I have had a number of failed recordings for a few days and I have finally found the cause. One of my three tuners was stuck in some state that rendered it nonfunctional. The logs have this to say:
If the "state" that this tuner is stuck in is in some way possible to recover from, that would be the best solution. Maybe some sort of "reset" via the BDA API? I had to reboot the machine to get the tuner working again, restarting the NRecord service did not help.
If that is not possible, i. e. the problems are due to driver bugs with my Terratec card and no fault of NPVR, then a better error handling would be appreciated. The above logs indicates at least two error that could be captured and handled:
2010-11-27 09:08:31.530 [ERROR][7] ConnectFilters:Failed(2)
and
2010-11-27 09:08:31.562 [DEBUG][7] Unexpected error on DVB-T put_TunerRequest: 0x8000FFFF
My suggestion for how to handle is to capture the error, maybe retry the procedure and if still not working, flag the tuner as nonfunctional and try another tuner. The nonfunctional state should at least be written to the logs and preferably be presented in the GUI as well. Maybe in the Recordings list?
The situation now is that the recordings fails silently without any error indication. The resulting recording is zero bytes. If I had known I could have taken precations. Luckily there are re-runs
I'm using a PCH for my client. When I'm in the TV Listing, if I press the "Fwd" button, the guide moves one page (of time) forward. However, when I press the "Rew" button, the grid erases, but then just redraws with the same time-period and program listings. Moving forward and backward a day at a time works just fine. And moving forward and backware with the arrow buttons works just fine, too.
Thank you so much for porting TV Listings and TV Recordings to npvr. I've really been missing them!
If you are working on TV Recordings, I'd like to suggest that you consider adding a little bit of new functionality:
When a specific recording is selected, have it so that pressing the green button on the remote would toggle a green dot on and off, pressing the yellow button on the remote would toggle a yellow dot on and off, and pressing the blue button on the remote would toggle a blue dot on and off. In our household, we have multiple people watching the recordings often at different times. We would love to have a way for "the system" to indicate when each of us have watched a recording so that it can be deleted. As has been discussed elsewhere, trying to have it automatically detect and record this information is quite prolematic. However, a simple system where we would just manually toggle our assigned colored dot on once we've watched a recording would work quite nicely, I believe.
I would like to launch NextPVR directly to Live TV mode on a channel. I have already tried to set the UI Mode to TV Viewer but channel won't start until I right click and select Live TV. Maybe I can fix that through command line or whatsoever?
Hi,
I'm pretty new to N-PVR. Trying to set up the npvr for the first time. In the DEVICES tab, my tuner is listed as Type: ATSC, Device: U3100mini ATSC Tuner. I'm using Comcast cable. Scan process takes several minutes and no (zero) channels are found.
What am I missing ? Should the device be listed as QAM for it to work ?
The reason I ask is I would like update an external media database (NMJ for the 200 series PCH's) but I might run into a problem after a file is renamed by another utility from show_date to show_subtitle_S#E# Does Postconversion (if it exists) pass the changed name?
If not would it be possible to have the SCHEDULED_RECORDING oid added as parameters to Parallel/Post Processing batch files?
I have seen several posts where people have written they have no problem with EVR but don't want to use it. I have used EVR since sub introduced it and I think it works really well. I don't understand the concern what is the downside to using something that works?
Was set up this evening to record three overlapping shows.
Pre-padding set to 1 minute and post padding to 2 minutes. (times are for the show, excluding padding).
Two tuners available for all channels involved.
Pre-padding for (3) is missing (as is the start of the show ;( )
(1) 2000-2100 Beenys restoration..... Channel4, freq 69000
(2) 2030-2100 Traffic cops BBC 1 546000
(3) 2100-2130 Have I got news for you BBC 1 546000
(1) started a couple of minutes late because of me and finished at the expected time, including post padding.
(2) started and stopped at the expected time including pre and post padding.
(3) started at 2100 with no prepadding - (show is still on so still recording.
(2) has the start of (3) at the end of it -as expected due to post padding, showing simultaneous recording works.
