I'm having no success playing music from my NPVR library. I select Music from settings, navigate to a folder and select a track.
I see a grey bar along the top of the screen with "nDroid Music Player" in the top left and the name of the track in the middle of the screen - but no sound. if I tap the screen I get rewind, play and forward symbols at the bottom of the screen. If I tap on any of the symbols, they all disappear.
If I wait long enough, sometimes I get the unfortunately, nDroid has stopped... dialog box
Live TV and the nextpvr add-ons are enabled, Connection lost message appears every 10 seconds.
If I try to go Live TV, it says: No PVR Add-ons have been started. Wait for its start or check logs
XBMC Log repeats these five lines:
Code:
19:58:18 T:2826851424 WARNING: FillBuffer: curl failed with code 28
19:58:18 T:2826851424 ERROR: CCurlFile::CReadState::Open, didn't get any data from stream.
19:58:18 T:2826851424 ERROR: Open - failed to open source <http://192.168.1.100:8866/service?method=session.initiate&ver=1.0&device=xbmc>
19:58:18 T:2826851424 ERROR: ADDON: Dll NextPVR PVR Client - Client returned bad status (1) from Create and is not usable
19:58:18 T:2826851424 WARNING: UpdateAndInitialiseClients - failed to create add-on NextPVR PVR Client, status = 1
19:58:18 T:2980316256 NOTICE: Thread CAddonStatusHandler:pvr.nextpvr start, auto delete: true
The IP address is definitely correct. If I enter the above URL into a browser the following appears:
I've been using XBMC and NPVR for a month now I realize that's not very long, but I quickly took to XBMC and liked the idea of moving away from WMC with the addon
I've made some other posts about channel changing and tuning a channel in general with some problems I was experiencing. So chronologically
NPVR 2.5.9 (patched) and XBMC addon from dotnet devs with Frodo Beta
The above got me connected and worked with the HDHomerun Prime, but I followed a pdf guide from the wiki and set up the Prime as a Network Recorder
I heard from a few others that the network recorder and sagedct parts of my setup were no longer necessary since support was already builtin to 2.5.9
Re-install and configure with builtin HDHR Prime setup, update XBMC from Beta to RC, update addon from Dotnetdevs to latest
I had a lot of total XBMC lockups when trying to change channels with keyboard shortcuts
I also couldn't consistently tune a second channel w/o lockup even after stopping and moving to a different channel in the EPG
Now comes the latest update
Updated XBMC to stable release
Upgraded from W7 to W8
Reinstalled/configured NPVR with R2 patch list on forums
Configured the "bundled" addon from stable release
IMPROVEMENT!!!!
I'd just like to pass along what I've found to be a noticeable improvement. Also, from my experience I was trying to always use the "Timeline EPG" to start shows, but I started using the default LiveTV "Channels" view in XBMC and I left the "Start Playback minimized" setting toggled on (Previously always toggled off). Using the channels menu and starting playback minimized quickly tunes a channel in XBMC (not as quick as NPVR, but within 4 seconds where it used to take 8-9). You can choose to go fullscreen or pick a different channel from the list, and different channels work
I wish I had more time to stress test it, but sadly I work through the week. Recording scheduling has been solid, and I haven't had routine lockups during livetv or channel changing
I think it's noteworthy that several people (who are much more informed than I am about such things) have said XBMC is poor TS player. However, I thought simply adding an external player to XBMC could fix this issue, but I couldn't get MPC HC to work for live tv streams. I setup a user-defined playercorefactory.xml file to playback all video in MPC HC. My entire library (and even recordings from the NPVR addon) would start from XBMC and playback in MPC-HC just fine, so I know that the xml was written correctly. But . . . any attempt to view livetv would stop at the MPC HC splash screen then hit the XBMC timeout.
Since the default player and addon setup is improving it's ability to tune channels quickly, I'm not going to pursue MPC-HC any further. I just added this as a note in case others had the same idea about simply re-routing video playback in XBMC. There's probably a couple people in this forum who now why it didn't work as well
Lately i have been noticing that every time im recording, X-NEWA doesnt seems to want to work. While recording a show, if i go into X-NEWA, i get the message that it cannot contact the server or data unavailable, and i cant start any shows from it but as soon as the recordings stop, it starts to work again. I have yet to try 1.4.3 to see if its the same issue. It seems to only happen during recordings when XBMC has been idle for a extend period of time and then a recordings start while its still idle. if a recording start and i was using xbmc actively, it seems to work fine but not if the but had already occurred.
Also i dont know if its intended but i noticed that the Free/used space always displays 6.2GB and 5GB used instead of 6.2TB and 11.5TB like the NEWA plugin or webpage
I have a coax cable connected from my card to the cable directly. Since I only want the normal channels, 3 to 36 I don't think I need a box. Ok so in NextPVR setting screen in Devices I see QAM Hauppauge Win TV 885. If I select it and scan for channel it goes to 100 and stoped without even detecting one channel.
What am I doing wrong??
BTW IN Skype if I go setup my webcam and select my PVR Card I can see and hear my tv channels.
Just getting an exception when attempting to enter device setting for my Colossus. Not sure if anyone has seen this before.
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at NShared.HDPVRSettingsForm.GetExtras(ChannelMapping channelMapping)
at NShared.HDPVRSettingsForm.LoadChannelList()
at NShared.HDPVRSettingsForm.HDPVRSettingsForm_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnLoad(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.OnCreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl(Boolean fIgnoreVisible)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.CreateControl()
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ContainerControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WmShowWindow(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
I have opened the firewall according to instructions for all ports both ways. Username and password set to same as NEWA. Port left at 8790.
No matter what I do nDroid, running on my android 4.0 tablet just sits with a spinning wheel. I can't even stop that, I have to uninstall each time I want to try another idea.
Never known such an infuriating app. Please can anyone suggest the one silly thing I may not have done or a way to test what is not working.
Posted by: ttfitz - 2013-02-06, 05:04 AM - Forum: Hardware
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Last week when I posted about an intermittent problem I was having with my HVR-1250 card on Clear-QAM recordings, it was suggested that there was a problem with my signal, in particular where the logs were showing a "locked=0" and "quality=30". Since I am in the process of changing providers and had two different sources available to me at the computer location, I switched from one to the other to try things out. Since then, I have had no problems with the recordings not happening (but it didn't always happen before, so I can't say things are fixed), but in looking over the logs, I have never seen anything other than the same "locked=0" and "quality=30" from before, which I thought was a little odd. Also, the Hauppauge Digital Signal Quality monitor program never shows anything put a solid signal (SNR=40).
Just to get a different data point, I tried out a HVR-950Q USB tuner on my laptop, hooked up to the same original source as before. On this tuner, the logs reported "locked=1 strength=-15 quality=100", every one of the values different from with the HVR-1250. I had read here on some thread that different cards returned different values for these items, so I was wondering if anyone else here uses the HVR-1250, and if so, if they might post their values so I can get some idea of what I might expect.
I realize that's not very long, but I quickly took to XBMC and liked the idea of moving away from WMC with the addon
