I'm running a Digital Devices OctopusNet SAT>IP receiver for DVB-T2 on a Panasonic TV via network. This works well for over 5 years now.
Currenty setting up a NextPVR instance. Looking at devices I got 4 DVB-T, 4 sat and 4 DVB-C devices. This is ok since all 4 tuner can receive terrestial, sat and cable signals.
Scanning a DVB-T tuner for channels reports 0 channels found. Running a scan on OctopusNet revealed 60 channels.
Looking at the logs there are scann requests like
logs/nrecord.log:2025-11-28 11:36:56.657 [DEBUG][17] About to scan: rtsp://192.168.178.10:554/?freq=490&msys=dvbt&bw=8&pids=0,16,17
I've got an m3u list for VLC that works. For the frequency above it contains
Intermittently, playback of both live broadcast or recording will exhibit slowed and garbled audio, then pixellation and freezing. Problem corresponds to approximately 11/25/2025 18:24 in the attached logs.
I have 2 IP TV sources and 4 OTA sources. Both have channel 4.1 mapped and merged so channel 4.1 shows that it has 6 sources.
The 2 IP TV sources are at the top of the list under devices.
When I tune to 4.1 it is using the OTA tuner.
I can force it to use the 2 IP TV sources, but as soon as I reboot it reverts back to using the HDHomeRun Quadro OTA tuner.
What am I doing wrong? OTA works 95% of the time, but more and more lately I am ending up with corruption in the recorded files so I want to default to the IP TV streams unless I need more than 2 recordings at the same time.
I have been using Nextpvr for many years to record TV for later viewing.
I have now completely 'cut the cord' and rely solely on iptv m3u8 playlists.
since my internet connection can handle it, i have 5 tuners set up each with the same playlist....
this works really well. it allows for 4 parallel recordings, as well as any random epg update should it happen while im recording 4 shows at once...
(sometimes if i'm watching tv in another room, recordings fail, but thats another story.)
from time to time, the m3u8 playlists are updates, which means i need to refresh them in nextpvr....
really dumb question, and i suspect i already sorta know the answer....
do i have to update the channels for each tuner, or would i get away with just one?
I am using NextPVR in a Docker environment and would like to access the recording.list API method automatically. Currently, this is only possible with a valid session, which makes automated access difficult.
Feature request:
Please allow specific devices or IP addresses to access the API without additional authentication, or alternatively provide a permanent API token for a device.
Purpose:
To query recording status for monitoring or similar automation tasks
Windows Media Center (we are impending refugees from it) has a screensaver feature by which, if you leave WMC on a static image in full-screen mode for a certain amount of time, the screensaver kicks in and starts showing (for example) images from the Pictures folder. This happens whether you were watching a recorded program and put it on pause, or were displaying the list of recorded programs (nothing actually playing) on the screen.
I see that NextPVR has what looks like an analogous feature, which can be accessed from the .exe client UI by right-clicking anywhere in the NPVR window, then selecting Settings --> General and choosing one of the available options next to "Screen Saver."
However, thus far I have not gotten this feature to work as expected. I've tried this on two different PCs with NPVR. The default time for the screensaver to kick in is 10 minutes. If I pause a recorded show with NPVR in fullscreen mode and then check it 15, 20, 55 minutes later, the paused image is still showing -- no screensaver goes into action.
I've tried several of the options listed in the dropdown menu (CutOut,FixedImage, None, Blank) and they haven't affected this behavior. On one of the NPVR systems, the screensaver selection remains unchanged from what I set it to (to no apparent benefit), but on the other system the selection reverts to FixedImage no matter which one I'd picked.
Additional data point: Just finished testing this on the second one of the above NPVR machines. What I described does occur if NPVR is left paused on a show; but if left on a list of recorded programs, then Windows's own screensaver eventually launches.
How do I get NPVR to use the screensaver chosen in its settings menu and at the selected time?
Hello, I actually have two questions about the Apple ipadOS and TV apps I recently downloaded.
1) With both the ipadOS and Apple TV apps, when watching a recorded program, is the work of transcoding (or processing or whatever the correct term is) the video being done by the processor on the Apple device, or is it being done on the device where the NextPVR server is located (in my case a linux device on my network)?
2) In the NextPVR client app I just put on my Apple TV (3rd gen with version 26.1 of the OS), when I am looking at the TV guide, I cannot figure out how to change the day/date to look at the schedule for days in the future. On the ipadOS version I can tap on the current day's date and it gives me a drop down of the future dates for my selection, but I can't figure out how to do the same thing in the app on the Apple TV. I'm using the Apple remote that comes with the device.
I have TBS 6281SE v2 + unraid + docker nextpvr, my tuners are detected properly but when I go to scan channels nothing is detected, it shows
>>> Scanning 546000000
but nothing is detected, same machine, same card in Windows nextpvr works fine. I tried to copy npvr.db3 from windows data and then I got channels there but it does not work so I'm attaching logs, maybe you can help me with this.
I tried to scan inside docker:
./DeviceHostLinux -device:adapter0 -type: DVB-T -scan:/usr/share/dvb/dvb-t/hr-All
Partial output (not sure if this meas it found something or not):
My current setup - I have an internal wifi network (downstairs) provided by my cable broadband router, upstairs a wifi repeater which connects (via wifi) to the router downstairs and has a hard wired connection to an 8 port hub which connects to my desktop and my npvr server (and other stuff). Downstairs, UiDroid is installed on a "generic" Android box connected to my TV HDMI and it connects to my npvr server using its own internal wifi (it's not hard wired to the router) and it simply finds the server somehow (general scan of any device with port 8866 open?).
Reason for asking - my new-ish server has an M.2 slot specifically for a wifi card and I'd like to install one and setup a hotspot and have the Android box connect directly instead of going through the general wifi network provided by the cable router and upstairs wifi repeater.
