INFO][1] DigitalRecorder.StopStream() handle: 28
2014-01-25 06:26:00.636 [INFO][1] DigitalRecorder.StartStream(c:\nowhere\null.ts)
2014-01-25 06:26:00.636 [DEBUG][1] Switching BDA graph to tune:
<tuning>
<type>ATSC</type>
<locator>
<physical_channel>43</physical_channel>
</locator>
</tuning>


Isn't that good enough quality to get a lock?

I should also mention that hooking the card up to cable and doing a search on the Clear QAM, I was able to get channels using the TotalMedia software but they were all locked except for one that promotes Xfinity, and I was able to see both video and audio on that channel. But again, that was on cable, on a different physical hookup on the card.

Thanks in advance for the help!

Does anyone know of any PCIE DVB-C quad tuner to recommend?

Thanks in advance. :o

I know it may still be a bit early, but I have received Silicondust's newest HDHomeRun transcoding device (HDTC-2US).

NextPVR is working with the unit, but it is just in the native MPEG2 (.ts) format.

I was wondering if there were any active plans on updating NextPVR to support the built-in transcoding from the HDHomeRun.


Thanks!

Good day guys,

So i have a raspberry pi running the latest raspbmc. I am running nextpvr 3.1.1 and all seems well except while i am watching live tv it seems to freeze around 7 minutes into the show. I hit a stop button on my remote and go to the menu page show and a little message will display stating "tuner no longer available". I then can select the channel again and the show will start again.

Is there a buffer setting that i am missing. I do have the mpeg license installed.
Please let me know if i am missing something. Also i am plugged in not using wifi.

Thank you

I'm trying to work out a way to add inbound port rules to Windows Firewall. It seems there are 2 APIs - the one introduced with XP SP2 and the "advanced" API added in Vista.

It seems rules created with the XP API approach would be valid for Vista and later but it is recommended to use the advanced API. One problem is the MS code samples for the XP API are in C++ and I'd rather use C# - another problem is the samples for the advanced can't be built in VS2010 on my XP machine because they need to reference a system dll (or a version of it) which only comes with Vista and later.

I thought about just using a shell to execute the netsh CLI using "netsh firewall" or "netsh advfirewall" commands depending on OS version but I've never been keen on executing a command-line program from within a .NET program.

Any thoughts / ideas gratefully received.

Cheers,
Brian

There seems to be a bug in the Frodo build with NextPVR Addon that requires you to change the channel 3 times before you can use the tunner from the HDHomeRun Prime without getting the "Tunner not Available" error. On the 3rd time it works every time. I had a co-worker try his and the same thing.

I was able to get rid of this bug by turning off the time shifting but then the live tv jitters and becomes unwatchable on my RPi.

Anyone else notice this bug and come up with a fix.