It's a simple command to output a directory from my NAS.
If I put this command in PostCancel.bat, and execute the batch file directly in windows, it works fine.
If I have it run automatically after canceling a recording it doesn't work.
We were forced off our CableCARD systems this week when Verizon deactivated them without any prior notice that we can find.
Both the technical support guy and the CS rep we spoke to at VZ sounded sincerely apologetic over this. After a pair of long conversations, we opted for their "premium" multi-room service which is said to include two VMS4100 DVRs and one IPC4100 STB; we are told this will give us 2TB of storage to be shared among the three boxes.
Naturally, we're looking to enhance the storage with NextPVR systems, in our case on Windows PCs.
My question to the Forum is: I've been trialing (with success) NextPVR on a system where the video source is an older Arris IPC1100 P2. When I swap out this box for one of the new boxes, how much (if any) reinstallation of software and/or tweaking of NPVR settings can I expect to need to carry out? Hoping it's a matter of disconnecting the 1100 from the Hauppauge HDPVR2, and then simply connecting it to the 4100. The idea is that the HDPVR2 won't notice a difference because it's the same kind of source (HDMI), and that NPVR won't notice a difference since it's communicating with the HDPVR2 which is still there. Something tells me, though, that this scenario may be too optimistic.
Then there is the IR blaster to be placed next to the new STB. This will need to be reprogrammed, won't it?
Apologies if this topic has been discussed already and my search didn't turn it up.
Thanks in advance for any insights, tips, or experience shared.
My computer crashed, c drive had to be replaced and rebuilt, not sure what might be set up differently. I record programmes and edit them down for storage. Last night a couple were recorded - I can watch them in Kodi - but I can't find the files. They're not in the folder that I have set in Recording Directory in Settings in General in NextPVR. I've searched for the files to no avail. There is a database file in Users\Public\NPVR, not sure if that's the files or just a record of them. Help would be appreciated.
NextPVR finds my FRITZ!Box 6490 Cable box just fine and shows all four tuners, but scanning doesn't get me any channels. I have attached logs and also the .ini file I use for the local cable provider. I have created the ini file based on this I believe https://www.kaisanet.fi/app/uploads/2021...ahtien.pdf In the past it found channels just fine, but now nothing I do helps. I have uninstalled the software many times, no luck.
Version: 7.0.5.260307
Ini file is in C:\Program Files\NextPVR\data\tuning\DVB-C
DVB-C part of FRITZ!Box 6490's control panel shows the scan and it shows the channel names when the scan hits the frequency but still nextprv doesn't find it.
Let me start by saying I'm not sure what I'm trying to do is possible?
I am running the Windows version of NPVR, and store my recordings on a Synology NAS.
I have it currently running the Windows version of Comskip and it works OK, so I have some idea how to set that up.
What I would like to do is keep NPVR on Windows, but run Comskip on the NAS.
I just can't figure out how to pass the Windows file path over to the NAS box in the format it's expecting.
I've done quite a bit of reading and have tried many variations to no avail.
I have tried using %1, $1, passing arguments over to a Synology shell script before calling Comskip, etc.
I can go into the NAS and run the shell script manually, and it works.
I just can't figure out how to get my Windows PostProcessing batch file to do it automatically.
If anyone feels they could help I would need specific instructions because I have already tried a lot.
I'm running NextPVR 7.0.5.260307 on Windows and I'm trying to automate the M3U channel update via NScriptHelper, but I keep getting "Not Allowed" (error code 13).
What works fine:
- NScriptHelper.exe -status → returns ok
- NScriptHelper.exe -pin:0000 -service:method=system.epg.update → works fine
- Calling setting.m3u.update manually via the web UI works perfectly
What does NOT work:
- dotnet "C:\Program Files\NextPVR\NScriptHelper.dll" -pin:0000 -service:method=setting.m3u.update → Not Allowed (code 13)
- Same result with NScriptHelper.exe
- Same result with curl and Python requests against the API
I found a similar thread from 2020 (V5) where "sub" fixed this with an updated NShared.dll. It seems the same security restriction is back in V7.
