Hi all,
Perhaps this is being worked on for v6, but I'm coming from a mythtv backend and frontend setup that I've wiped and thought I'd try out nextpvr as it looks promising.
However, I've got issues with being able to record or watch livetv. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
I've got three tuner cards (2x DTV1000T Leadtek which worked flawlessly) and another Winfast DTV2000 DS which doesn't scan as well in Myth, but tunes just fine when running.
I've disabled the third tuner for now, but it seems I can't have one tuner running and then record or watch another show at the same time (or listen to the radio stream for that matter). I did think this was doable from what I've read.
I've got a desktop PC with an old intel core2duo cpu and three pci cards for tuners.
Do I need to downgrade (somehow) to v5, or is there a fix for this type of behaviour?
I was also have a few issues with the EPG and scanning but I think I figured that out.
It would be nice to also be able to grab EPG data as soon as the system locks on to a channel. But, I'm just a humble hack, no IT expert.
I was really hoping this would be a nicer setup and less clunky that the mythtv setup I've had for over 15 years, so I'm happy to get logs (if you help me find them) to see if I can iron this out.
I've followed the instructions for setting up permissions for my two external hard drives (mounting them in two folders in my home folder) and running the script to change permissions / groups.
If I restart the pc, it will work fine, but still no dual recordings. Then, at some point it will all fail and i'll need to restart the server / pc.
Otherwise, it looks like a promising service. Regards,
Larry
When I started NextPVR today I noticed that the guide was not showing that the MLB Baseball recording was in progress. I thought maybe the recording didn't happen. It actually was recording but the normal red cell color for a recording wasn't showing in the time slot.
Tried F5 refreshing the browser and tried an "In private" web browser but it still didn't show.
This summer I updated my PVR to NextPVR 5 from 4. Everything has been working pretty well, but the other day I was looking for a show that should have been recorded it wasn't.
I use Kodi for the frontend to NextPVR and while I was checking to see if the show had been scheduled correctly I clicked on the timer tab in Kodi TV and I saw that the show had a conflict marked next to it.
I went looking in the NextPVR web interface but I can't find out where the conflicts are listed. I connected to the PVR and launched the desktop app and the conflicts show up under the Scheduler menu.
Where do I find conflict recording in the web interface?
Also, is there a way to change the priority of scheduled recordings to decide which recording get skipped if there is a conflict?
After many years using version 4 on Windows I am trying to set up the latest version on linux:
AMD Phenom X6, 8GB ram
Linux Mint 21, fresh install
Nvidia Quadro K2200 graphics card
Installed NextPVR using the deb file
The only computer pvr options where I live (no OTA) are Hauppauge devices which have gotten very expensive (and mine are old and cranky) with limited or no linux capability, the HDMI encoder to IP boxes which remain a possibility and run $100 or more, or what I am hoping to do - use a couple of HDMI USB capture cards which cost about $25 on Amazon. Working towards that objective, I compiled ffmpeg with nvenc hardware encoding support. I can display 2 concurrently running windows with the captured streams from ffmpeg to standard output and piped to ffplay.
The next step in testing is to set these up as "extras” devices. Taking small steps at a time I copied the example extras xml and saved it as extras-test.xml in the /opt/var/nextpvr/system/data directory with nextpvr as owner and rights to read write.
That is where I am stuck. Rebooted (many times as I tried things) but on the settings/devices page I only have the default IPTV device listed.
Recording works perfectly fine, but live TV is completely broken. Web front end gives "Streaming failed (transcoder exited)" and the NLite client shows this
No, nothing is recording and the status of the tuners shows they aren't being used. When sitting idled (primed or not primed) both VLC, the web app, the web UI and NLite refuse to stream any content. I noticed this happened after renaming channels and haven't simply just re-scanned the tuner to try resolving it that way, mainly because I don't want to do the work of renaming all the channels all over again. What doesn't make sense is how recording is perfectly fine but live TV just flatout fails.
it seems unrelated, but I'm running NextPVR in a Ubuntu Server VM (hosted by TrueNAS Scale) and some channels are missing EPG. After looking at logs, I found that EPG xml contains Control Characters like SOH or DEL, which is probably an error from the channel, but instead of ignoring bad entries, it ignores all of them.
Hello, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 that after some months has now been running NextPVR (with the help of some external tools)
I was wondering if anyone here has any direct experience upgrading to V 6 on the Pi 3 running Debian Stretch based Raspbian. Will I run into dependency issues if I upgrade?
I do not want to proceed and break my existing install and definitely do not want to reformat my Pi as it runs several other things too. It has taken me long enough to get nexPVR tweaked to run as well as it has been and do not want to start over either.
Having problems setting up channels in LINUX.
Using dual boot PC, checked in Windows and NextPVR finds 77 channels.
When booted to Ubuntu and running NextPVR I only find 14 channels.
Why using the same PC and same tuner do i get different number of channels?
From what I can tell this only started recently when I upgraded NextPVR to versions starting with 6.0 previous versions starting 5.0 the channel count was the same on Windows and Ubuntu.
Log files enclosed.
I schedule one-time and recurring recordings regularly on NextPVR. There is one OTA recording that will not start for some reason. The error I get is:
Code:
2022-10-03 23:34:00.385 [ERROR][8] Unexpected error on LocalRecorder.StartStream(): System.Net.WebException: An error occurred while sending the request. The response ended prematurely.
I have recurring shows successfully recording on this channel regularly. I have tried recurring and one-time scheduling for this show, deleting the directory and making sure the program is removed from the recordings list, but I cannot figure out why I get errors just for this one program.
Unhandled exception has occurred in your application. If you click continue the application will ignore this error and attempt to continue.
Details:
See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.Xml.XmlException: Root element is missing.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseDocumentContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.XmlLoader.Load(XmlDocument doc, XmlReader reader, Boolean preserveWhitespace)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(XmlReader reader)
at System.Xml.XmlDocument.Load(String filename)
at NUtility.Remembered.GetValue(String preferenceName, String defaultValue)
at NextPVR.TV.TVGuide.Activate()
at NUtility.UIController.ActivateScreen(IScreenPlugin screenPlugin)
at NextPVR.Menu.SlideOutMenu.HandleMenuItem(String menuItem)
at NextPVR.Menu.SlideOutMenu.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.Menu.SlideOutMenu.OnClick(PointF location)
at NUtility.UIController.OnClick(PointF location)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.ControllerForm_MouseClick(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseClick(MouseEventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Form.WndProc(Message& m)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)
************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.
I have been annoyed with it, but in general, the program has been working fine in the background, and I could access my files without difficulty.
Going to Localhost, however, didn't always work right. It would often say Cannot connect to Localhost. After some fiddling with things, it would usually take me to the login screen, and all would be fine after that.
Then today, EPG doesn't seem to have been downloaded, and I couldn't ever get to the login screen of Localhost.
I've done some searching here, and I found a suggestion to delete config.xml and npvr.db3. I did, and then I restarted my computer.
It didn't seem to help. Then suddenly the login screen appeared. But alas! all it says now is Login Failed. What happened? What do I need to do? I can't find a place to change password or anything of the sort, assuming that's even the issue.
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