hi, everybody

I've installed the TV listing plug in, and everything appears to be working properly, except the recordings panel. I have the recordings panel box checked off on the "panel" tab, and display duration to 20 sec and the recording soon time to 5 hours....the restirct to main menu is unchecked and the enable MVP is also unchecked..... any ideas?

thanks

Bill

does anyone have a higher res nextpvr icon (the n in the black circle) around 256x256?

TIA

I am running NextPVR 2.6.2 for several months now and have found several issues. I was hoping someone could either verify they are known issues or provide a possible fix for the issues. I mostly use the NEWA web interface for working with NextPVR.

• The Guide is limited to 7 days of data. The guide XML though has 14 days worth of data. It just seems NextPVR won't show/retain more than 7 days worth of guide data.
  
• Recurring Scheduled Recordings that I cancel via NEWA will re-appear and be recorded every time the guide updates. Possibly sooner than that, but definitely cannot cancel a single recording more than 1 day in advance.
  
• I created a Recurring Recording to start daily at 5am. I set pre-padding to 1 minute and post-padding to 3 minutes. However, no matter what I do NextPVR records the FULL previous broadcast at 4am and the following broadcast at either 6am or 6:30am. I am assuming this is an error caused by the padding, but I don't want the full previous and post broadcast.
  

now then...
I may have errored. After much success in trying out the 8.1 preview on a couple of my machines I decided to upgrade the main rig that acts as a tv server. I'm sure we all know what happened next...nextpvr doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Tuners are all showing up and I've tested that they are installed correctly and working with dvbviewer.
If I try to scan in nextpvr I get unable to start device - device failed to start.

naturally I didn't take a backup as I like to live on the edge.
How screwed am I?

Ok, here's a strange duck, but I can't figure out how to do this, so I figured I'd ask.

I have my NextPVR setup with a Silicon Dust HDHR Prime. Things are fine. With one exception; I have one station (just one!) that is in my silicon dust guide, that I can view inside the Silicon Dust application that doesn't transfer to being viewable inside of NextPVR.

I recognize some channels won't be available because of flags, but this channel isn't flagged (normally, outside of sporting events which do sometimes run on it which do get flagged). Unfortunately, I apparently caught this channel in the middle of an MLS game when I scanned, thus the flag. (that's my theory at the moment)

But I'm trying to think if there is a way to manually add that channel in after the fact.

Any help appreciated.

Hi,

I would really like some fresh ideas because I've run out of solutions so far.

Here is my setup :
- HDhomerun dual tuner, networked to the router.
- Underpowered laptop (1 year old) running nextPvr perfectly. Also runs XBMC perfectly, including Live Tv.
- Networked Pivos Xios Ds with Linux Xbmc. The Xios plays the HDhomerun streams perfectly using these intructions (http://www.silicondust.com/forum2/viewto...a3c#p33358), but it severely buffers using the live TV option.

Using the streams, there is only one stream travelling in my network : from the hdhomerun to the Xios.
Using live tv, there are two streams travelling : from the hdhomerun to my laptop, (using nextpvr) then another one from my laptop to my Xios.

So, my hyptohesis is either my computer is too slow handling the two streams, or my router can't cope.

Anyone has any idea how I can find which one is the bottleneck ?

Thanks !

Hi Sub,

here's the running list (I'll update it as I go) of API calls I would like.

• Get recording conflicts: recording.list&filter=conflicts. Need all the same info returned that is displayed in the npvr gui
  
• Recurring recordings, get the schedule of the recurring (time of day, days of week etc)
  
• get epg listings passing in multiple channeloids. I'm also having problems getting whats just finished. If I pass in now-30minutes, I don't always get that, npvr seems to ignore listings that have "expired". but I would still like to display these
  
• Pending recordings
  
• include if recording service was stopped during a recording to the recordings.list call (so can display same warning as in npvr gui)
  
• epg, get whats on now and next (passing in the value for "now"). This is a nice to have, I'm using this info for the mini guide. Currently having to grab about 12 hours of all channels just to ensure I get the next epgevent (some channels have very long shows).
  
• Ability to search for listings by regex or simlar. So I can find all listings starting with "x" but also any listings with "batman" in its name
  
• Add more settings to Setting.list call (whats new days, skip steps, recording start screen etc)
  
• record based on epgevent oid and schedule type with optional prepadding/postpadding/folder/keep values (if optionals arent set, use defaults). Schedule type eg 0 = once, 1 = All new, 2 = this timeslot, mon-fri etc
  
• Ability to update a recording schedule. Passing in the recurring oid, and the new schedule
  
• Ability to delete a recurring recording
  
• Get comskip times for a recording (based on recording oid)
  
• Include "watched" status on recordings in recordings.list
  
• Include "playposition"/"resumeposition" in reocrdings.list
  
• Ability to set watched status of a recordign
  
• Ability to set playposition/resumeposition of a recording
  
• return JSON data if requested via content-type=application/json or a &type=json parameter (easier to test in browser with a url parameter, but correct method is content-type (i always do both in my apps))
  
• ability to get tuner status (live tv, currently recording)
  
• ability to get basic server information, free space on tv buffer drive (and drive letter), free space on recordings drive (and drive letter) (in case of multiple drives, return a list of all ones), OS version, system uptime.
  
• get a list of recording directories
  
• add default postpadding/prepadding/keep days to setting.list call
  

I seem to remember reading a solution for this in the past, but if it is in the forum somewhere I haven't managed to find the right keywords for a search.

I have a great NPVR setup at home that I've been using with relatively few problems for a number of years, but I am now going to be away from home for some time and based alternatively in two different locations served by two different transmitters - we are talking UK Freeview DVB-T here, though that probably doesn't make much difference.

What is the best way to setup NPVR on a laptop so that I can take it with me from location A to location B and back again several times minimising the amount of setup change I have to do with each change of location before I can record and watch TV programmes that evening?

Hello,

I am looking to replace an existing PVR that has twin tuners with something new.
I'd like to put together something relatively small and neat but have some flexibility on size.
I'd like it to have an SSD to store the recordings internally - I don't have any home servers to stream recordings from/to.
I live in the UK, and get Freeview only.

I realise that different people have different views and different needs from their hardware but could someone recommend a full and current-day list of UK-compatible hardware I should be thinking of getting please? I'm a bit uncertain about what will work with what, and which components will work in the UK.
Things like small(ish) form factor pcs, which tuner cards, which remote control, which other bits I might need?

Many thanks for your advice and suggestions!

Hi There,

Does anyone know how I would find out if the PVR is actually recording or not at a particular time. I want to write some code that will turn the box to standby in response to the remote, but only if there is nothing currently recording. At the moment the thing just turns off anyway and dumps the recording.....

Many thanks,

Trevor