Creating a recurring recording are pre-populated with pre-padding & post-padding as default. But when editing the created recording these same two fields are something other than default usually blank, zero, or one. Is this normal?
Using the latest version on Win10 for Freeview (DVD-T in UK). Did a rescan of channels and it trashed all the channel numbers, so when BBC1 was 1, BBC was 2, etc, now they were all over the place. A bit like it used random channels that hadn't previously been in use (so the lowest channel was 8). Worked flawlessly for years, including a few times with the current software version.
Any ideas how to fix it?
I did see a post about increasing ScanDropTime, then found two config.xml files for NPVR. Only C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\config.xml had ScanDropTime (C:\Users\Public\NPVR\config.xml didn't) so I increased it from 3000 to 4000.
I could renumber all 141 manually I guess, but seems a huge amount of work? I could replace the contents of a NPVR directory with a fairly recent backup, if anyone can recommend which directory?
Can anyone help?
If so thanks in advance!
Oh and Happy New Year for a few hours time, or a few hours ago... (delete as appropriate )
I swear there was a thread on this issue somewhere, but I can't find it. I've got a new SiliconDust Flex 4K which is up and running on my network. I can connect to it and view the channels in VLC, but when I scan for devices in NextPVR, the device never shows up. I have two other SD devices (cable card devices) that are fine, but I scanned them quite awhile ago. All of them are running firmware 20221031. I'm running in Docker on a Synology NAS.
I wonder if SD finally fully depreciated the old method of scanning for devices. When I use the SD discovery URL at:
I even tried manually inserting the device into the database. That got the device to show up in the list, but it shows as unavailable. My next thing is to try and write an extra that will just pass the URL for the channel to NextPVR.
I am using V5.1.4.210802 I have not updated past this version due to poor play-skip performance with H264 files on all following versions.
(I am not the only one using this machine and if "SHE" is not happy it is up to me to fix it.) ((But that is another story.))
I want to manually set up a new channel on my Colossus 2 from a set top box where a guide is not available.
This was easy on V4. I may be missing the obvious with V5, but I cannot see a way set up another channel with IR Blaster without having a guide.
I tried editing a channel which is of low importance but could not find a way to edit the blaster channel number.
Do I have to return to V4 to solve this issue.
I use NextPVR to record films from the UK FreeView service and to help with this I have used the 'Films on FreeView' website (https://www.viewfilm.net/) to find out what is being shown in the next couple of weeks. Recently however this web site has not being working due to technical issues being experienced by its provider.
Another source of film listings is the plethora of listings magazines published here in the UK, with The Radio Times probably being the best, if most expensive, of these. For a long time The Radio Times had a section showing all the films being broadcast during the week covered by the publication so it was easy to browse through this section to find any films I wanted to record. Recent changes in the format of The Radio Times have now resulted in the films being listed in each daily section which makes this process a lot more tedious.
I have realised that I have an excellent resource, in the form of the NextPVR EPG, closer to hand which I don't really make the most of. The Guide is populated each day, for me, using the Schedules Direct listings which for the UK are pretty good. I use the basic search facility and occasionally the more advance search features but I wondered if it might be possible to provide something a bit more useful ? Whilst I have a background in programming and databases (it is somewhat rusty and well out of date) I don't 'know' the NextPVR database in any detailed way to be able to put together the searches I might need or to create the pages to publish the results.
I would initially like to be able to search the EPG and list all the films (movies) showing:
- Channel Name/Icon
- Film name and date
- Broadcast start and end date
- Film description / synopsis
- Age classification (in the UK U, PG, 12, 15 etc. but any classification used by SD would be OK)
- Review rating (one to five stars or again any classification used by SD would be OK)
It would be nice to be able to choose to:
- show all occurrences of films held in the EPG
- or to restrict them to unique names as FreeView tends to endless repeat films within a given period on the same or different channels.
From the presented list of films it should be possible to select and record the film(s) using the existing recording selection options.
A future extension of this might be to apply the same selection capabilities to other categories of TV shows e.g. Children's TV, News, Sport, Political (?), Comedy, Documentary etc. depending on what categories are available from the EPG.
I know somebody, somewhere (Sub / Martin ?) will tell me that all this is possible using SQL statements and I would be happy to use this as a trial/starter to prove the functionality if its easy to implement. However it would be so much better if this functionality could be available within the web app so that it is available across the whole breath of NextPVR implementation. This would also appeal to my wife, who has no programming knowledge, so that she could use a 'nice' listing that would subsequently make it easy to choose which film to record. It would also enhance the already great functionality of NextPVR and might appeal to other users too.
I hope this might get some consideration and appear in a version of NextPVR in the not too distant future :-)
Any idea if this is important? I had a few recordings fail and saw this dump file by chance. I am guessing it is an error with the tv tuner not locking signal causing some other issues possibly triggering the dump file. The recordings in question are all on the same frequency so it most likely was just a tuning problem. I am able to lock signal on that frequency now. Below is Windows Problem Details:
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