I am getting ready to start packaging yauiclient3 and was wondering if anyone wants to test a pre-release version. It is quite different from the previous versions with improved performance and multiple OS support and it will be open source too.
For those that don't know UI clients they give the same great PVR experience as NextPVR.exe on Windows on remote PC's and devices. Up to now these device have been limited to Smart TVs, Windows and Android Roku boxes. With yauiclient 3 many more devices are available. There are test versions for macOS Linux and RPis as well as Windows and even with Windows the performance has improved over previous versions. In the next version of NextPVR, the clients will be much faster on localhost too.
If you like using thumbnails they work exceptionally well on yauiclient 3 and if you don't use them, you might start, they work that well.
One new platform that I feel is really is nice is a LibreELEC 12 and 13 version that allow yauiclient to replace Kodi and provide a true NextPVR appliance capable of not only having a hardware player but the server can be installed. This is working with x64, RPi4 and 5 (3 could work but not client and server), and new aarch64 SoC like the Rockchip 358x SoCs. Kodi is a good client too, but there are many people that prefer the NextPVR interface or just don't like the Kodi look and feel and this provides an alternative. I have tested this on 15+ year old laptops I have setting around and the performance is great, better than on today's RPi5. I had similar findings with sub $100 thin clients so while the RPi5 prices make them almost PC priced, this give a cheap way to add more clients. Using LibreELEC as a base makes it easy to use full MCE or Hauppauge remote too.
A big thanks to artmetz and also to the entire NextPVR pre-release time for getting me to this stage. I have to thank Claude too, I would have struggled to get here without it.
I have resorted to getting epg updates ota but I only get about 11 hours, to work around this nextpvr runs an auto update 2 times a day. I am hoping to run it 3 times a day to cover the gaps but noticed every time it runs it wipes the previous 11 hours.
How can i keep a history of the epg so at least I can see a full day without gaps or if i decide to run the update more frequently.
Gemini tells me add these to my config, but i didn't see any references if this is still valid?
Is there any option to set a default TV channel? I'd like when I go into my epg to be at channel 101 (In UK this is the start of the main Freeview HD channels) rather that at channel 1 which are the SD versions. I know I can renumber channels and make the HD ones first, but as channel lineups change frequently I want as easy a solution as possible so I can just do a rescan and be able to use the rescanned channel list with minimal manual manipulation. Would be great if this was possible, Appreciate any suggestions
Not sure that this sub-forum is the right one for this topic, so mods please move it to a sub-forum where it might fit better.
I have a dedicated offline Windows 10 laptop that I use to watch baseball games on the treadmill (otherwise the experience would be tedious to the point of inducing insanity). For years, I happily recorded games on Windows Media Center and transferred the .WTV files to the laptop via sneakernet. The laptop has a receiver connected for use with the WMC remote.
As Verizon has sunsetted our CableCARDs, this model for viewing will become obsolete once I finish watching the last game recorded via CableCARD. In anticipation of this event, I tried putting .TS files produced by NextPVR (using a Hauppauge HD PVR 2 1512) onto the laptop, to play via VLC. However, I don't have a remote that (to my knowledge) will control VLC, at least not with the granularity that a WMC remote can control WMC (30-second skip forward, 6-second skip back). So I resorted to converting the .TS files into .WTV files so that I could use the WMC remote.
This has worked OK, but there is a nagging visual issue where the WTV video looks choppy: for example, whereas the crawl line on the .TS file flows smoothly, on the .WTV conversion it moves along in little fits. The motion of a batted or pitched baseball looks similarly jerky in comparison to the .TS file.
What, if anything, can I do to mitigate/eliminate this issue? I'm open to solutions that will either (preferably) improve the .WTV output or, barring that, improve the VLC experience (a useful remote?).
In case it makes a difference, for the conversion to .WTV I'm using iDealshare VideoGo, at its highest settings for both video size and video quality.
Hello,
I have been having Nextpvr sort of crash lately. It will crash to the point it will display a black box half screen. I still get audio. I have to exit Nextpvr via task manger then reopen it. I have enclosed pics as well as the logs. I hope we can figure this out.
Thank you,
Bruce
I'm trying to recreate a "Recurring Recordings" list for my custom UI.
If I look at the recurring_recordings table in the DB, I can't see how I would get the channel_OID or the recording type info.
There are some channel_OIDs in the table, but not all. I don't see any recording type info.
I don't know what to cross reference this table with to get the missing data?
I have been using NextPVR for many years with comskip without issue until recently. For some reason when I record one particular program (Alarma TV), comskip does not find any commercials. If I record any other program on the same channel, (or any other channel for that matter) comskip works perfectly. It is just this one program. What makes it even more confusing is that the channel shows a 1 hour version of Alarma TV and a 1/2 hour version of Alarma TV daily, and comskip works properly on the 1/2 hour version but finds NO commercials on the 1 hour version of the same show.
I realize this is likely a comskip problem, however some of the messages in the log make me think it may have something to do with the recording from NextPVR.
I am attaching the log generated by comskip and NextPvr.
If someone could interpret them for me and give me some guidance how to correct this issue.
Thank you
Comskip version 0.82.012
NextPVR version 7.0.5.260307
Windows 11 Pro version 25H2 Build 26200.8328
I am playing with Prismcast, which is a plugin intended for Channels and Plex. It provides various means to interact with video delivered by various websites, such as one associated with one's cable provider. It also creates an emulation of a HDHomeRun tuner. Is there a way to get NextPVR to recognize the emulated tuner? It will scan for tuners and sees my physical ones, but not the emulated one.
Any chance of retrieving air dates of tv shows from online sources to be added to guide information so people know when a show was originally made.
Thanks.
Not sure what is going on, have 4 tuners on this system. Ignore the network drive P is unavailable messages (it's not attached currently)
I will reboot the server...
Art
