I installed the latest Nextpvr using the deb package on a Rasp Pi which already runs OpenVPN.
The Pi is running without GUI.
The installation completed successfully however I was unable to access the configuration web page using the v4 ip address. The nextpvr service is running on the Pi however netstat showed only port 8866 open on tcp6.
Using the v6 ip address I was able to access the configuration page and continued to setup IPTV. This successfully setup the channels and the EPG but live streaming sat at a black screen.
Assuming the v6 IP was an issue, I uninstalled nextpvr and disabled IPv6 on the PI and performed a reinstall.
Surprisingly port 8866 is still showing open only on tcp6 and I have no access to the configuration page as IPv6 is disabled.
Any help with this issue would be gratefully received.
I've been using NPVR for many years (thank you!) and in particular in the past couple of years I have been successfully watching a long (100min) TV show each day while it airs, but starting late, by playing a recording that NPVR is doing. This means I can then (manually) skip the ad breaks and gradually catch up to live during the airing.
However, since I upgraded to version 6.0.0 (220904), this scenario is proving almost impossible. It seems like there might be a bug in the Windows NextPVR.exe client application which breaks the progress bar and the ability to skip through the TV show accurately, if the show is still recording when you start watching it.
Skipping forward by 1min or 10sec (or whatever the ⏩⏭️ buttons should be doing) instead jumps forward by a seemingly random and large amount, often going right to the end of the current recording and stopping playback.
From what I have figured out over a few weeks of this, I think the problem arises when you try to skip past the point the recording had reached when you started playing it. For instance, if the show started recording at 12.30 and I started watching it at 13.00, I could skip ahead past a 12.45 ad break without any trouble, but trying to skip ahead past a 13.05 ad break would see the skip button leap straight to the end of the current recording, or at least substantially towards it.
Similarly, you can normally click around in the green progress bar at the bottom to jump to a particular time, but this is also not working properly at all in this scenario (watching while recording). Clicking it does skip but it could be in either direction, to any position on the bar, and again may make the playback stop if it goes to the end. I haven't managed to work out what's going on with this but I think it is related to the timing issue implied by the skip buttons problem.
As I say I think this was introduced in version 6.0.0 (220904) so if you are able to resolve it in a future release that would be great. I'd be happy to help diagnose further if I can. The show I'm recording is in HD on a UK channel if that is relevant.
Posted by: smiffypr - 2022-10-10, 07:49 PM - Forum: Windows
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I've been away for a few days, and I've got no new HD recordings, so I looked at the EPG, and I've got no listings for any HD channels.
I'm on Windows 10, in the UK, using one DVB-T dual tuner for SD channels only and another DVB-T2 dual tuner for SD and HD channels. The device priority is to use the T tuners first (if the channel is available on them) so SD recordings don't use the T2 tuners unless they need to. I have recently updated from V4 to V6.0.0.220904.
When I initiated an EPG update, the NextPVR Backend Status window sometimes showed something against the first tuner (SD only) so I thought that must be the problem. I tried disabling the SD tuners and tried changing the priorities, still no EPG for HD.
I though that before I collect logs etc I would reboot the machine, lo and behold, the EPG is updating all channels and the status window is showing nothing while it is doing it.
The pending recordings list (and some others) reposition to the start of the list after cancelling (or adding) a recording. Can be tedious if in the middle of the list of a couple hundred items. Other lists also revert to the start of the list after changes.
Extend the regular expression used to ignore "the" and other specified strings, to additional/all listings.
I went to upgrade to 22.04 on my HTCP and performed a fresh install. I see the version of NextPVR has updated from what I understand and I don't get nearly the same amount of channels.
Is version 5 still available? I love the product and realize a lot has changed with the new LTS releases. I will happily go back to 20.04 and NextPVR version 5 if possible.
Recently there have been issues for many SiliconDust users with server API"s which have been temporarily reverted but it appears that all users have until the end of 2022 to upgrade an unreleased version after sub changes v6 to a newer discovery protocol. I am not sure of the impact on v4 but sub will need to comment. Both will work for the short term.
For short term mitigation, if you don't add new devices, or change IP's and are happy with your setup I recommend that v5 or v6 change the general setting to not to scan tuners on startup.
Here are two very relevant quotes from the SiliconDust forum.
Quote:The cloud assisted discover API was deprecated a while back and will be removed completely at the end of 2022.
Note that it will likely be useless before then as HDHomeRun tuners upgrade to IPv6.
Quote:I have restored the LocalIP value and I have restored the forced-ipv4 handling so it should should be back working for the moment. Please note however that this discovery mechanism is deprecated and will only return HDHomeRun devices that connected to the guide server using IPv4. Starting with the next beta release all gen5 and newer models will support connecting via IPv6 and if they connect via IPv6 they will not show up in this deprecated discover API.
Don't shoot the messenger, if you have comments direct them to the SiliconDust forum.
Get some points where regardless of if it’s the iOS app (phone iPad) or Apple TV’s, I get to the choose server screen and choose the server and it crashes.
It was fine earlier today and now I’m having issues . I wonder if related to having just updated the guide or a channel/show icon causing a crash.
But no way of diagnosing as if gets nowhere near a usable screen.
I have 2 computers running NextPVR version 6, both worked normally until 2 days ago.
Currently, one is normal, but the other will not show the Devices. I have looked through all the posts and see other folks have similar problems, but I can not find a way to get the Devices to show up.
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