Background: My IPTV provider changes stream URLs every 2-3 days. When this happens, recordings fail until I manually click "Update Channels" in Settings → Devices. I want to automate this so recordings don't fail.
Is there a supported way to trigger setting.m3u.update from a script in V7? Or is there another approach to keep the M3U channels updated automatically?
I recently updated to 7.0.5, I was on 7.0.2 just before the upgrade.
After the upgrade I got a strange error that was stating my EPG file (which is raw XML) was in an unsupported compression and could not be loaded. After a while, I figured out that if I forced my EPG into a .gz compression then the error goes away.
My question is if this is a new requirement or change? In 7.0.2 it was able to use the raw XML file for my EPG listing, maybe I somehow got lucky and it never was supposed to do that.
My LibreElec NextPVR server seems to be working as normal and has done for over a year. I do very occasionally get a blank recording.
The problem seems to have started or at least noticed when channel Quest stopped working working overnight some weeks ago. For some reason the Irish version is called Quest HD but the UK HD version Quest. That was when I found no DVB-S channels were detected when I tried to scan for Quest. My temporary work around is to use the DVB-T SD version of Quest.
After a reboot I have just scanned using the supplied 28.2 file and my smaller regional 28.2West file. I used SAT>IP tuners 2,3 & 4 in turn and no channels detected!
The problem also is that I cannot watch live TV if a DVB-S channel is being recorded!
I can record 2 DVB-S channels at the same time.
I can record DVB-S and DVB-T channel at the same time.
The first Log file was while I tried to watch TV while a DVB-S channel was being recorded. The later log file shows later tests of DVB-T & DVB-S channels so the earlier log may not be needed!
Hi there,
A week or so ago my EPG's started to fail completely. I tried manually refreshing them without luck. I deleted all my sources, still the EPG's would not update. I deleted the /opt/nextpvr directory to restart fresh. Did not seem to work, as after reinstalling it remembered all my login details.
If I open in a browser the URL for the EPG, it takes a long time given the size but loads fine. In the app I use on my phone and my daughter uses on her iPad the EPG loads fine, it is just on next PVR.
Hi, I have a few questions/observations after updating from 4.2.5 to 7.0.5 a couple of weeks ago. (I could do multiple posts, but maybe putting all questions in one creates less noise...)
I've had a look at the wiki but cannot find the answers; the following is all related to running the windows client (win 11), when looking at the TV Guide and selecting a channel to watch.
1) Is there meant to be an OSD? I'm sure I saw it visible once while paused, but it disappeared after resuming or FF'ing. I've never seen it again. Something broken in my setup?
2) Often I pause a live broadcast; sometimes when I resume then FF or RW, after the jump, there is no audio. It is intermittent but usually happens as often as every 4th FF or RW press. It does not seem to be a problem in the stream, as for example I can FF (right arrow) 60s, then left arrow twice to go back, and the audio starts again.
3) Don't know if related to (2) - I was watching a channel which defaults to an audio stream for visually impaired (for other NZ readers - Duke+1). I accidentally changed audio stream to 'disabled', and after sound stopped, changing back to the correct audio stream (ENG or for visually impaired) didn't reactivate the audio. I had to abandon watching that program (and return to the TV Guide and start again), which was bad because I was paused a long way into that program and I missed most of that broadcast.
4) Keys R and F (for 10 sec RW/FF) work same as 4.2.5, cool. But took me a while to realise I now need to hold CTRL with right or left arrows for 60s FF/30s RW. Is there a way to map just arrow keys (without CTRL) to these actions, as I don't know of any other use of arrows during playback?
5) Minor inconvenience - if I watch a channel and then press ESC, I return to the TV Guide. But if I FF or RW while watching, I have to press ESC twice to return to the TV Guide. Expected? (And if I get in the habit of always pressing twice, in the case where the first ESC works, the second press takes me out of the TV Guide and back to the main menu.)
I'll attach a snapshot of my current renders/decoders; this has not changed from my old win10/4.2.5 setup, where I also had older hardware. (I had a Hauppauge HVR-2200 and now have a Hauppauge quadHD.) Happy to update renderers or decoders if people have suggestions for better ones!
