Overnight, a scheduled recording is reported as successful, but in fact the .ts file is only 28Mb and is not playable (with VLS for NPVR). It's on a channel that has worked fine before, and it has the timestamp when it was due to end, so it looks like it didn't fail (e.g. loss of signal) and was truncated
I'm trying to understand the benefit of using NextPVR in conjunction with Dish Network (or similar service).
When I started with NextPVR years ago I had a cable card, which was a very sweet arrangement.
Recently I've been playing with an IPTV service, which is a legally gray area at best.
I'd like to go fully legit, but if I do go with Dish would I still get any benefit from NextPVR?
I tried the OTA route but my location makes that impossible.
I have a AVM Fritzbox cable router which provides 4 IPTV devices. Nextpvr finds all four devices correctly. In the past with NextPVR version 6.x scanning for channels worked very well, but now after I had to re-install my server the NextPVR scan fails (version 7.x). The port 8866 is set correctly.
When scanning the German Full Cable Spectrum (6.900MBd SR, QAM 256) the letters [PAT] [PMT] [SDT] [BAT] do appear from time to time and my Fritzbox GUI in parallel displays that a client is watching a certain TV channel, but none of these channels gets stored by NextPVR - so the list remains empty and NextPVR finally shows "0 channels found".
Hi Martin
I had to do some major repairs to the HTPC as it had recently started Crashing to a hard restart or complete lock up.
After a Repair via Windows update and reinstalling the graphics drivers, I thought I would see if Piers was any more stable.
All the plugins updated OK except the NPVR addon which was disabled. After a bit of research I tried the latest artifact NPVR plugin which would not install due to an unavailable dependency (Direct-ffmpeg or something like) Then went back to Omega using my last Disk backup.
I'm sure you are on the case but will Piers be available for NPVR any time soon?
It appears the problem with the HTPC may have been that some time previously the NPVR Plugin switched from Time shift to Live Stream and the latest AMD Drivers were crashing on any small glitch in the stream. (especially now the weather is warming up) Changed to 3 sec Time shift and reverted AMD drivers to 26.3.1 - so far so good
Hello,
I have a channel set up via iptv m3u the stream has three different audio tracks, but in nextpvr I only have one (can't select any) this then also applies to my recordings.
It simply uses track 2 which is the track with audiodescription.
I have a Linux server running NextPVR 6 and a few years ago had it configured to work with my NextCom R50000-HD network encoder and DISH network. I ad to switched to FIOS and have not used the R5000 and am now trying to set it up again. The R500 is working perfectly writing to a QNAP network NFS share. However when acccessing the R5000 from my NextPVR Linux server, the R5000 appears to b writing to the share but it is actually creating a zero byte file. The file is readable and writeable by owner, group, and everyone else (666 permissions). If from the command line as the NextPVR user (currently called sagetv I run the command:
python3 r5000.py START R5ooo-HD 150 /R5000_Recordings/todays_test-on-the-r5000. The opendct.sh file is called by an extra.xml file and the opendct calls an opendct.py script provided by Martin a few years ago.
The file todays_test-on-the-r5000 is created fine and has watchable video.
My opendct.sh file is as follows:
nextname=//R5000_Recordings//$2.ts
I've been beating my head against the wall on this for days now to no avail. Frustrating since it was working the last time I used it bad sadly don't have all the config files from when it was. Since it still works in SageTV it seems like I'm missing something simple, but I can't wrap my head around it. Can anyone point me in the right direction on this.
Hello,
I installed NextPVR on my VPS using docker which worked just fine.
Then I added a new iptv device and imported channles using XC or however it's called.
The login I used has thousand of channels, which might have been too much for nextpvr...
It imported all channels but when I tried to click "save", nothing happened. I closed the setup window and also reloaded the interface page and after some time I saw two iptv devices. One with I think about 16000 channels and one with a little more than 3000 channels. Anyways, thinks have been weird since then: Under "Channels" in the settings page it didn't show me any channels at first, in the "Channels" Tab on the main interface page there where no channels too and when I tried top schedule a recording, no channels where available as well.
I tried deleting my iptv devices, but that didn't work (Ctrl. --> delete did nothing).
Anyways, I removed nextpvr and installed again, but now I can't add a new iptv. The areas ist just blank.
Frustratingly, I discovered last night that my DVR hasn't been working correctly for a few days now, and that the Recordings database has somehow become corrupted. Recordings that I have made in the past have disappeared from both NextPVR and Kodi, new recordings aren't working, the whole nine.
(Oh: Windows 11 PC, NextPVR as the backend, Kodi as the front, HDHomeRun Prime as the tuner. All updated fully.)
On the upside, the file themselves (the .ts, and .xml, and thumbnail and timing for more recent recordings) still exist for everything.
I'm thinking NextTool is the way to go to get my recording database cleaned and rebuilt. Problem is when I ran it the first time (with "nexttool --import <path to my Recordings folder which has no spaces>", and yes, I backed up the NPVR-Data folder first), it appeared to run, and it looks like it may have fixed some things, but it missed some folders in there, which leads me to believe that there is still some corruption in my Recordings database and that I'm best served recreating that from go, especially considering I have all of the proper metadata to do it right.
Other weirdness: the NextPVR web client can't find any files to play back, while Kodi and the NPVR desktop apps play back what it found just fine. It just either didn't find everything in my Recordings folder (even though the logs say they were processed), or there is still DB corruption.
I would rather not blow the whole npvr.db3 out and have to set everything up from scratch. How can I clear out just the recordings DB so that NextTool can rebuild my recordings directory? I am not afraid to go in there with DB Browser if I have instructions as to what to do.
Hi,
I recently upgraded my ageing media server to a Raspberry Pi 5 running Libreelec 12.2.1
I have a Triax TSS400 SAT>IP server which I thought I might be able to us, but it does not show up under the 'Devices' section of the web app.
It appears to be found as seen in the logs, but it does not indicate that it is a 4 channel DVBS2 4 receiver device.
I have had this device running under TVHeadend but found that I to specifically tell TVHeadend that it was a DVBS2-4 device.
I have included a status screen from the Triax showing it receiving TVNZ 1, as well as a specification document all included in the logs archive.
I would be really grateful if you can suggest how I might proceed to get it to work with NextPVR?
Please let me know if you need me to provide any further information.
