I am looking to move away from Channels DVR as we really don't use TVE much any longer.  And that's the only justification for spending $80/year.  But the one thing it does that I have yet to find elsewhere is, I can add a folder to it to monitor and whenever a new file appears in that folder, it gets added to the list of recordings.  Just as though it were recorded from OTA or TVE sources.

All of this is because I also use Playon Home to pull various shows down locally.  Then Channels sees them in the folder and shows them.  With Playons subscription feature, it's just like scheduling a recording.

Can NPVR do this?  Or have another way to get to the same place?

I bought a new computer and have installed the software.  When I go to add the folder that my recordings are in, I do not have a choice to select it.  There are only folder that are on the desktop.  Any ideas???

There seems to be a pretty good $100 deal on the TabloTV here  https://www.gettablo.com/  for those North Americans wanting to explore OTA You get a dual tuner ATSC that works with NextPVR with basically a free OTA antenna and a good return policy if it doesn't work for you. 

The advantage for NextPVR users is the audio and video is transcoded so it plays directly in the browser and some other platfroms without transcoding.  The h264 video also is compressed so takes less space then tranditional mpeg2video.    The downside to these devices is they don't currently play the mpeg4 video available in a few markets.  They advertise free guide data but note that is only 24 hours.

I know many of you are considering ATSC 3.0 but do note that more an more standard network stations are turning on DRM so buyer beware.

Martin

Has anyone been able to successfully use Vidimport with Ver 5/6?
I think there may be some hard-coded references in the program that are no longer valid.

I have 2 nextpvr servers - one at port 8866 and the other at 8867.  I sideloaded uidroid on my fireTV stick and I would like to be able to select the which server to watch. 

I have a similar setup on a windows PC and I can speciify which one by the command start nlite -server:192.168.1.14:8866:0000 or start nlite -server:192.168.1.16:8867:0000

any way to do this with uidroid.   I couldn't seem to find any sort of config file (using adblink)

Is this possible?

OK, I've been using NEXTPVR for over 10 years.  I'm using Schedules Direct for the guide.  I use a Hauppauge Colossus 2 tuner via Verizon FIOS box.  It all works.  Only thing is, I cannot figure out how to add a new channel to the guide.  I somehow got it in there using the wrench in settings>channels, but the haupblast channel number is not correct.  I used to be able to fix this stuff in the desktop app, but it just takes me to the web app.  I know this is likely something stupid, but I need to know how to add a channel to the guide.

I have been using NextPVR since 2018 without any problems. I have a four channel Hauppauge tuner. About two weeks ago I upgraded to version 6.1.1.221106 and ever since about 1 in 4 recordings fails. The failures take on two forms.
1) For some reason in the middle of the recording the channel changes to a different channel. This problem is rare and only happened a couple of times.
2) The recording just stops for no reason what so ever. It appears that this one happens after the pre-pad time expires, right about the time the show actually starts. This happened again yesterday and last night to 'Midsomer Murders'.
Please help

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if I reset the pc on the next boot nextpvr consumes all ram when I watch a channel. it saturates all ramm till stucking the pc

There are a number of times when my recordings do not play back correctly through the browser or through the Kodi interface.

I can play them fine through VLC on my PC.

In order to fix them, I can run them through a program I found called TS-Doctor which finds errors and they become watchable. I remember when I used to use Beyond TV there was a program that would take new records and cut commercials, fixed the files, or compressed them.

I could be mistaken because it has been a long time but are there any add-ons that might be able to assist me with this issue after a recording is made?

Is there a keyboard shortcut to access the Scheduler selection in the main menu of the desktop app?