SOLVED: my bad - it is mentioned at the bottom of the install guide wiki - my HDHomeRun needed hdhomerun_config - I think its in a 'yay' package called 'libhdhomerun' but I just built it manually and dumped the binary and library in the NEXTPVR directory.
I've had 6.0.0.220904 running happily on my Raspberry Pi 4 under the standard Rasberry Pi OS Bullseye (64 bit) - talking to a HDHomeRun tuner receiving UK Freeview and the OTA EPG. That was straightforward using the .deb helper.
Because that's just too simple, I'm now trying to install NPVR manually on the same hardware running Arch Linux (actually rAudio 1 - an audio player distro - because it looked easier than getting rAudio running under Raspbian) and I'm 99% of the way there: it's all running & playing video - apart from the EPG.
I'm not getting the option of "DVB/ATSC EPG" as the EPG source when I scan for channels. Instead, it's offering "Freesat (UK)" - which obviously doesn't work.
Not seeing any errors in the log - it's just only sending freesat as the option.
Any idea what could be missing to prevent that option appearing?
I installed the dtv-scan-tables-git package and got libdvbv5 from v4l-utils.
I think that the one dependency I'm missing is 'dvb-tools' which doesn't exist as such on Arch/Arm (there's a couple of dead 'dvb-utils' packages) - but before I embark on trying to build those manually it would be good to confirm that's what is missing.
Hi folks,
Two days ago, IPTV recordings stopped working on three local TVNZ-provided streams, although not on others - I was getting "403" errors in my Kodi Shield client. When I checked, live viewing in NPVR Windows via the web app on the NPVR machine itself, I am getting errors like "Streaming Failed (transcoder exited)" or "Failed to start requested stream" or (just now, in v6) "No tuner was available for the requested channel". Rebooting did not help.
I assume the issue is with mjh's m3u8 files so went to inspect/refresh the setup in NPVR via its localhost web interface. NB: I noticed there was no login request when I went there.
And: when I went to the Settings page on the web app, there was no settings submenu down the left as there had been previously. Just the Paypal, logs and other stuff in the main body.
So, since I'd been on an older v5 version for a while, I updated to v6 to see if that fixed things.
But: same problem, no Settings menu. This is even after using Ctrl+F5 and also clearing the Chrome cache via its own settings menu, exiting Chrome etc. So I just can't seem to defeat the cache problem.
Not to worry though - I tried Firefox which I almost never use for NPVR and it clearly didn't have a caching issue. But for the life of me, I can't detect what the problem is with streaming the TVNZ channels. For example,https://i.mjh.nz/nz/tv.9.m3u8plays just fine in VLC on the same machine, but NextPVR gave the "no tuner" error above when I tried it. As I noted above, all other streams I tried (e.g. non-TVNZ channels; radio) worked fine.
I'll try another system reboot now to see if that solves the Settings UI/cache issue in Chrome.
But attached are the logs (older ones v5, newer v6) in case my original/primary TVNZ streaming problem is somehow apparent from them.
After some help with a specific channel not being found during scan, I have been playing with it for a bit and can't seem to find a way to get it to work.
NextPVR successfully picks up all normal TV channels and works fine, does a great job. The channel it is not finding is a customer channel created for CCTV in an apartment block.
If I connect the cable to the TV and scan, it finds this custom channel and I can obtain the attached information from the TV options (see image)
Frequency (KHZ) 571500
Service ID 777
Network ID 1009
When I connect the cable to my Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD and scan it finds everything exactly the same as the TV except for this channel, searching for a way to manually add a channel it seems this isn't possible and not the preferred method.
Attached are my logs from a scan of All Countries / All Regions kicked off at 11:07
Is there a way to increase the timeout for tuning a channel?
I am using HLS-Proxy before NextPVR and it takes a bit of time for the HLS-Proxy box to tune the IPTV channel. NextPVR times out before the feed gets to it.
I am interested in adding a second ir blaster with separate software to my server and stumbled upon the Proximis PIR-1. This blaster uses girder and I am wondering how to integrate girder with nextpvr for ir blasting. What is the command and arguments. Thanks.
Can not view programs from the Menu,TV Guide. Can record programs from the Menu,TV guide and then watch the recordering.
Have reinstalled NextPVR several times from scratch, but still unable to view TV Guide programs without first recording them.
Log attached.
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I've been meaning to post these for, well, a long time. Not biggies but annoyances. Both in the Web App, running on Edge. Now running V6 but issues in V5 also.
1. Programmes starting with digits are not found unless the digits are omitted from the search string:
so "9/11: 102 Minutes That Changed the World" will not be found if searching for "9/11" or any string starting with that, but "minutes that changed the world" will find it.
This has been an issue for several years for me.
2. When displaying the recording settings from the schedular list the Directory does not always reflect the setting for the recording. I am not sure if it is showing the default or the last edited entry, but whichever recording I choose the displayed value is always the same, unless I change it. Hope that makes sense.
I've also just found a similar issue affecting the edit dialog on a manual recording. The Channel drop down does not reflect the value set for the recording.
Thanks for an amazingly useful application and the time and effort that is put into it.
I was away for a few days and expected a couple baseball games to have recorded in my absence. What I found was that I have no recordings scheduled at all where they should be around 40. Instead, all the previously scheduled recordings are showing as conflicts. I'm kind of in panic mode with the baseball post season and the new fall TV season coming soon.
I recently installed Express VPN on the PC, which probably has something to do with the issue. I uninstalled the VPN, but the issues with the recordings remain.
Live TV works fine.
Any idea how I can get the recorder and scheduler fixed and remove the conflicts? If nothing else, I'd be OK just getting it working, even if it means setting up my scheduled records again.
I’m having trouble adding a Schedules Direct channel lineup to my list of sources. I tried adding it in NextPVR and got the list of possible lineup choices but when I try to add the chosen lineup I keep getting, “localhost:8866 says undefined”. The localhost:8866 looks like a port setting but I don’t know what “undefined is indicating or what to do to get things working. (Using the latest version, 6.0, of NextPVR)
I have the latest NPVR version running on Windows 10 version 21H2. I have two Hauppague tuners connected to my PC, a Win-TV HVR-950 and a WinTV-Dual HD. Both are using the latest drivers from Hauppauge. The problem I have is that NPVR is somehow leaving the WinTV-Dual HD tuner active while not actually recording anything (both lights on the tuner are left on - power on and recording). From the attached picture, you can see that NPVR knows the tuner exists, but something (Windows?) has removed it from the Device Manager's sound and video devices.
I checked the Events app and an Error number 1000 is recorded for NPVR. The show that was scheduled to record actually did record, but I think NPVR switched tuners to accomplish that. I tried to save all the NPVR log files while nothing was being recorded per the Backend Status window of the tray app, but two log files were active so 7-Zip may not have saved those properly.
I really only know when this happens because usually a scheduled recording is missed without prior notification that something is wrong with NPVR or the tuners. I hope this issue can be addressed. Thanks
